Simple Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Turnip Cake

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Turnip Cake. 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 (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.

Hey everyone, it's me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, turnip cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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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.

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

The ingredients needed to make Turnip Cake:

1. Prepare 900 g of daikon.
2. Make ready 2 of Chinese sausages.
3. Prepare 4 of shiitake mushrooms.
4. Take 70 g of rice flour.
5. Prepare 70 g of corn starch.
6. Get 200 ml of daikon + mushroom water.
7. Get 2 cloves of minced garlic.
8. Take of Seasoning (ingredient mix).
9. Take 1/2 tsp of sugar.
10. Take 1 tsp of soy sauce.
11. Take 1/2 tbsp of cooking wine.
12. Make ready of (For the daikon).
13. Get 1 tsp of salt.
14. Take 1 tsp of sugar.
15. Prepare 1/2 tsp of 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, known as Lo Bak Go in Cantonese and Luo Bo Gao/萝卜糕 in Mandarin, is a classic dim sum dish typically served in Cantonese Yum Cha restaurants.

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.

For those who haven't tasted it or cooked it themselves, I'd like to clarify some confusion caused by the popular English translation of its name. The Chinese turnip cake is a popular dim sum item and a festive dish for Chinese holidays, including Chinese New Year. It is a savory rice cake loaded with cured meat, daikon radish, mushrooms, and dried shrimp. Sauté green onion and ginger for a half minute. Add chopped sausage and dry shrimp pieces, cook for another minute.

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