＜Itadaki bento＞（By rice cooker）

■Itadaki
【Ingredients】
2 cups rice
6 sheets Abura-agé/deep-fried bean curd sheet
1/3 carrot
1/2 burdock root
1 sheet dried kelp
Seasoning:
1 tablespoon Japanese broth granule
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon Japanese sake
4+1/2 tablespoon sugar
300 cc water

【Directions】
1. Rinse the rice and rain it in a colander.
2. Mix seasonings in a bowl. Add dried kelp.
3. Rove a chopstick over Abura-agé and cut them in half.
4. Chop carrot and burdock root finely.
5. Mix 1 and 4 in a bowl.
6. Fill 3 with 5. Close the cut-off edge by a toothpick.
7. Put the kelp in 2 at the bottom of the rice cooker and place 6 on it.
8. Add the remaining liquid of 2 and cook.

【Garnish 】
sausage
egg
Ohba/Japanese sweet basil
red cabbage
broccoli
potato salad
carrot