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Coconut fish curry
Achieng · 35 min · cook-along
“Pika, next.”
Hands-free steps, timers that run themselves
A recipe in the app with its time, effort and ingredients
Cook-along: one step at a time, with the screen kept awake

What it is

Recipes on PikaBox come with a cook-along: one step at a time, with timers that run themselves and the ingredients a tap away on PikaFresh.

Why it’s good

  1. Built-in timers on every step that needs one
  2. Shared cook-sessions: start on the tablet, carry on from your phone
  3. Little chefs: kids’ recipes to cook together, safe by stage

Cuisine

Cooking Swahili.

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Cook-along

Cook along on your phone.

Prop your phone against the sugar tin. PikaBox reads each step, runs the timers and waits for you, with the screen kept awake.

  1. Say “Pika, next”Hands-free steps in English or Kiswahili. Your hands stay in the pot.
  2. Timers that run themselvesEvery step that needs one starts its own. Three pots, three timers, one gentle chime.
  3. Show Pika your pan“Golden, not brown yet. Two more minutes.”
  4. Missing something?Every ingredient is a tap away on PikaFresh, measured for your table.
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Your timer is ready: Pika calls out the next step, hands-free, while the pot keeps going

From recipe to plate

Every recipe, a cook-along.

Recipes from home cooks and chefs, each one ready to cook with you.

  1. Your table

    Make it for your table

    Cooking for two, a family of four or a Sunday crowd? Every quantity changes with the servings, in cups and handfuls or grams.

    Cooking for four: the recipe’s quantities rescaled, measured in cups and handfuls

  2. PikaFresh

    The ingredients, a tap away

    Add what you need as a MealKit from PikaFresh, portioned for your table. What’s already in your kitchen stays off the list.

    A MealKit for Coast-style pilau: each ingredient portioned for four, ready to add to your basket

  3. Cook-along

    One step at a time

    The step, big, over the dish. The screen stays on, and the next step waits until you’re ready.

    Cook-along: one step on screen over the dish, with the onion timer running

  4. Pika

    Ask the pan

    Not sure it’s done? Show Pika the pan and ask. It tells you what it sees, and what to do next.

    Pika is looking at the chicken in the pan: the thick piece needs a few more minutes
Little chefs: a head chef and a sous chef, with the jobs safe for each
Cooking together: everyone in the session sees the same step, in sync

Cook together

More hands, one pot.

Cooking is better with company, whether they’re in your kitchen or across town.

Shared cook-sessions
Start on the tablet, carry on from your phone, or invite someone to cook the same recipe with you. Everyone sees the same step.
Little chefs
Kids’ recipes to cook together, safe by stage: the head chef measures and kneads, you take the hot jobs.
Cooking with kids? Little chefs

Collections

Hand-picked, for real evenings.

Put together by our food team and the cooks you love. Save one in the app and Pika builds your week from it.

  1. CollectionWeeknight in 30Fast, filling, and nothing you have to plan ahead.
  2. CollectionSunday with DadBig flavour, low salt. The family table at its best.
  3. CollectionNut-free for kidsChecked for nuts, made for small hands to help with.

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