Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pineapple cookies (kue nastar). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Pineapple tarts or what are often called Kue Nenas/ Kue Nastar in Indonesian language is one of the classic popular Chinese New Year cookies in Indonesia. Lumer means melt in the mouth in Bahasa.
Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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):
- Make ready 400 gr margarine
- Get 100 gr butter
- Make ready 3 egg yolks
- Prepare 150 gr sugar powder / icing
- Take 50 gr milk powder
- Make ready 600-650 gr all-purpose flour
- Make ready Pineapple Jam for filling
- Get For the egg wash
- Get 2 egg yolks
- Make ready 2 tbs fresh milk
These cookies are filled with spiced pineapple jam and they are popular for their melt-in-the-mouth texture. 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). 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.
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) ☺️
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. 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).
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