I need help with coloring my bento rice...any help?

That title is actually misleading. I've never colored my bento rice, it's all been white because I'm wary about mixing color in. I've heard that either food coloring or colored foods like carrots work fine, but I'm not sure how to mix it into the rice without letting the rice lose its stickiness.


Any bento experts out there want to help me out?|||Coloring rice will not cause the rice to lose it's stickiness. Coloring rice is very easy, but tricky. Using food coloring is the easiest and best way to get a desired color. You simply add more or less color to make your desired color.





If you use foods to color, remember that the rice will take up the flavor of whatever you are using for coloring. And, unless you use something like beet juice, your colors will be very light. Simply adjust your rice cooking water for the volume of color liquid. In other words, if you use 16 oz. of water to cook your rice and want to add a teaspoons of color, even it out by taking out a teaspoon of cooking water.





|||It's pretty easy. Just boil the rice with food coloring. If you use carrots, just slice them up really tiny and cook it in the rice. You can use corn and frozen mixed veggies too. Just add them towards the end while the rice is still super wet. I've always cooked the rice with the spices while it's cooking in the pot. Once it's done, open the lid and let it dry a little then you can mold it to whatever you want to.|||In the Asian section of the supermarket,look for bonito flakes. It come packaged in red or green. This is also used in the center of the maki sushi (the long one rolled in nori(seaweed).|||You can use tumeric or saffron|||sazon its in the spice isle of the grocery store