Moon cake filling - Chocolate, Green tea, and Strawberry

The northern beans taste bland and are beige-colored. It is a good medium to make different flavor moon cake fillings.

Make the white bean paste

This is same as making green bean paste, or red bean paste.

Ingredients:

Dried Northern Bean - 1 bag, 14oz (400g)
Butter - 45g
Oil - 45g
Sugar - 0.5 Cup (you can add more sugar later when you are adjusting the flavor)
Sweetened condensed milk - 4 TBSP
Corn starch - 3 TBSP

Steps:

1. Soak the beans overnight in water.

2. Boiling until the beans are soft. After cooked, drain excessive water if possible.
3. Mix the cooked bean with blender to make sure it is smooth. Stir in sugar, oil, sweetened condensed milk.

4. In a large fry pan, add butter. When butter is melted, pour in the mixture and simmer under low heat. Gradually sift in corn starch with flour sifter until the mixture can be folded with spatula easily.

5. Take mixture out of fry pan and let it cool down. Chill it in refrigerator. If you do not plan to use it within a day, you can put it in sealed container in freezer.

Get Creative

Pour the white bean paste in an electrical mixer, then start to add different flavors, a teaspoon at a time. If the paste gets too dry, add some corn oil; if the paste is not sweet enough, add powdered sugar. If the paste gets too slushy, you may need to simmer it again in a frying pan, and add more corn starch. 

Chocolate filling: 

Add coco powder

Green tea filling: 

Add green tea powder

Mocha filling: 

Add coco powder and instant coffee powder.

Strawberry filling: 

Blend in some strawberry jam during step 3 and reduce the amount of sugar used, depends on the sweetness of your jam.