Recipe: Appetizing Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies)

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). Nastar Gulung - Rolled Pineapple Tart Pineapple jam filling. My usual game plan is a two-day process. The first day I simply prepare the pineapple jam filling and let them chill in the fridge overnight so I can be extra sure it will be completely chilled when I shape my cookies. Chilled filling makes the shaping process so much easier.

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. Cookies with Pineapple Jam Filling (Nastar) Nastar, or tananas, are pineapple jam filled cookies. You can have Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies)

1. It's of for pineapple jam.
2. It's 1 of Ripe pineapple cut into cubes.
3. You need 150 grms of Sugar.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of Lemon juice.
5. You need of for the cookie dough.
6. You need 350 grms of Butter.
7. Prepare 100 grms of Condensed milk.
8. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
9. Prepare 500 grms of All purposeFlour.
10. You need of egg wash.
11. You need 1 of Egg yolk.
12. It's 1 tbsp of Milk.

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. 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.

Naster (Pineapple Jam filled cookies) instructions

1. 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..
2. 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.
3. Divide the dough equally and make small balls.Flatten the dough balls and fill our pineapple jam.
4. 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.
5. Enjoy the sweet and sour cookies as it is or with a cuppa tea / coffee.

Making pineapple jam is really time consuming. It takes few hours to cook it to the consistency where you can wrap it with the dough. 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.