Meatball Bear Bento

Posting today's bentos a little late today. IT is off early for School, so I could not post at my usual timing. Taking the chance to post, while they are taking dinner and catching their favourite cartoon now. Then, we'll be off again to IT's School for Mid-Autumn celebrations.


Shaped meatballs into bears for today. :)


For lunch, they had pasta cooked aglio olio style, meatballs, broccoli, grapes and strawberries.


I packed pasta for their snack boxes too.


Bear holding onto candy. :)


Chicken carbonara for dinner on Wednesday. I wanted to share the recipe but had no time then, so am posting this today instead. Fast one dish meal, recipe below. :)

CHICKEN CARBONARA RECIPE

Ingredients: 
Serves 4
300g pasta of your preference (I'm using fettuccine here)
2 chicken breast
1 tbsp soya sauce
pinch of salt
1 tsp cornflour
2 tbsp minced garlic
1 egg
100ml heavy cooking cream
5 slices of bacon
half a broccoli
3 tbsp grated parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Slice chicken breast into small pieces, marinade with soya sauce, pinch of salt and cornflour. Leave aside for at least 10 minutes.
2. Chop broccoli into small pieces, blanch and set aside.
3. Cut bacon into small pieces, fry till brown.Set aside.
4. Add a little olive oil, when heated up, add garlic, stir fry for a while and add chicken pieces, stir fry till no longer pink. Dish out and set aside.
5. Whisk egg with cream and pinch of salt, set aside.
6. Cook pasta according to package instructions.
7. Once pasta is cooked, drain and keep around 1/3 of the water.
8. Add the cream mixture from step 5. Mix well. This has to be done once the pasta is cooked, the piping hot pasta will cook the egg.
9. Toss in the chicken, bacon and broccoli.

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