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Chinese Turnip Cake / Lo bak Gou

 Chinese Turnip Cake / Lo bak Gou (ft. my Chinese Grandma) -- she only has 1,400 views so give her more hits!!  It's so funny cause they bicker about if it is "smelly"


Learn how to make turnip cake from Hong Kong's top chef (south china post)
https://youtu.be/c8JfP38e97s





You commonly find it in Chinese Dim Sum Restaurants and in Southern Chinese cuisine. As you can see my “popo” likes to do everything by feel using a mug lol so the rough recipe is below. Ingredients: 2 large daikon peeled (2lbs) 1 cup of rice flour 2 tbsp of wheat starch or corn starch 1 cup of water salt white pepper 4 Chinese sausages scallions (optional) Procedure: Dice your Chinese sausage and peel the skin off of it if you choose. Saute it in a saucepan for roughly 5 min on low heat. You don't have to add oil or brown it. You just want to open up the flavors. Use a cheese grater to grate the daikon If you can't grate the entire piece, you can cut it into small pieces. Then add the daikon to a large pot with 1 cup of water and 1 pinch of salt, cover it and boil for 20-30 min. Then set it to the side to cool. The daikon will break down and become soft in texture. Then in a large bowl, measure out 1 cup of rice flour, 2 tbsp of wheat starch, a pinch of salt, a pinch of white pepper, and a half cup of the water that you cooked the daikon in (if you don't have enough water, use regular warm water) and mix together. The daikon should be warm at this stage. It should look like glue but you should still be able to stir it. When the mixture is incorporated add 2 cups of cooked turnip and roughly 1/4 cup of Chinese sausage. You can add more if you like. Once incorporated add the mixture to a greased pan and steam for 1 hour. 30 min into the cooking process, take the lid off and replenish the water at the bottom if necessary. When it's ready the turnip cake should not stick when you put a chopstick in it to pierce it. You can enjoy it right away. Or let it sit overnight and pan-fry it with a little bit of oil the next day. That's how they do it at the Dim Sum Restaurants.
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