Recipe: Tasty Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake)

Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake). Our family turnip cake lo bak go recipe uses Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, mushrooms and more. Having sampled versions of turnip cake (or lo bak go, as it's known in Cantonese) at many dim sum restaurants over the years, I've come to the conclusion that they can't be compared to our. Semoga kalian berkenan dg vidio sy yg masih amatiran ini.

It's steamed, and then pan fried to create a tender texture with a crispy crust. Chinese radish cake or turnip cake is a famous Chinese dessert available during the morning dim sum, Yun Cha. In Chinese, we name this type of cake as Gao in marinade or Gow in Cantonese dialect. You can cook Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake)

1. You need 2 of turnips. Peeled.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
3. Prepare 2 tsp of sugar.
4. You need 400 g of rice flour.
5. It's of Boiling water.
6. You need 7 of Chinese mushrooms. Chopped.
7. You need 400 grams of ground beef.
8. You need 1 of onion.
9. Prepare 3 of eggs.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of corn starch.
11. It's 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
12. You need 7 of Chinese mushrooms. Chopped.
13. You need 1 (12 inch) of cake pan. Greased.
14. You need 400 grams of ground beef.
15. You need 1 of onion.
16. You need 3 of eggs.
17. You need 1 tbsp of corn starch.

Last year, we celebrated the event with some good friends at home, and my mum would have been proud of the spread which I created. Pan-Fried Turnip Cake (Chinese: 香煎蘿蔔糕) or Stir-Fried Radish Cake with XO Sauce (Chinese: XO醬炒蘿蔔糕) is one of my favorite dim sums when we go yum cha!! Love those caramelized bits of Chinese sausages and cured meat embedded in the creamy soft yet slight crisp bite of aromatic. The cake tastes like turnip cakes I've had in Chinese restaurants but I think the mushrooms shrimp and sausage should be chopped very finely for a more even texture.

Lopaco (Chinese turnip cake) instructions

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..

But I will definitely try this again but won't wait until Chinese New Year! Update: I made these again with the same result. Turnip cake is a Chinese dim sum dish. The less commonly used radish cake is a more accurate name, as Western-style turnips are not used in the dish but rather shredded radish (typically Chinese radish) and plain rice flour. It is traditionally called carrot cake in Singapore.