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

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

Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

This savory turnip cake (also called radish cake, lo bak go) is a traditional dish served at dim sum restaurant along with other delicacies like shumai and barbecue pork bun. It is not hard to make turnip cake at home. I have divided this turnip cake recipe into a few steps. Each step can be done separately and even at a different time.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lopaco (chinese turnip cake) using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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. The Chinese turnip cake is a popular dim sum item and a festive dish for Chinese holidays, including Chinese New Year.

Steps 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.

The cake originated in the Chao Shan area in Guangdong, Southern China. 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. It's steamed, and then pan fried to create a tender texture with a crispy crust. Turnip cake is made of daikon (lo bak in Cantonese), which is a long vegetable that looks like a bloated white carrot.

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