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Special Monggo Hopia- Hopia (hó-piá) is the best and popular Filipino bean filled pastry. Great for snacks!
INGREDIENTS
- Dough 1
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/2 cup Water
- pinch of Salt
- 1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1/4 cup Shortening (Crisco brand) or Lard
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 1/2 cup Mongo bean, boiled and mashed
- 1 can condensed milk
- Eggwash
- 2 egg yolks
Dough 2 Roll in fat
Filling
- Cook mongo with the water until it has turned into a thick paste and the mongo is mashed. Add 1 can of condensed milk. Chill until thoroughly cool.
- Meanwhile, make doughs. by mixing all the ingredients for dough 1 and separately dough 2.
- You could preheat the oven at 400 ° F.Mix all the dough ingredients together. In a separate container, mix the roll-in fat ingredients together.Roll out the dough in 1/2 inch thick and put the roll in fat in the center. Gather the edges to seal in the roll-in fat. Rest for a few minutes.Roll out the dough to flatten and fold in thirds, then set aside for a few minutes. Repeat this step twice, resting the dough after every handling.Flatten the dough and roll like a jelly roll. Cut to divide into 24 – 30 pieces, or depending to the size of hopia you want.Roll out with the cut side up, spoon the filling in. Collect all the sides to form a ball and flatten with the smooth side up.Lay the pieces on a baking pan and brush with eggwash.Bake for 15 – 20 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.