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Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go). 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. The Chinese turnip cake is a popular dim sum item and a festive dish for Chinese holidays, including Chinese New Year.

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Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) This Chinese turnip cake's traditional ingredients have been switched up with bacon, aged cheddar, caramelized onions and dried scallops for a creamier, and more full flavoured turnip cake! Turnip cake is a traditional Chinese dim sum dish and Chinese New Year food. Also, pan fried turnip cake often serves in Chinese dim sum restaurants for breakfast.

You can cook Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) use 12 ingredients and 14 the steps. Here guides how you cook it.

The main ingredient Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go) as follows:

  1. Prepare 500 g of chinese turnip or daikon radish, grated.
  2. Prepare 1 cup of water.
  3. Prepare of Oil.
  4. You need 1 tbsp of dried shrimp, washed, soaked and chopped.
  5. Prepare 3-5 of dried chinese black mushroom, washed, soaked and chopped.
  6. Prepare 1 of chinese sausage, diced.
  7. You need 1 slice of char sew pork, diced.
  8. You need 1 of spring onion, chopped.
  9. You need 1 cup of rice flour.
  10. You need 1 tbsp of corn starch.
  11. You need of Salt, sugar, pepper.
  12. Prepare of Oyster sauce for dipping (optional).

Besides, turnip cake is mainly made from radish and rice flour. It also called radish cake, white carrot cake or in Chinese named lo bak go (蘿蔔糕). 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.

Instructions Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go)

  1. Grate the turnip use largest holes on a box grater..
  2. Add grated turnip and water to a wok and bring to a simmer. Simmer about 10 minutes, stirring occasionaly so the turnip does not brown..
  3. The turnip will produce liquid, some of which will evaporate. Cook it until you have about 3/4 cup liquid left in the pan with the radish..
  4. Pour everything including the liquid into a large mixing bowl to cool..
  5. Heat the pan over medium heat and add 2 tbsp oil. Add dried shrimp, mushroom, sausage, char sew and cook for about 5 minutes..
  6. Stir in chopped spring onion and remove from the heat to cool..
  7. Add rica flour, cornstarch, salt, sugar, pepper to the mixing bowl with the radish and cooking liquid..
  8. Mix well until dry ingredients are well incorporated..
  9. Add in the cooked shrimp, mushroom and sausage, and be sure to scrape the oil from the pan into the batter. Mix well and let sit for 15 minutes.
  10. Give the batter a final stir and pour it into a well, oiled loaf pan. Place the pan into a steamer with plenty of water and steam it into medium heat for 50 minutes..
  11. Remove the pan from the steamer and let your turnip cake set for about 30 minutes. Once cooled, loosen the sides with spatula and turn it out into the chopping board..
  12. Use a sharp knife dipped in water to slice 1/2 inch thick pieces..
  13. Add 2 tbsp oil to a non stick pan over medium heat. Fry the cake of both sides until golden and crispy. Serve with oyster sauce..
  14. Enjoy.

A delicious classic Chinese New Year Food that symbolizes "good fortune". 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. Trying to figure out how lo bak go turned into "turnip cake" in English is convoluted and confusing. It is a lesson in how translations sometimes fail us.