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Panda Multifunction Mini Rice Cooker by Yum Asia
7.1 CAKES
For cakes, you can make things easier by using a ready-made cake mix and adding your favourite ingredients,
they still turn out perfectly. If you want to make your own cake batter, be sure to follow the guidance on
maximum ingredients. See our foodie blog at
www.greedypanda.co.uk
for more cake recipes that you can scale
down for cooking in Panda.
CHOCOLATE BROWNIE
Ingredients
2 ½ tablespoons of sunflower or coconut oil
100g dark (at least 70% cocoa) chocolate
85g of self-raising flour (or plain flour with 1 level teaspoon of baking powder)
1 ½ tablespoons of cocoa powder
90g golden caster sugar
115ml soya milk (or any other milk)
a pinch of salt, less than 1/8 tsp
Directions
1.
Grease the inner bowl with a little sunflower oil
2.
Break 75g of the chocolate and melt – either in a heatproof bowl over a pan of water or by a quick
blast in the microwave. Leave to cool a little
3.
Sieve flour and cocoa powder into a large bowl and add the sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir in the oil,
soya milk and melted chocolate until combined – it really doesn’t take much to combine the
ingredients.
4.
Roughly chop the remaining 25g of chocolate and stir into the mixture.
5.
Pour into Panda's inner bowl, smoothing the top a little with a spoon. Pat the bottom of the inner bowl
on a flat palm, just to settle the mixture.
6.
Bake for 30 minutes. Check after 30 minutes with a it should come out with some mixture stuck to it (in
the middle). The top will still be quite soft, don’t worry about this, the brownie keeps on cooking while it
cools, you don't want to overcook it!
7.
Leave to cool in the inner bowl and once cooled completely, tip out and cut into pieces
As you can see from the ingredients, this is a vegan/dairy free recipe, so the maximum weight
restrictions on cake doesn’t apply to this recipe as there isn’t any eggs to cook. It’s a delicious brownie
and you’d never guess it was dairy-free!
8. COOKING WITH OTHER GRAINS/PULSES IN PANDA
It’s possible to cook other grains and pulses in Panda, you would need to experiment with adjusting water levels
and selecting the correct cooking cycle. Here is a rough guide that may help cooking other grains and pulses in
Panda.
QUINOA
If it’s not pre-washed, make sure you rinse it well in a sieve with cold water. Use a 1:1 ratio of quinoa to water
(up the water to 1:1.25 if you are using black quinoa) and use the quick cook setting. Once it’s finished cooking,
fluff up a little and leave on keep warm for 5-10 minutes.
