Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts). Indonesian Nastar Cookies have delicious pineapple inside. These cookies are eaten for Natale (Christmas), the Chinese New Year and Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr). They're also eaten in Malaysia and Singapore. Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts)

You can cook Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts)
  1. You need of Pineapple jam:.
  2. Prepare 1 of large pineapple or 2 pineapples.
  3. It’s 200 gram of caster sugar.
  4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
  5. It’s 5 of cloves.
  6. Prepare 2 stick of cinnamon.
  7. It’s of Egg wash:.
  8. It’s 3 of eggs yolks.
  9. Prepare 1 tsp of condense milk.
  10. It’s 1 tsp of honey.
  11. You need of For the cookies:.
  12. You need 250 gram of unsalted butter.
  13. Prepare 250 gram of margarine.
  14. You need 700 gram of allall-purpose flour.
  15. You need 180 gram of icing mixture (fine granulated sugar).
  16. It’s 40 gram of cornstarch.
  17. You need 100 gram of milk powder (full cream).
  18. You need 6 of eggs yolks.

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. 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. 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.

Nastar cookies (Indonesian pineapple tarts) instructions

  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..

  1. 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..

  2. 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 reason they are made and consumed during this time is because in the Hokkien language "ong lain" means "golden pear" and symbolizes. Pineapple tart or nanas tart is a small, bite-size pastries filled or topped with pineapple jam, commonly found throughout different parts of Southeast Asia such as Indonesia (kue nastar), Malaysia (Baba Malay: kueh tae or kuih tair, Malay language: kuih tat nanas), Brunei and Singapore in various forms. Nastar is a cookies from dough of flour , butter and eggs are filled with jam fruit pineapple. The origin of the Dutch language of "Tart Ananas". In Indonesian & English (the English version is below the recipe written in Indonesian).