Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, nastar cookies (indonesian pineapple tarts). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) I love taking part in cooking and baking challenges! There is so much that you can learn about a country or a culture by researching their traditional recipes and the food customs related to them. Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) Christmas is coming soon and it's time to make Christmas cookies, and this is really very traditional in my home country Indonesia, when Christmas day or Eid day coming we always make this yummy cookies.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook nastar cookies (indonesian pineapple tarts) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts):
- Get Pineapple jam:
- Get 1 large pineapple or 2 pineapples
- Get 200 gram caster sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 5 cloves
- Prepare 2 stick cinnamon
- Take Egg wash:
- Take 3 eggs yolks
- Prepare 1 tsp condense milk
- Get 1 tsp honey
- Make ready For the cookies:
- Get 250 gram unsalted butter
- Prepare 250 gram margarine
- Get 700 gram allall-purpose flour
- Get 180 icing mixture
- Take 40 gram cornstarch
- Prepare 100 gram milk powder (full cream)
- Make ready 6 eggs yolks
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). Individually wrap the pineapple filling with the dough. You may choose to increase the amount of filling if you like.). Nastar itself is originally hereditary recipe from Dutch colony in Indonesia.
Steps to make Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts):
- For the jam : Peeled the pineapples and rub with some salt and then wash with clean water. Slice and blend with the blender until you get a smooth mixture Mix all ingredients and put them in a saucepan and let it simmer with low heat for few hours. Stir it occasionally until you get dry and thick mixture. Shape into small balls and place on baking paper-lined tray. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until needed.
- For the eggs wash: Mix together all ingredients in a small bow. Make sure the honey is dissolved well and the mixture is no longer lumpy.
- For the cookies doug : Mix butter, sugar, and egg yolks until soft and light. - Add the dry ingredients (both flours and milk powder) and mix until fully incorporated. If the mixture too wet, add some flour.
- Cover the dough and refrigerate for about 30 minutes until firm. - - Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line several cookie sheets with parchment.
- Roll the dough into 1-inch balls. Make a depression in the center of each ball and fill with pineapple jam filling. Pinch the edges of the dough back around the filling, and turn seam side down. Place on baking trays about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 15 minutes, take it out. Brush the tops of each cookie with egg wash and bake for another 15 minutes until shiny and golden. Cool on wire racks.
This cookie made during dutch colony in Indonesia. 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. These cookies are a must in every celebration in Indonesia! Chinese new year will not be complete without a jar of these wonderful buttery cookies, filled with sweet pineapple jam spiced with.
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