Savory turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/だいこんもち) 🥢. If you have ever had dim sum, then this dish must be known by you. This delicious and savory dish is nothing like cakes you know from desserts. Chinese turnip pancakes are an easy way to get the flavor of a dim sum radish cake with a lot less prep time involved!

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. You can have Savory turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/だいこんもち) 🥢 using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Savory turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/だいこんもち) 🥢

Prepare 50 g of long grain rice flour (在來米粉).
It's 250 g of radish.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of white pepper.
Prepare of sprinkle of salt.

This is my mum's recipe, it is easy to make and with lots of. Turnip and Cake are two words that you don't often see together. And if it was a sweet desert cake we were talking about - rightly so! In England the nearest taste to this is the wonderfully named bubble and squeak, but this Turnip Cake 蘿蔔糕 is better, higher quality and more consistent. 白蘿蔔去皮，一半刨絲，一半切粗條(約手指尾的粗度)，刨出來的蘿蔔水不用倒掉。 * *切粗條的蘿蔔可使蘿蔔糕吃到蘿蔔，因為餘下刨絲的會溶於粉醬內。乾冬菇、蝦米、臘腸切粒，乾瑤柱拆絲備用。粘米粉、鷹粟粉過篩放入大盆內，將浸過乾冬菇、乾瑤.

Savory turnip cake (蘿蔔糕/だいこんもち) 🥢 instructions

Grate the turnip (or radish) and cook with one cup of water until summer..
Take one cup of the cooking water out and mix with long grain rice flour..
Add the starch back to wok, stir, and pour back to a well oiled loaf pan for later steaming..
Place the pan to a steamer with plenty of water. Steam them for about 30-50 minites..

This week on AKwan's Kitchen, we are making Chinese turnip cake. You will find this "glutinous" dish commonly served in dim sum restaurants and eaten during the Chinese New Year. Full written recipe after the jump. Chinese Turnip Cakes are usually served with Hoisin Sauce, a slightly sweet and savory Chinese BBQ sauce and chili sauce, if you like it spicy. It's quite a bit of work to make these Chinese Turnip Cakes but absolutely worth it.