Pilaf or pilau is a rice dish, or in some regions, a wheat dish. The recipe usually involves cooking in stock or broth, adding spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat. The technique for cooking achieves rice grains that do not stick together. This pilau rice is a really easy side dish that you can whip up in ...

The dictionary definition of ‘curry’ is a dish, originally from South Asia, consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce. Although this is technically correct, our understanding of the dish ‘curry’ and the wide range of cuisines this can encompass has broadened so much over the last 40 years. Growing up in the UK in the 1980’s, our first ...

Porridge with amazing toppings can banish the winter blues and keep you full up until lunch. Cooking oat porridge in a rice cooker is easy – you can set the timer before you go to sleep, then in the morning you just need to add some milk and toppings and you are ready to eat. The best thing about porridge ...

Panda fuzzy logic mini rice cooker was added to Yum Asia’s range of rice cookers in September 2018 after the success of our Bamboo Umai Induction Heating and Sakura multi-function fuzzy logic rice cookers. The reason we launched a mini rice cooker was mainly from feedback from customers – although 8 cup rice cookers do cook small amounts of rice ...

Made with chicken and typical South Indian ingredients like coconut milk and curry leaves, this creamy spicy dish tastes best with rice. Serve it for a family meal and portion it up for tasty lunches. This curry can easily be adapted to vegetarian or vegan, just replace the meat with your favourite pulses or add sweet potato. Spinach would also ...

Baking without dairy can be a real challenge as replacing butter and milk isn’t as easy as you’d think – plant based/non-dairy milks affect how baked good rise and oils can give flavour to cakes that you don’t want. That said, here’s a fabulous recipe for a lovely sticky, spicy ginger cake which is even better the day after baking. ...

Yoghurt making is one of the unique add-on features on our Sakura rice cooker, this setting takes all of the hard work out of producing perfect, creamy, tasty yoghurt. The best thing is, there is no added sugar in homemade yoghurt so you know exactly what you are eating. The key thing about yoghurt making is being able to keep a ...

You won’t be craving your Chinese takeaway so much after trying this recipe! Don’t be put off by the 3 separate ingredient lists for this recipe, it’s actually not as difficult as you may think. The marinade is important as it helps to tenderise the beef. Do this for one hour minimum, 3 hours is better. Watch our recipe video ...

These easy salsas and slaw can be paired with barbeque meals, tacos, fajitas, fish, grains, rice – anything really. They pack a punch of flavours and it’s a really easy and delicious way to get your veg. Our recipes here are tried and tested and completely yummy – easy tomato salsa, easy sweetcorn salsa and easy mixed veg slaw. ...

Yumami or ‘extra taste’ rice function on Bamboo enhances the flavour of any type of white rice by using a specially designed cooking cycle, It does this by using a sequence of soaking and steaming to release the sugars contained in the rice that are then reabsorbed back into the rice as a different chemical structure that can activate Umami ...