Singapore Style Pineapple Tarts

Submitted by Chef #452267

"Delicious Chinese New Year Treat"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 15

ingredients

• Filling

• 4 fresh pineapple
• 400 g caster sugar
• 4 cm piece cinnamon sticks
• 1 star anise, use 4 segments
• 4 cloves
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice or 2 tablespoons lime juice

• Crust

• 340 g plain flour
• 340 g cake flour
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 2 tablespoons icing sugar
• 450 g butter, cubed (Lurpak is great)
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 50 ml ice water
• 2 beaten eggs, for glaze

directions

1. Filling.
2. To make the jam, grate the pineapple coarsely.
3. Combine the grated pineapple with the rest of the ingredients in a heavy-based saucepan and cook over a moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture is almost dry.
4. Set aside to cool.
5. Pastry dough.
6. Put sifted flour, salt and sugar in a mixing bowl.
7. Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
8. Beat in the egg yolk and add ice-cold water and essence.
9. Mix well to form a dough.
10. Place in a plastic bag and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
11. Roll pastry out to 0.5 cm thickness on a lightly-floured tabletop and cut out rounds with a pie cutter.
12. Fill each piece of cut-out pastry with pineapple jam filling.
13. Pinch a small neat frill aroud the edging.
14. Cut thin strips of pastry to form a lattice on top of each pie.
15. Glaze the strips with beaten egg.
16. Place tarts on a greased baking tray and bake in preheated oven at 180°C for 15 minutes.
17. Reduce the temperature to 170°C and continue to bake for another 10 minutes or until golden.
18. Turn tarts out to cool on a wire rack before storing in air-tight containers.

Reviews

[Mariz S.]

I make it this cookies more perfect and more tasty. I make it simple and i do it from the bottom of my heart. Its perfect!!