Do You Think Bisquick Will Work For This Recipe,
With their love of pancakes, it’s no surprise that the Japanese came up with an inventive way to make epic pancakes in their tiny kitchens: in a rice cooker. Yup, you can use your rice cooker for more than just rice! The pancakes kind of end up more like a steamed sponge cake, but they’re easy to make and fun to eat.
Since I’m in Tokyo I decided to do what the Tokyoites do and make a rice cooker pancake. Only thing is: I don’t really read much Japanese so I couldn’t really figure out the difference between all the white powders that were baking powder and baking soda. Asking an employee resulted in a lot of sign language, laughter and, um, no baking powder or soda. What the kind lady did find me though, was a package of “hot cake” mix.
I rolled with it because I really wanted to make an epic pancake and I wasn’t about to let a lack of ingredients stand in my way. Our tiny kitchen (two burners and a combo microwave oven/toaster) came with a rice cooker so after buying the hot cake mix I was pretty much set. I mixed up the batter according to the helpful smiling egg and milk characters on the back of the package, spooned it into the rice cooker and waited. An hour and a bit later, success! My pancake was golden, fluffy and shaped like a curling stone.
I topped it off with some softly whipped cream, the tiniest ruby-red strawberries and a diced kiwi. Not pictured are the copious amounts of sweetened condensed milk I drizzled over the whole thing. I was so happy with the way this giant pancake turned out - it’s just the thing for a celebratory Sunday brunch or maybe even Christmas morning. In a bowl, make the pancakes as instructed on the box. Spoon the batter into your rice cooker and press the start button.
Cook the pancake for 45 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Your rice cooker will most likely turn off, so keep and eye on it and re-start it as needed. The pancake is done when it’s domed and a toothpick comes out with just few crumbs sticking to it. Flip the rice cooker bowl onto a plate. A this point you can either: top it with whipped cream and fruit and then slice it or you can slice it and then top with with whipped cream and fruit. Enjoy warm with plenty of syrup or sweetened condensed milk.
Note: Alternatively you could make this with your favorite pancake recipe, but I haven’t tried it. If you do, be sure to not fill up your rice cooker too high as the pancake will rise and stick to the top. Aim for 2-3 cups of batter max. How cool is that. Pancakes in a rice cooker.
Love the Japanese ingenuity. I am dreaming to try the rice cooker baking when I first read it in the Manga a year ago! It looked too good to be true. It could be a birthday cake. Majority of houses in Japan, Korea and even in the Philippines have rice cookers.
I sometimes cook ramen or some soup dish in there. I need to seriously try this out! This looks absolutely amazing! I love how cute it is! What a genius idea! I so need to try this! This is one gorgeous puffy pancake! ’s so cool. Definitely will try. Do you think Bisquick will work for this recipe, ’t use too much batter! This is the coolest thing EVER. And your story about the baking powder v. baking soda is too hilarious — hahaha! When you have mixes with smiling milk and egg characters, making pancakes from scratch suddenly seems totally unnecessary.
A recipe for change, One more contest to go! Next week - NIFMA World's in Dublin then it's going to be a focus on gaining some more muscle over the next 18 months or so even tho I'm an old git now! I have found that prioritising basic compound movements has given me new found increases in lifts so perhaps some lean mass gain is possible, My diet however sucks in that it so boring and unimaginative. I have been inspired by other folk posting healthy recipes online that could easily fit in to daily macros.
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