Turnip Cake Recipes (Char Koay Kak, Lo Bak Go, Chai Tow Kway)
We sharing 4 ways to serve this cake : Steamed, Grilled, Fried, Deep Fried Turnip Cake.Ps: Set aside the Steamed Turnip Cake and let it cold down then you can keep in container and put it in fridge.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 500 g White Radish
- 300 ml Water (for soak dried shrimp)
- 700 ml Water
- 400 g Rice Flour
- 40 g Wheat Starch
- 25 g Garlic
- 25 g Dried Shrimp
- 4 tbsp Lard
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1 tbsp Soy Saucea
- 2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
Instructions
- 1
Soak the dried shrimp in 300ml of water.
- 2
Peel and slice the white radish and set aside.
- 3
Mince the garlic and set aside.
- 4
Pound the soaked dried shrimp.
- 5
Sift the rice flour and wheat starch, add the soaked dried shrimp's water and another 700ml of water and seasoning then stir well.
- 6
Add lard to pan sauté garlic and dried shrimp and then add white radish fry until fragrant.
- 7
Slowly pour the flour paste and stir fry over medium-low heat until thick and fill in to the mold (pour a little oil and wipe the mold with a brush).
- 8
Steam with medium heat for 1 hour.
- 9
After cooling, remove the mold and cut slices.
- 10
Pour oil into a hot pot and wait until the oil temperature rises to bubbling. Put two sliced carrot cake in hot oil
- 11
Deep Fried until golden brown and take out put on strainer to drain oil.
- 12
Add a tablespoon of lard to the hot pan. Pan fried the steamed radish cake until the surface is slightly burnt.
- 13
Add an egg into it
- 14
Fry until the egg cooked.
- 15
Add 1 tablespoon of lard to the hot pan. Add the diced radish cake and pour in a little dark soy sauce then stir-fry until the surface is slightly burnt
- 16
Add another 1 tablespoon of lard and add preserved radish and chives.
- 17
Add a teaspoon of chili paste.
- 18
Add in bean sprouts.
- 19
Add an egg and stir fry until it cooked.