Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pineapple cookies (kue nastar). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Pinch the edges of the dough back around the filling, and turn seam side down. These pineapple cookies called Kue Nenas or Kue Nastar in Indonesian, is one of the most popular traditional sweets to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The reason they are made and consumed during this time is because in the Hokkien language " ong lain " means " golden pear " and symbolizes prosperity, fortune and luck.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pineapple cookies (kue nastar) using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar):
- Get 400 gr margarine
- Prepare 100 gr butter
- Get 3 egg yolks
- Make ready 150 gr sugar powder / icing
- Get 50 gr milk powder
- Take 600-650 gr all-purpose flour
- Prepare Pineapple Jam for filling
- Make ready For the egg wash
- Take 2 egg yolks
- Prepare 2 tbs fresh milk
So, yep, these are seriously good melt-in-the-mouth pineapple tarts you don't want to miss! Every year when Chinese New Year approaches, my mother in law and her sisters all gather together for a multi-day baking marathon, churning out jars and jars of nastar (pineapple jam-filled cookies/pineapple tarts) and pans and pans of lapis legit (thousand layer cake). The cute cookies you see in the pictures are called Nastar cookies. Nastar or pineapple-filled cookie is one of the classic popular cookies in Indonesia.
Steps to make Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar):
- Mix the egg yolks, margarine, butter and sugar until the mixture rise and color change to pale yellow
- Add the milk powder and all-purpose flour in batches until you get the right consistency, not too hard, but no longer sticking on your hand
- The amount of flour you'll use might be different (slightly more or less) depending on how big us the yolks and the flour you use
- Then get approx. 20gr of dough, form a round shape and press the middle part to create a crater where you can add your pineapple jam in there
- Cover the jam with the dough, make a half-circled shape (or any shape), then place it on your baking tray
- Arrange it nicely once all the dough is filled with pineapple jam, then spread the egg wash on top of them
- Bake in a preheated oven with 180°c for approximately 25-30mins
- Once all the cookies are baked, let it cool before you place them in a jar.
- Store it in an airtight jar, it'll last for a month (if you haven't finished it by then) ☺️
You will see it everywhere during Chrismast, Chinese New Year, and Eid-al-Fitr. And for me, Eid-al-Fitr is not complete without this Nastar cookies. It has to be there, available on every table of every person's house. Indonesian called it as Nastar as the main ingredient of the cookie filling is ananas (Dutch word for pineapple) or nanas (Indonesian word for pineapple). And the word "Tar" came from word "Tart" which means cake or kue in Indonesian language.
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