Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chinese turnip cake (lo bak go). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chinese turnip cake (lo bak go) using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go):
- Prepare 500 g chinese turnip or daikon radish, grated
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare Oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp dried shrimp, washed, soaked and chopped
- Take 3-5 dried chinese black mushroom, washed, soaked and chopped
- Prepare 1 chinese sausage, diced
- Get 1 slice char sew pork, diced
- Take 1 spring onion, chopped
- Take 1 cup rice flour
- Make ready 1 tbsp corn starch
- Prepare Salt, sugar, pepper
- Take Oyster sauce for dipping (optional)
It's steamed, and then pan fried to create a tender texture with a crispy crust. Lo Bak Go, the Chinese turnip cake or white radish cake, is one of the most popular dim sum dishes around the world. Lo Bak means radish and Go refers to cake, just like in Ma Lai Go. The cake originated in the Chao Shan area in Guangdong, Southern China.
Instructions to make Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go):
- Grate the turnip use largest holes on a box grater.
- Add grated turnip and water to a wok and bring to a simmer. Simmer about 10 minutes, stirring occasionaly so the turnip does not brown.
- The turnip will produce liquid, some of which will evaporate. Cook it until you have about 3/4 cup liquid left in the pan with the radish.
- Pour everything including the liquid into a large mixing bowl to cool.
- Heat the pan over medium heat and add 2 tbsp oil. Add dried shrimp, mushroom, sausage, char sew and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Stir in chopped spring onion and remove from the heat to cool.
- Add rica flour, cornstarch, salt, sugar, pepper to the mixing bowl with the radish and cooking liquid.
- Mix well until dry ingredients are well incorporated.
- Add in the cooked shrimp, mushroom and sausage, and be sure to scrape the oil from the pan into the batter. Mix well and let sit for 15 minutes
- Give the batter a final stir and pour it into a well, oiled loaf pan. Place the pan into a steamer with plenty of water and steam it into medium heat for 50 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the steamer and let your turnip cake set for about 30 minutes. Once cooled, loosen the sides with spatula and turn it out into the chopping board.
- Use a sharp knife dipped in water to slice 1/2 inch thick pieces.
- Add 2 tbsp oil to a non stick pan over medium heat. Fry the cake of both sides until golden and crispy. Serve with oyster sauce.
- Enjoy
Lo Bak means radish and Go refers to cake, just like in Ma Lai Go. The cake originated in the Chao Shan area in Guangdong, Southern China. Turnip cake is a traditional Chinese dim sum dish and Chinese New Year food. Also, pan fried turnip cake often serves in Chinese dim sum restaurants for breakfast. Besides, turnip cake is mainly made from radish and rice flour.
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