Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake)
Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake)

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lopaco (chinese turnip cake). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Our family turnip cake lo bak go recipe uses Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, mushrooms and more. Having sampled versions of turnip cake (or lo bak go, as it's known in Cantonese) at many dim sum restaurants over the years, I've come to the conclusion that they can't be compared to our. 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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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lopaco (chinese turnip cake) using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake):
  1. Make ready 2 turnips. Peeled
  2. Take 1 tsp salt
  3. Make ready 2 tsp sugar
  4. Get 400 g rice flour
  5. Get Boiling water
  6. Take 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
  7. Take 400 grams ground beef
  8. Take 1 onion
  9. Prepare 3 eggs
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp corn starch
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp soy sauce
  12. Make ready 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
  13. Take 1 (12 inch) cake pan. Greased
  14. Get 400 grams ground beef
  15. Prepare 1 onion
  16. Take 3 eggs
  17. Get 1 tbsp corn starch

Chinese radish cake or turnip cake is a famous Chinese dessert available during the morning dim sum, Yun Cha. In Chinese, we name this type of cake as Gao in marinade or Gow in Cantonese dialect. Pan-Fried Turnip Cake (Chinese: 香煎蘿蔔糕) or Stir-Fried Radish Cake with XO Sauce (Chinese: XO醬炒蘿蔔糕) is one of my favorite dim sums when we go yum cha!! Love those caramelized bits of Chinese sausages and cured meat embedded in the creamy soft yet slight crisp bite of aromatic.

Instructions to make Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake):
  1. Grate the turnip
  2. Add 1 tsp salt and 2 tsp sugar. Mix.
  3. Add rice flour and 3 cups boiling water. Mix until uniform.
  4. Place empty cake pan on steamer.
  5. Pour the mix into the pan.
  6. Add enough boiling water water to fill the pan, leaving a spare 1/2 inch
  7. Steam for an hour and a half.
  8. Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix the Chinese mushrooms, ground beef, onion, eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, soy sauce and corn starch.
  9. After an hour and a half has passed (or when the cake has a jello consistency and turnip is cooked), spread the meat mixture on top of it and let it steam for 20 more minutes or until beef is done.
  10. In a bowl, mix the Chinese mushrooms, ground beef, onion, eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, and corn starch.

Turnip cake (simplified Chinese: 萝卜糕; traditional Chinese: 蘿蔔糕; pinyin: luóbo gāo; Cantonese Yale: lòbaahk gōu) is a Chinese dim sum dish made of shredded radish (typically Chinese radish) and plain rice flour. The less commonly used radish cake is a more accurate name, in that Western-style. The cake tastes like turnip cakes I've had in Chinese restaurants but I think the mushrooms shrimp and sausage should be chopped very finely for a more even texture. But I will definitely try this again but won't wait until Chinese New Year! Update: I made these again with the same result.

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