Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies). 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). Cookies with Pineapple Jam Filling (Nastar) Nastar, or tananas, are pineapple jam filled cookies. Nastar is a small cookies filled with pineapple jam and really very easy to make at home. These are popular treats for Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas celebrations in Indonesia. Peel pineapple, wash and make pineapple purée; Put pineapple.
Nastar is one of Indonesian's sweets that are very popular.
It is filled with fresh homemade pineapple jam.
Once you bite, nastar will melt inside your mouth and continue with the taste of the jam.
You can cook Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies)
- You need of for pineapple jam.
- You need 1 of Ripe pineapple cut into cubes.
- You need 150 grms of Sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of Lemon juice.
- You need of for the cookie dough.
- It's 350 grms of Butter.
- You need 100 grms of Condensed milk.
- You need 2 of Eggs.
- It's 500 grms of All purposeFlour.
- You need of egg wash.
- You need 1 of Egg yolk.
- You need 1 tbsp of Milk.
The combination of sweet, sour, and butter make nastar turn to be a special cookies in. Nastar is a small cookies filled with pineapple jam and quite simple to make. I might say that the majority of the work is on making pineapple jam. Making pineapple jam is really time consuming.
Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies) step by step
- Beat the butter and the condensed milk till creamy.Add egg at 5 min intervals.Then gradually add the flour and make a soft dough..
- For Jam - Cube the pineapples and add the sugar and the lemon juice.Cook the pineapples till they are add mushy and all the moisture is dried up.If u want u can blend the jam too.
- Divide the dough equally and make small balls.Flatten the dough balls and fill our pineapple jam.
- Seal the jam and place the biscuits on the baking tray.Whisk the egg yolk and milk and brush the cookies with the yolk.Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 165 The Celsius for 20 to 25 min.
- Enjoy the sweet and sour cookies as it is or with a cuppa tea / coffee.
It takes few hours to cook it to the consistency where you can wrap it with the dough. 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. The golden color and sweet taste of the pineapple. Pinch the edges of the dough back around the filling, and turn seam side.