Radish Cake

Yesterday afternoon, i made radish cake for today breakfast. Radish cake is actually very simple is just the preparation that needs some time.

The Recipe i used is as shown below:-

Ingredients: Makes one 7 inch square

1 radish (approx. 500g)
2 cups water
2 nos. chinese sausages, skinned then diced
4 nos. chinese mushrooms, soaked till soft then diced
20g dried shrimps, soaked till soft then roughly chopped
2 nos. shallots, sliced
3-4 tbsp oil, for frying
Extra oil for greasing
150g rice flour
30g wheat starch (tung min flour)

Seasoning:

1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp chicken granules (optional)
Few drops of sesame oil
Dash of pepper

Hoisin sauce to serve

Method:
Skin and cut radish with a knife to long thin strips.Place radish with 2 cups of water in a pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until radish is soft. Let cool.

Clean and grease a 7 inch square pan with oil.
Clean and soak both dried shrimps and dried mushrooms until soften. Chop dried shrimps slightly. Cut mushrooms into small cubes.
Soak chinese sausages in water to ease the removal of casing. Cut sausages into small cubes.

Heat up oil in a pan/wok. Fry sliced shallots until fragrant. Add in chinese sausages, mushrooms and dried shrimps and continue to fry until fragrant. Season with the seasoning ingredients. Set aside to let cool a little.
Drain cooked radish well. Save and obtain approx. 200ml of the juice from the boiling of radish. Pour away the excess or top up with water if not sufficient.
Combine rice flour and wheat starch in a large mixing bowl. Pour radish juice and mix with a hand whisk to obtain smooth batter. Add cooked radish and the rest of the fried ingredients into the batter . Mix well. Pour mixture into the greased pan. Steam over rapid boiling water for 1 hour or until chopstick inserted into radish cake comes out clean.

I pan fried it for breakfast this morning!

Does it looks just like what we buy from outside? keekee.But the texture is still abit soft. It might be because i cannot find the wheat starch over here or is maybe because i put too much water in. But overall, yummy!!