Chinese Turnip Cake (萝白糕)

Step 1

We'll be prepping several ingredients here:

Step 2

We'll need to cook everything for a bit and add some flavors before it becomes a turnip cake mix that we can steam.

Step 3

While our wok is cooking, we'll prepare our cake pan by:

Step 4

Once the turnip mix is done cooking in the wok, we'll prepare for steaming.

Step 5

To tell if the cake is done, you can stick a chopstick straight into the pan.

Step 6

While the cake pan is still in the steamer, we'll sprinkle some of our leftover Chinese sausage onto the pan and cover it for 30 seconds.

Step 7

Once it's cooled, you can take the turnip cake out from the pan however you'd like, but my dad has a pretty elegant sequence: