Turnip/Kohlrabi Cake
Modified from the Turnip Cake recipe from The Woks Of Life using stuff that I could find from Ocado (my online delivery supermarket) as I couldn’t be bothered to get to Chinatown for supplies.
Ingredients
350g (approx) | kohlrabi (grated) |
1 to 1.5 cups | water |
5 (approx) | dried shiitake mushrooms (soaked and diced) |
< 1 small tin | spam (instead of chinese sausage) |
1.25 cups | rice flour |
1 Tbsp | cornstarch |
0.5 tsp | powdered bonito stock |
white pepper | |
crispy onions |
Instructions
- Heat up a large frying pan with some oil and fry the spam til it looks a little crispy
- Add shiitake and fry
- Remove the spam and shiitake and set aside in a bowl
- Dump the grated kohlrabi into the same frying pan and simmer for approx 10 mins
- In a mixing bowl, combine the rice flour, cornstarch and bonito stock powder
- Dump the cooked kohlrabi into the mixing bowl and combine. You can add up to 1.5 cups of boiling water.
- Put the batter into a oiled / non-stick loaf tin
- Steam for 50 mins in a medium-high heat
- Remove the tin from the steamer and rest of 30 minutes
- Remove the kohlrabi from the pan and slice into slabs
- Before eating, pan-fry the kohlrabi slices with some oil so that the edges are cripsy
- Add some toppings (I like the dumping some store-bought crispy onions on it and drizzling with soy sauce. Also add chillis and spring onions if you do not have a picky toddler.)