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Title: Chinese New Year Turnip Cake
Categories: Chinese, Cakes
Yield: 8 Servings

3 c Rice flour; (480 g)
1 c Corn starch; (120 g)
8 lb Daiko radish; (3.6 kg)
12 Dried mushrooms
12 Dried scallops
Dried shrimp; to taste
2 1/2 c Water; for soaking dried
-ingredients
8 Cantonese sausages or
-Chinese ham
3 Shallots
2 ts Sugar
2 ts Salt
Pepper; to taste

Soak the dried mushrooms, scallops, and shrimp in water either
overnight or for several hours until they become soft. Reserve the
water to use later. You can use warm water when you're short for time.

Cook sausages in boiling water for 3 minutes, then remove the peel.

Peel the daikon radish. Shred half the radish and cut the other half
into thin slices. (Per Etta, cut all of the radish into thin slices.
Shredding it ruins the texture.)

Chop mushrooms, shrimp, scallops, and sausage.

Sift rice flour and corn starch into a large bowl. Slowly add 2-1/2
cups of the water you used earlier to soak the mushrooms, shrimp, and
scallops. Mix until all the clumps are gone.

Heat pan with no oil on high heat and add sausage. After the sausage
has released oil then add mushrooms, half the scallops, and half the
shrimp and stir fry until fragrant.

Chop the shallots, cook in the leftover sausage oil (can use 2 tb oil
if no sausage oil left). Cook shallots until fragrant, then add all
the radish and radish water. Add 2 ts sugar and cook until the radish
is cooked soft (about 10-15 minutes). No need to add water as the
radish will release its own water.

After the radish is done, add the salt and pepper, cook until water is
reduced, then add stir fried sausage mixture from the earlier step.
Slowly add rice flour corn starch mixture and mix well.

Oil the container. Add mixture to just below the brim. Sprinkle the
remaining dried shrimp and dried scallops on top.

Steam for 45 minutes. If you can poke a wooden chopstick into it and
nothing sticks to it the radish cake should be done. Add toasted
sesame or cilantro on top to garnish.

This recipes makes three 8" cakes or four 7" cakes.

Recipe by Wincy Tung

Recipe FROM:
<http://sweetheartkitchen.com/recipes/chinese-new-year-turnip-cake/>

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