Eating China: Recipe for radish cake with pork and mushrooms

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Recipe for radish cake with pork and mushrooms Jun 27th 2011, 04:49 If you have eaten the popular commercially prepared version of radish cake in Taiwan or China, don't expect this to look or taste like that. Although you use four cooking methods (frying, simmering, steaming and frying) to complete the dish, it is fairly easy. Here's the recipe. 10–12 servings Ingredients 600 g (1.3 lb) daikon radish 6 dried shiitake (black) mushrooms 200 g (11.5 oz) minced pork 10 cloves shallots 900 ml water 3 tablespoons oyster sauce 1 tablespoon sugar ½ tablespoon salt ½ tablespoon white pepper ½ tablespoon five spice powder 300 g (11.5 oz) rice flour Vegetable oil Method Peel, and grate radish finely, put aside. Soak mushrooms until soft. Clean and trim stalks. Cut into short, thin strips. Cut shallots into short, thin strips. Heat some oil in a wok, add mushroom and shallots, and stir-fry at a medium heat for a few minutes until fragrant. Add minced pork, and continue to fry until brown. Add oyster sauce, sugar, salt, pepper and five spice powder. Fry for 2 minutes. Add radish to wok, mix in, continue to fry at medium heat until radish threads are soft (10–15 minutes). Add 500 ml of water, stir, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 2 minutes. In a large bowl, add 400 ml of water to rice flour, mix till smooth. Add to wok gradually, while continuing to stir as mixture thickens. Lightly grease a large pan. Place mixture into a pan. Sprinkle a little water on top of mixture and smooth it down with the back of a spoon. Steam for 40 minutes. Allow to cool before running a rounded knife around the inside edge of the pan and carefully turn the cake out onto a cutting board as you would for a sweet cake. Cut cake into 1 cm (1/2") slices, then cut into manageable size pieces for the frypan. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a flat frypan, and fry radish cake on each side until golden brown and crisp. Serve as is or with chilli or soy sauce.

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