Chinese cuisine
Ingredients:
- 3 cups lightly packed coarsely
shredded daikon radish white turnip.
- 1 Chinese sausage finely diced.
- 2 tbsp finely diced Chinese dried
shrimp.
- ½ cup dried shitake mushrooms.
- 2 stalks green onions, green and
light green parts finely sliced.
- 2 cups rice flour, but not
glutinous rice flour.
- 1 tsp salt.
- pinch sugar.
- ¼ tsp ground white pepper.
- 3 cups water.
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil.
- sweet soy sauce.
Directions:
- soaked dried shitake mushrooms in
cold water for at least 2 hours; remove stems and dice finely.
- To make sweet soy sauce, place sugar and soy sauce to taste in a Chinese
rock, heated gently until the sugar dissolves and then cooled completely.
- Place the shredded radish and water
in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Reduce the heat to low and maintain
a simmer for 15 minutes, covered, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat. Place the radish
in a large measuring cup. Reserve the cooking liquid.
-Top the radish by 3 cups with the remaining cooking liquid.
Set aside and allow to cool slightly.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a
skillet over medium heat.
- Add the lap cheong, mushrooms, and
dried shrimp. Stir fry for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Then remove from
heat.
- Prepare the steamer and bring the
water to rolling boil.
- In a large bowl mix together the
rice flour, salt, sugar, and white pepper.
- Add the radish and cooking water
and stir until well combined, it should not be watery or too thick. You can
adjust the rice flour and water to reach the desired consistency.
- Add the lap cheong, dried shrimp,
mushrooms, and green onions to the batter and stir to combine.
- Pour the mixture into a lightly
greased 9 inch round glass dish or cake pan or a loaf pans. If you use a loaf
pan, increase the steaming time.
- Place the dish into the steamer,
and steam for 30 to 40 minutes.
- The turnip cake will be done when
an inserted toothpick comes out clean from the centre.
- Remove the turnip cake from the
steamer, place the dish on a wire rack and let cool before cutting into slices.
- serve this warm after steaming with
sweet soy sauce.
- Alternatively, you could pan fry
the slices in oil in a skillet and serve hot with sweet soy sauce.