Pineapple Jam Cookies (Nastar)
Nastar, is one of the favorite snacks that is very popular in my country. This one snack is a must-have snack when the holidays arrive. So, this snack itself is sold at a pretty fantastic price per kg of cake, reaching IDR. 130,000 or even more, depending on how premium the snacks you want to buy are. The selling power is expensive, and it is made from several materials that are relatively expensive in the market, making this cake expensive. Well, many people know that this cake is also not difficult to make, but what makes people reluctant to make it is because the process is quite long. The making process takes approximately 6 hours, making the jam, even in molding the dough.
This is not the first time I have made nastar, every year it is my routine to prepare some Eid cakes including nastar. Although sometimes I'm lazy to make it because of work piling up. But this time I have a lot of free time to fill it by making this favorite snack.
Nastar itself is a snack made from a mixture of several ingredients, such as flour, butter and eggs like normal cookies, with pineapple jam filling inside. Therefore, this food is very popular as nastar. Now this snack always has to start by preparing the jam first. I usually prepare the jam the night before I start making the cookies. Here I will show you how to make easy pineapple jam.
How to make Nastar Jam
Ingredients
2 pineapples
300 grams of sugar
2 Cinnamon
1 sdt salt
2 pandan leaves
Preparation Steps
To make pineapple jam that is fibrous and easy to shape later when making nastar cookies, you need to pay attention to several good steps. Here I will invite you to do the following preparation steps!
My first step was to peel the pineapple skin and cut it into several pieces.
Blend half of the pineapple until smooth, then grate the other half so that the jam is fibrous.
Cook the pineapple that has been juiced, then add the cinnamon, then add the 3 pandan leaves that have been concluded.
Cook until the water is reduced, after the jam starts to shrink a little, add sugar and a teaspoon of salt.
Cook until the jam really doesn't contain water so it's easy to shape later.
After preparing delicious jam, and having the texture that I expected, I started to prepare some ingredients to continue making nastar cookies. Well making nastar always makes me excited, how should I prepare the ingredients, and shop at the market. It gets me excited and I really love doing it, I love shopping as well as in the kitchen so making it will be easier.
Believe in making cookies that you think are difficult, if you do it with a happy heart and even like it, everything will be easier. Well, do you experience what I experienced, well, I think it's a natural attitude.
How to Make Nastar Cookies
Ingredients
To taste pineapple jam
350 grams of wheat flour
200 grams of butter
2 yolks
100 grams of powdered sugar
50 grams of cornstarch
cheese to taste (optional)
1 teaspoon of baking soda
Step Create
Step 1I started forming pineapple jam, round shape.
Step 2Mixer butter, with powdered sugar, until just stirred evenly, don't take too long.
Step 3Then add the egg yolks and mix thoroughly. Add soda, flour, cornstarch and mix well.
Step 4Knead it evenly until it is smooth, then take 1 small cup the size of a teaspoon so that the shape is uniform.
Step 5Flatten and add pineapple jam, then shape round like a marble until the surface is smooth so that your nastar is beautiful.
Step 6Put it in a small cup container then arrange it in a baking dish.
Step 7Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 150 degrees.
Step 8Then remove from the oven and rub the egg yolks that have been mixed with cooking oil.
Step 9Sprinkle grated cheese according to your taste, bake again for 20 minutes at 120 degrees.
Result
Nastar cookies are ready to eat, store nastar in an airtight container so they can last a long time. Now serve these cookies to be enjoyed with your family while relaxing or having tea. The natural taste of homemade pineapple jam is completely different, the combination of real pineapple aroma and pandan leaves and cinnamon makes it a favorite jam. You can make pineapple jam yourself as jam to enjoy bread, just don't cook it too dry.
The taste is savory, the melted cookkies are very delicious, the combination of pineapple jam with these cookies is very delicious. I really like it when it's ripe I immediately tried it and was able to finish a few seeds of this cake.
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A woman, firm and stubborn who is called "Nurul", born in July 1993, comes from Indonesia, Aceh province. My daily activity is work.
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