I got this radish recipe from the local newspapers. I want to try it so I thought I’ll park the recipe here first.
Photo source: LaRuth at Flickr
Ingredients
1 kg radish
250g pork belly
75g dried shrimps
400g rice flour
200g tapioca starch flour
50g shallots
5 dried chinese mushrooms
50g garlic
20g ground pepper
20g salt
100cc cooking oil
1400cc water
Directions
- Wash and peel the radish, shred thinly
- Wash the pork belly, parboil for about 10 minutes
- Cut the parboiled pork belly into thin strips
- Soak the dried shrimps in warm water until soft
- Drain and ground it in a food processor
- Soak the dried chinese mushrooms until re-hydrated
- Remove the mushroom stems and slice thinly
- Peel the shallots and slice thinly
- Peel the garlic and chop finely
- Sieve the tapioca starch flour and rice flour together
- Add the radish shreds, water and salt, mixed to form a batter
- Bring some oil in a wok and fry the shallots until golden brown
- Remove and put aside
- Lower the heat and fry the shrimps, mushrooms and garlic
- Add the fried mixture to the batter
- Mixed well
- Oil a large cake pan and pour in the mixture
- Steam the mixture for 45 minutes
- Remove from steamer
- Slice into serving sizes and garnish with shallots before serving
- Or slice thinly and fry with egg
