This is a budget-friendly and easy-to-make frozen meal prep bento box featuring pork piccata and two side dishes, made with thinly sliced pork. It's perfect for busy days as you can heat it up in the microwave and eat it right away. Here's how to make a well-balanced bento that's both delicious and convenient.
Ingredients
Main Ingredients (5 servings)
- Komatsuna (Japanese Mustard Spinach) 200g (1 bag)
- Potato 100g (1 medium)
- Shimeji Mushrooms 100g (1/2 bunch)
- Thinly sliced pork 300g
- All-purpose flour 1 tbsp
- Egg 1
- Cooked rice (approx. 450g) for 3 servings
- Toasted sesame seeds (to taste)
- All-purpose flour (for dusting, as needed)
Seasonings
- [A] Butter 10g
- [A] Soy Sauce 2 tsp
- [A] Sugar 1 tsp
- [B] Soy Sauce 2 tsp
- [B] Sugar 1 tsp
- [C] Cooking Sake (Rice Wine) 2 tbsp
- [C] Granulated Consomme 1 tsp
Steps
- Place cooked rice for 3 servings into a freezer-safe food container.
- Place the lid on at an angle and let the rice cool down.
- Trim the root ends of Komatsuna (Japanese Mustard Spinach) 200g (1 bag) and cut into 2cm wide pieces.
- Peel the skin off the Potato 100g (1 medium) and remove any eyes.
- Cut the potato into 1cm cubes.
- Trim the hard base of the Shimeji Mushrooms 100g (1/2 bunch) and separate into small clusters.
- Finely chop the Thinly sliced pork 300g into 1cm wide pieces.
- Gently mix the chopped pork with Cooking Sake (Rice Wine) 2 tbsp, All-purpose flour 1 tbsp, and Granulated Consomme 1 tsp. *Tip: Mixing in sake and flour helps the pork hold its shape and results in a moist and tender texture.*
- Divide the pork into 15 portions and shape them into rounds.
- Dust the pork with All-purpose flour (for dusting), shaping them into flat rounds. *Tip: Shaping them into flat rounds ensures a neat appearance. Using a binder keeps the pork tender even after reheating.*
- Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
- Dip the pork pieces into the beaten Egg 1 and place them in the hot frying pan.
- Cook until the bottom is browned.
- Once browned, flip the pork pieces over.
- Cover with a lid and steam-braise over low to medium heat for 2 minutes.
- Remove the pork from the pan and let it cool down.
- Clean the frying pan, add oil, and heat over medium heat.
- Add the potatoes and stir-fry until cooked through.
- Once the potatoes are translucent, add the shimeji mushrooms and stir-fry until cooked.
- When cooked and softened, add Soy Sauce 2 tsp and Sugar 1 tsp, and stir-fry until the liquid has evaporated.
- Remove the potato and mushroom stir-fry from the pan and let it cool down.
- In the same frying pan, melt Butter 10g and add the komatsuna stems. Stir-fry until tender.
- Add the komatsuna leaves and stir-fry together.
- Once the leaves have wilted, add Soy Sauce 2 tsp and Sugar 1 tsp, and stir-fry until the liquid has evaporated.
- Remove the komatsuna stir-fry from the pan and let it cool down.
- Once the side dishes and rice have cooled, place the potato and mushroom stir-fry and the komatsuna stir-fry in one half of the food container.
- Place 3 pieces of pork piccata in the other half.
- Sprinkle Toasted sesame seeds (to taste) over the stir-fried vegetables.
- Cover with a lid and freeze. Consume within 3 weeks.
- Place the lid on at an angle or cover with plastic wrap, and microwave at 600W for about 5 minutes to reheat.






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