Red Bean Pastries

These little pastries do not have the traditional chinese red bean pastry wrappers made of lard. They are made of easy ingredients, but turn out to be flaky and wonderful.  The red bean paste in these are basically shelled and cooked red beans that are mashed and sweetened.  However, the ingredients are definitely not the healthiest combo, making them quite the addicting treat.  So if you would like, just go ahead and enjoy the pictures.  And if you dare, go ahead and check out the recipe!  Also, I did not have a hard copy of the recipe, so I used my three year old memory-they turned out great though!  

Complete!

Check out that flaky crust and yummy filling!

                                                                   Pretty, pretty pastry!

Ingredients

1. 4 C flour

2. 2 sticks of butter

3. 8 oz. bar of cream cheese

4. 1 tsp salt

5. 1 can or bag of fine red bean paste (The difference is the one that is not fine is made of red bean with the shell)

6. 1 egg

What to do

1. Beat the butter and cream cheese together on medium speed until combined

2. Slowly incorporate flour and salt into the butter and cream cheese until it forms a ball of dough

3. Cut off a chunk of dough and roll into a 1 inch diameter ball

4. Flatten it out with a rolling pin into a 4 inch round

5. Put in some red bean filling

6. Fold it in half and press the edges together.  You can do this two ways:  1) Make them dumpling style and then fold in the edges (I'll make another blog post about how to shape dumplings. and 2) Press  them with a fork, like a hand pie

7. Brush with beaten egg

8. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes

9. EAT UP YUM.

BONUS PICTURE OF MY STUFFED SHEEP JOEY PLANKING AROUND A FRIDGE FIND MEAL.  THANKS FOR READING!