Saturday, February 9, 2019

蘿蔔糕 (菜頭粿/好彩頭)Radish Cake

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1 pound rice flour
3 c water
3 pound shredded radish 
6 oz dried squid ( finely diced)
ground white pepper
salt

You won't believe how easy is to make this dish, beside water and flavoring, you only need 3 ingredients.

I didn't purposely pick the dried squid as one of the ingredients. The other day I happened to buy one pack of dried squid and not knowing what should I do with it. Then it came the Chinese new year day, so I thought why don't I use it for the radish cake!? It came out really good. Make sure to wash the dried squid and then soak them in the water for at least one day prior of using it.

Stir fry the squid and radish with salt and ground white pepper until it's fully cooked, while cooking you can mix the rice flour and water smoothly in a bowl. When the radish is cooked, pour in with the flour and water mixture, mix them together really well.

Transfer the mixture into a lightly greased inner pot, add 2 cups of water in the outer pot, steam with Tatung Multi Cooker and Steamer, when done, insert a chopstick into the cake. If it comes out clean, then it is ready.

You can either eat the radish cake warm right after it's cooked or pan fry it. 

If you are going to pan fry it, then you have to leave it until completely cool (best overnight in the refrigerator), so that the radish cake will firm up. For it will be easier to cut it, as it will not stick to the knife when you cut them into thin slices.

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