Turnip Cake
Turnip Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, turnip cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This savory turnip cake (sometimes called radish) lo bak go is a very traditional dish often served at dim sum houses, and when I was a kid, it always showed up on the table on Chinese New Year's Day. As a result, it's been etched in my mind as a wonderfully delicious tradition. To tell if the cake is done, you can stick a chopstick straight into the pan. Turnip cake (lo bak gou / 蘿蔔糕) brings me back the fond memory of my childhood seeping a pot of bottomless Pu'er tea with my father in the dim sum house every Sunday morning.

Turnip Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Turnip Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have turnip cake using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Turnip Cake:
  1. Prepare 900 g daikon
  2. Prepare 2 Chinese sausages
  3. Get 4 shiitake mushrooms
  4. Get 70 g rice flour
  5. Get 70 g corn starch
  6. Get 200 ml daikon + mushroom water
  7. Prepare 2 cloves minced garlic
  8. Get Seasoning (ingredient mix)
  9. Take 1/2 tsp sugar
  10. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce
  11. Take 1/2 tbsp cooking wine
  12. Get (For the daikon)
  13. Take 1 tsp salt
  14. Get 1 tsp sugar
  15. Get 1/2 tsp white pepper

Once time is up, turn off the heat. Take out the bread pan and let the Turnip Cake cool down. Then, using a knife, slide it around the sides of the bread pan to loosen the Turnip Cake from the pan. Turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/萝卜糕) is a dish that you often find at dim sum.

Steps to make Turnip Cake:
  1. Soak the dried mushrooms for 3 hours. Squeeze out water, remove the stems and cut into small dices
  2. Steam the Chinese sausages for 10 minutes and cut into small dices
  3. Peel and grate half of the daikon and cut the other half into thick slices(optional). Squeeze water out from the grated daikons and reserve for later use
  4. Add sausages to a cold wok and let the fat render. Add the mushrooms and seasoning, then sauté for a few minutes. Remove from heat
  5. In the same pan, sauté garlic until fragrant. Add the daikons, lid on and cook over medium heat for around 10 minutes or until soften
  6. Meanwhile, mix rice flour, corn starch with water (use the residual water from the daikon and from soaking the mushrooms). Add water if the liquid doesn’t make up 200 ml
  7. Season the daikons, add the ingredient mix and sauté for a few minutes
  8. Lower heat then slowly pour in the batter over a strainer to remove any lumps. Stir and cook for a few minutes
  9. Grease a baking pan/ aluminium tray with oil then pour the batter in. Make sure the batter is pressed into the pan and the surface is flat
  10. Cover with cling film/ tinfoil and steam for 45-60 minutes. Refrigerate overnight and serve pan-fried or steamed
  11. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Then, using a knife, slide it around the sides of the bread pan to loosen the Turnip Cake from the pan. Turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/萝卜糕) is a dish that you often find at dim sum. Although it is plain to look at, a good pan-fried turnip cake is a flavor explosion. Pan frying the turnip cake gives it a crispy exterior, while the inside stays soft. The Chinese turnip cake is a popular dim sum item and a festive dish for Chinese holidays, including Chinese New Year.

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