Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lopaco (chinese turnip cake). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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):
- Get 2 turnips. Peeled
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Get 400 g rice flour
- Make ready Boiling water
- Prepare 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
- Take 400 grams ground beef
- Make ready 1 onion
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 1 tbsp corn starch
- Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
- Get 1 (12 inch) cake pan. Greased
- Make ready 400 grams ground beef
- Take 1 onion
- Take 3 eggs
- Take 1 tbsp corn starch
It's steamed, and then pan fried to create a tender texture with a crispy crust. 瑶柱腊味蘿蔔糕 Traditional Chinese Turnip Cake What is Chinese turnip cake 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. 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. Turnip cake is made of daikon (lo bak in Cantonese), which is a long vegetable that looks like a bloated white carrot. Daikon is actually a type of radish, so technically, this dish ought to be "radish cake." However, someone started calling this "turnip cake" years ago, and that's the name that has stuck.
Steps to make Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake):
- Grate the turnip
- Add 1 tsp salt and 2 tsp sugar. Mix.
- Add rice flour and 3 cups boiling water. Mix until uniform.
- Place empty cake pan on steamer.
- Pour the mix into the pan.
- Add enough boiling water water to fill the pan, leaving a spare 1/2 inch
- Steam for an hour and a half.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix the Chinese mushrooms, ground beef, onion, eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, soy sauce and corn starch.
- 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.
- In a bowl, mix the Chinese mushrooms, ground beef, onion, eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, and corn starch.
Turnip cake is made of daikon (lo bak in Cantonese), which is a long vegetable that looks like a bloated white carrot. Daikon is actually a type of radish, so technically, this dish ought to be "radish cake." However, someone started calling this "turnip cake" years ago, and that's the name that has stuck. We will have to roll with it. Made with rice flour and grated daikon radish, turnip cake is a Lunar New Year staple, especially in Hong Kong and the Southern regions of China. It's also a very common dim sum dish, where it's usually served pan-fried and topped with scallions.
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