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Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) My grandma's recipe. Turnip cake (lo bak gou / 蘿蔔糕) brings me back the fond memory of my childhood seeping a pot of bottomless Pu'er tea with my father in the dim sum house every Sunday morning. Besides the barbecue pork bun, shrimp dumpling, and Shumai, pan-fried turnip cake is the dim sum I always order whenever the lady trundled her cart beside my table with towers of bamboo steamers full of dim sum.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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):
- Make ready 2 turnips. Peeled
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 tsp sugar
- Prepare 400 g rice flour
- Prepare Boiling water
- Take 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
- Prepare 400 grams ground beef
- Get 1 onion
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare 1 tbsp corn starch
- Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 7 Chinese mushrooms. Chopped
- Prepare 1 (12 inch) cake pan. Greased
- Prepare 400 grams ground beef
- Take 1 onion
- Get 3 eggs
- Take 1 tbsp corn starch
Chinese Turnip Cakes are traditionally made in loaf tins, but I find it easier to make them in round cake tins, mostly because I don't have a Chinese-style steamer but use a Moroccan-inspired couscousier for steaming; it's a bit smaller than most Chinese-style steamers and fits a round cake tin comfortably. So depending on what shape or size tin you are using, you may have to. This savory turnip cake (sometimes called radish) lo bak go is a very traditional dish often served at dim sum houses, and when I was a kid, it always showed up on the table on Chinese New Year's Day. As a result, it's been etched in my mind as a wonderfully delicious tradition.
Instructions 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.
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. Make Dim Sum favorite Instant Pot Turnip Cake or Chinese Radish Cake (Chinese: 蘿蔔糕 aka Lo Bak Go or Luo Bo Gao)! Fragrant umami bites that are slightly crisp on the outside and creamy soft on the inside. A delicious classic Chinese New Year Food that symbolizes "good fortune".
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