Do you like the combination of sweet, savoury and beef? Then mix that all with rice and you have this Pepper Lunch inspired ’all done in a rice cooker’. Arguably our easiest one pot meal that requires very little effort but gives maximum results.
Add rice to to your rice cooker bowl.
Add soy sauce, honey, garlic, black pepper, mirin and ginger. Stir to combine and level out the rice.
Layer on sliced onions, corn (optional red pepper) and the beef slices. Top with more freshly ground black pepper.
Fill with water to the SHORT GRAIN water level 1 cup line.
Select SHORT GRAIN or REGULAR cooking function and then press START.
Once rice cooker is finished cooking, open the lid. Add butter, spring onions and sesame seeds. Immediately stir to combine, allowing butter to melt into the rice.
Scoop your completed ’Pepper Lunch’ onto plates and serve immediately. Garnish with some leftover spring onion and sesame seeds.
Ingredients

BETTER WITH CHAR
This dish tastes better if you can get a slight char on the rice. This is difficult to achieve in only a rice cooker but if your cooker has a CRUST or CLAYPOT setting then you can use this instead of the SHORT GRAIN function for cooking. Another way to try and achieve the char is to add a little less water before cooking. Allow the rice to soak with the ingredients for 20 minutes before cooking (rice will absorb water to give a drier finish) and after cooking allow the mix to stay on KEEP WARM for 5-10 minutes before serving.



















What would be a recommended size of rice cooker for these kind of one-pot recipes, also considering for example meal prep for 2-3 days and plain convenience?
3,5 cup sounds a bit on the small size. Would 5,5 cup cooker be enough, or 8 cup would be recommended?
Hi BWojnar, unfortunately this is an impossible question to answer because we don’t know how much rice you eat in a portion. We would advise that you take what you usually cook in uncooked rice and put this into a measuring jug and see how many ml this is. You can then compare to the 180ml cup size and see which rice cooker would be the better capacity for your needs.