I grew up seeing the way how Filipino made a Bean Paste which is usually made up of Condensed milk to make it sweeter instead of sugar, the condensed milk gives a creamier & sweet taste and it taste really good but, because of our weather I decided not to use condensed milk this time.

In our weather (Philippines), we have this really weird weather. Sometimes, it gets cold and hot. So, we tend to adjust some of our food (good example is our Adobo and this recipe for dessert) to make it last longer without wasting it.

As far as I know any kind of food that contains milk can easily be spoiled not unless if you have the refrigerator which probably a lot of people nowadays have their own ref so it’s fine. Replace sugar to condensed milk if you prefer it.

In this recipe, I make this filling with sugar, glutinous rice flour that serves as thickener, then add salt to balance the sweetness and Kidney Beans. You can use any kind of beans you want if this is not available. All types of beans taste the same for me.

Sweet Potato can be used as well with the same ingredients here in this recipe, I tried it here and it surprisingly tastes really good which is a best filling for Buchi or Hopia.



And for sweetener, you can substitute sugar to honey but you have to adjust it according to the level of your sweet taste preference.

This Bean Paste Filling can be used as filling for Mooncakes, Hopia, Bread, Cupcake, Palitaw, Buchi (Sesame Balls), Siopao (Steamed Buns) and many more. Well, it is up to you how adventurous or creative you are :)

I do not have Pressure cooker but if you have one, the better. Since I don’t have one, I just soak this overnight, boil then manually mashed it with my strainer but luckily I was able to borrow a blender.

The blender I used in the video is from my mother’s co-teacher. Unfortunately, my blender isn’t functioning well. Thanks to her co-teacher hahahaha. My mother gave them some of the food that I made few days ago in return for letting me borrow their blender for one week (hahahaha).



So, here is the very simple recipe of our homemade kidney bean paste. I hope you try this too.

Tools needed for making this:

Pot
Non-stick pan
Blender or strainer (do it manually by straining the boiled beans)