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Stuff the cooked rice into the storebought inarizushi skins.
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Use a spoon to shape the rice into a ball when stuffing it inside.
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3
Flip the ffilled inarizushi over, and form it into a round shape while smoothing out the crease.
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4
Push in and smooth the corners too so that you don't notice them much.
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5
Stack 2 unfilled inarizushi skins on top of each other, and slice them diagonally.
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6
Only use the side halves that have 2 square corners.
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7
(On the left side in the photo.)
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8
Stuff rice into the halved inarizushi skins from Step 3.
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9
Fold each of the corners into the back.
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Place the filled inarizushi in a bento box so that the open side of the Step 2 inarizushi is covered by the two Step 5 triangular inarizushi.
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11
Make the parts for the face.
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12
Cut out 2 circles of sliced cheese using a circular cutter.
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Cut out an oval shape from the sliced cheese that is bigger than the circles from Step 7.
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You can slightly shift the circular cutter, and make a second cut to make an oval.
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Place the cheese from Steps 7 and 8 onto the inarizushi from Step 6, and secure with small pieces of pasta.
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Stick the pasta into areas that will be covered by the face parts.
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17
Make the facial features out of nori seaweed.
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18
I only used a nori punch for the eyes.
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I cut the rest with scissors.
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Using a thin juice box straw, cut out 2 circles from the sliced cheese to add a sparkle to the eyes, and it's done.
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You can use mayonnaise instead for this.