Kath's Wonderlab: Pineapple Tart

Just wanna share bout what happen in my kitchen ( & living room...) when I was free.....

Plenty of experiments happen in here.....And 1 of it was about.....The Pineapple Tart!

Title

Pineapple Tart (original recipe from http://zuzu88.blog.sohu.com/110691549.html)

Purpose

Produce some homemade Pineapple Tarts that taste like the Taiwanese version and not so sweet according to my liking.

Materials


Filling:
1 whole Pineapple
1 whole Winter melon (S size)
Castor Sugar + Brown Sugar
Maltose (麦芽糖)

Pastry (Sable Dough):

Flour
Icing Sugar
Butter
Egg

Procedure

1. Remove skin and seeds and cut pineapple and winter melon into small piece.

2. Blend it.

3. Combine the blended fruits in a sauce pan/pot, and cook in medium heat. (Be careful while heating the filling, cause when it's boiling, it might spit out)

4. When the liquid of the filling reduce to half, put in the sugar (for the sweet taste, so I just put the amount that I think is enough). The original recipe only use castor sugar, but since I have some brown sugar, might as well give it a try.....

5. When the filling cooked till almost dried out, put in the maltose (also for the sweet taste, so put as much as u like.....). Keep stir the filling once a while to prevent it from burn.

6. And finally (not so final), I've got my homemade pineapple paste!

7. Prepare the pastry. First, cream the butter. Then, mix in the dry ingredients. Finally, mix in the egg and refrigerate for more than 2 hours before use.

8. Roll the pineapple paste to form some balls. ( I use around 3/4 tbs of the paste to form 1 ball)

9. Do the same to the dough. (make sure is big enough to cover the paste ball) If the dough is too soft and sticky, cover with some plain flour, by using this way, it is easier to roll.

10. Finally, make some pineapple dumplings out of this 2 things, and send into the oven with 170 degree preheat (20 minutes).

Result

Quite a success for a first time try. (^_^)

Conclusions

1. Be extra careful while boiling the filling, cause it spit out and hurt my hand...

2. Brown sugar don't give much fragrant to the paste, so just stick to the original castor sugar.

3. Some says the paste should not be so smooth, should have some fruit to chew. So maybe next time, I should not blend all the fruits. Should left some, and cut it into smaller piece, then cook together with the rest.