Celebrate Chinese New Year With Turnip Cake Recipe

Chinese New Year is round the corner and its time to prepare for a great gala. A party without finger-licking dishes is quite impossible. Try out an easy cake recipe, that will surely pamper the taste-bud of your kith and kins.

Ingredients

Vegetable oil (2 tbs)
Fresh ginger root (2 slices)

Chinese five-spice powder (1 ½ tbs)

Chicken bouillon granules (½ tbs)

Ground white pepper (1 tbs)

Salt( 2 tbs)

Chinese dried mushrooms (8 ounces)

Dried Shrimp (1/3 cup)

Sliced Pork Sausage (1 pound)

White Rice Floor (2/3 pound)
Turnips (3)

Preparation

Take a frying pan and pour 2 tablespoons of refined oil. Heat and add mushrooms and shrimps, soaked overnight in water. Mix all with sausages and saute and cook the mixture for ½ minute. Transfer the stuff in a bowl and keep them aside. Clear the pan and heat 1 more tablespoon oil. To it add ginger, saute and stripped turnips. Stir and fry for 3 minutes. Add chinese spice powder, salt, white pepper, chicken bouillon and jerk the mixture upwardly, such that you can extract ginger slices easily. Turn off the heat.

Now, mix the cooked Turnip mixture with rice flour. Mix them nicely with the help of chopsticks or spoon. Add the cooked sausage mixture and transfer all into a deep round cake pan. Take a bowl filled with water and bring to boil. Place a round wire rack over the boiling water and place the cake pan. Let the cake steam on low heat. Check it after 45 minutes and the steamed cake is ready to be sliced into pieces. Serve hot or cool, depending upon the taste of  your guests.