Turnip/Kohlrabi Cake


Turnip cake, but made from Kohlrabi

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 cupswater
5 (approx)dried shiitake mushrooms (soaked and diced)
< 1 small tinspam (instead of chinese sausage)
1.25 cupsrice flour
1 Tbspcornstarch
0.5 tsppowdered bonito stock
white pepper
crispy onions

Instructions

  1. Heat up a large frying pan with some oil and fry the spam til it looks a little crispy
  2. Add shiitake and fry
  3. Remove the spam and shiitake and set aside in a bowl
  4. Dump the grated kohlrabi into the same frying pan and simmer for approx 10 mins
  5. In a mixing bowl, combine the rice flour, cornstarch and bonito stock powder
  6. Dump the cooked kohlrabi into the mixing bowl and combine. You can add up to 1.5 cups of boiling water.
  7. Put the batter into a oiled / non-stick loaf tin
  8. Steam for 50 mins in a medium-high heat
  9. Remove the tin from the steamer and rest of 30 minutes
  10. Remove the kohlrabi from the pan and slice into slabs
  11. Before eating, pan-fry the kohlrabi slices with some oil so that the edges are cripsy
  12. 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.)