Green bean puff pastry(绿豆酥)

Ingredients:

【Skin A】:
-  All purpose flour - 1 cup
-  Clarified butter - 3.5 TBSP
- Sugar - 1.5 TBSP
- Water - 4 TBSP
【Skin B】:
- Cake flour - 3/4 cup
- Green tea powder - 1 TBSP
- Clarified butter - 4 TBSP
【Filling】:
- Peeled dried green bean - half bag 200g
- Water - 2 cup
- Sugar - 0.5 - 0.75 cup
- Sweetened condensed milk - 2 TBSP
- Oil - 1/4 cup
- Corn starch - 1.5 TBSP

Steps:

1. Make the filling by boiling the peeled green bean and pan fry with other ingredients. Details in Green bean snowy moon cake (绿豆冰皮月饼).
2. Portion the green bean filling to 30-35g balls. Make 16 of them.

3. Mix ingredients for Skin A in one mixing bowl and knead the dough A until it is smooth and soft. If the dough is too dry, drop in more water.

 4. Mix ingredients for Skin B in another mixing bowl and knead the dough B until it is smooth and soft. If the dough is too dry, drop in more clarified butter.
5. Cover the dough and let them sitting for 20 minutes.
6. Split the dough A and dough B into 8 equal portions. Roll them into balls.

7. Flatten the white ball and wrap it around green ball.

8. Flatten the wrapped ball into long oval shape with a rolling pin, and then roll it up by hand.

9. Make all 8 rolls. Cover them and let them sit for 10 minutes.
10. Let the end of the roll facing up, and flatten the roll with a rolling pin, and then roll it up by hand again.

10. Make all 8 rolls, cover them and let them sit for 10 minutes.
11. Take a roll, and cut it in the middle with a knife. Now you can see the marble inside.

12. Use rolling pin to roll each piece into a circle about 3 inch diameter. Wrap a green bean filling ball inside. NOTE: the marbled side should facing out when you wrap the filling.

13. Place the complete pastry on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

14. Preheat oven to 350°F. Then put in the baking sheet to bake for 35 minutes.

Follow up:

Daughter wants red bean filling, so I cut each skin dough size in half, replace green tea powder with Cocoa powder, and make the mini red bean puff pastry. Those bite size pastry is just the right size for snack.