Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go)
Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go)

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chinese turnip cake (lo bak go). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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. Turnip cake is a woefully insufficient name for these little crispy savory cakes of tasty perfection.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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):
  1. Take 500 g chinese turnip or daikon radish, grated
  2. Prepare 1 cup water
  3. Take Oil
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp dried shrimp, washed, soaked and chopped
  5. Take 3-5 dried chinese black mushroom, washed, soaked and chopped
  6. Get 1 chinese sausage, diced
  7. Prepare 1 slice char sew pork, diced
  8. Prepare 1 spring onion, chopped
  9. Get 1 cup rice flour
  10. Take 1 tbsp corn starch
  11. Prepare Salt, sugar, pepper
  12. Get Oyster sauce for dipping (optional)

But "糕" can refer to many different foods in Chinese cuisine: sweet or savory batter that's steamed into a solid cake, like lo bak go; sweet batter that is steamed into moist and airy. Turnip cake is a Chinese dim sum dish. The less commonly used radish cake is a more accurate name, as Western-style turnips are not used in the dish but rather shredded radish (typically Chinese radish) and plain rice flour. It is traditionally called carrot cake in Singapore.

Instructions to make Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go):
  1. Grate the turnip use largest holes on a box grater.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Pour everything including the liquid into a large mixing bowl to cool.
  5. Heat the pan over medium heat and add 2 tbsp oil. Add dried shrimp, mushroom, sausage, char sew and cook for about 5 minutes.
  6. Stir in chopped spring onion and remove from the heat to cool.
  7. Add rica flour, cornstarch, salt, sugar, pepper to the mixing bowl with the radish and cooking liquid.
  8. Mix well until dry ingredients are well incorporated.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Use a sharp knife dipped in water to slice 1/2 inch thick pieces.
  13. 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.
  14. Enjoy

Chinese turnip cake (Lo Bake Go) is the most popular and MUST-HAVE food in Chinese new year. Every family has their own recipe passed by grandmothers. Of course the homemade one is thousands time better than the store-bought one. This Chinese turnip cake's traditional fillings have been switched up with some bacon, cheese, caramelized onions and dried scallops for a creamier It's almost Chinese New Year, and every year I go hog wild stuffing my face with turnip cake during this time of year. This year I decided to break.

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