Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, nastar / pineapple cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Flatten each dough, place the pineapple jam filling at the center, gather the edges of the dough and wrap the filling with the dough. Roll into a round ball, then place on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat for the rest of the dough and jam filling.
Nastar / Pineapple Cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Nastar / Pineapple Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook nastar / pineapple cookies using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nastar / Pineapple Cookies:
- Get Pineapple jam
- Prepare 500 g pineapple without peels
- Get 3 g whole cloves *optional or adjust to taste
- Take 1 cinnamon stick *optional or adjust to taste
- Get 150 g granulated sugar
- Take Cookie dough
- Prepare 37 g unsalted butter
- Make ready 37 g margarine
- Prepare 30 g icing sugar
- Make ready 1 large egg yolk
- Take 15 g custard powder *can replace with cornstarch
- Prepare 120 g all-purpose flour
- Take Egg wash
- Get 1 large egg yolk
- Prepare 15 ml (1 tbsp) vegetable oil
- Get 5 ml (1 tsp) sweetened condensed milk
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. Indonesian Nastar Cookies have delicious pineapple inside. These cookies are eaten for Natale (Christmas), the Chinese New Year and Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr).
Steps to make Nastar / Pineapple Cookies:
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- Pineapple jam: Grate the pineapple or blend with a food processor. Transfer the shredded pineapple and its juice along with cinnamon stick and cloves into a heavy-bottom pan. Cook over medium heat and stir occasionally until the liquid is gone.
- Add sugar and continue cooking until it has a thick jam consistency but with no liquid. Keep stirring towards the end so it does not burn.
- Remove from the pan and cool it to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes (up to a week). It will become easier to handle and less sticky.
- Divide the pineapple jam evenly into 32 pieces (6g each). Roughly roll each into a ball. Refrigerate until needed.
- Cookie dough: Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and margarine together for 1 minute on medium speed. Add sugar and beat for another minute just to combine.
- Add egg yolk and mix briefly for 10 seconds. Then sieve the custard powder and flour into the bowl. Mix until it forms a uniform dough. If the dough feels sticky, add a little more flour (1 teaspoon at a time). Add butter if it's dry. It should be easily formed into a ball without crumbling or sticking.
- Divide the dough into 32 pieces (8g each). Shape each into a ball.
- Press the ball in between your palms to make a thin disk. Place 1 piece of pineapple jam on the center. Wrap it and pinch the edges closed. Roll it back into a ball and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with the rest.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 300°F (150°C) for 30 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack before applying egg wash for the second bake.
- Egg wash: Whisk together all of the ingredients to fully combine.
- Brush each of the cookies with the egg wash. After the first coat has set, apply a second coat. These multiple coats will conceal any visible cracks and create a shiny yellow crust.
- Return into the oven at 325°F (160°C) and bake for 10-15 minutes until slightly brown. Let cool then enjoy!
They're also eaten in Malaysia and Singapore. Lin wrote the following about them from Indonesia: Nastar (Indonesian Pineapple-filled Cookies) Nastar or pineapple-filled cookie is one of the classic popular cookies in Indonesia. 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. In a large bowl, cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
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