Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts)
Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts)

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Indonesian Nastar Cookies have delicious pineapple inside. These cookies are eaten for Natale (Christmas), the Chinese New Year and Lebaran (Eid Nastar Pineapple Cookies. These cookies are a must in every celebration in Indonesia!

Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have nastar cookies (indonesian pineapple tarts) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts):
  1. Get Pineapple jam:
  2. Take 1 large pineapple or 2 pineapples
  3. Prepare 200 gram caster sugar
  4. Take 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Prepare 5 cloves
  6. Get 2 stick cinnamon
  7. Take Egg wash:
  8. Prepare 3 eggs yolks
  9. Prepare 1 tsp condense milk
  10. Make ready 1 tsp honey
  11. Prepare For the cookies:
  12. Take 250 gram unsalted butter
  13. Prepare 250 gram margarine
  14. Make ready 700 gram allall-purpose flour
  15. Prepare 180 icing mixture
  16. Make ready 40 gram cornstarch
  17. Take 100 gram milk powder (full cream)
  18. Get 6 eggs yolks

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. Yummy melt-in-your-mouth pineapple tarts with easy to shaped dough, won't expand during baking and filled with pineapple jam bursting with cinnamon and cloves. Nastar is a cookies from dough of flour , butter and eggs are filled with jam fruit pineapple.

Steps to make Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

The origin of the Dutch language of "Tart Ananas". In Indonesian & English (the English version is below the recipe written in Indonesian). Selai beku akan memudahkan prosedur pembentukan nastar & juga akan mempertahankan suhu adonan kue agar tetap dingin setlh proses pembungkusan dng tangan. These Pineapple tarts or Pineapple cookies are small bite size pastry filled with pineapple jam. The cookies are soft and melt in the mouth.

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