Pastel Mini - Indonesia Cooking Recipes

Pastel may be a name of snack or appetizer in Indonesia. It's quite pastry then fill with completely different quite filling. I do not recognize precisely where this food originally came from, since I additionally
see similar food in alternative countries. however it's standard across the country and therefore the solely factor that create completely different is that the filling. There are a pair of completely different varieties of Pastel in Indonesia. One has traditional size that typically fills with carrot, potatoes, chicken/beef meat, boiled egg, and bean thread noodles (soun). whereas the opposite is mini Pastel that is smaller, fills with Abon (dried beef) and frequently for light-weight snack.

Category: Appetizer

Difficulty: Medium

Cooking time: forty five minutes

Serving for  4-5 individuals

Ingredients

- 250 g plain flour

- forty g butter

- 1 egg

- 1/2 tablespoon sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- sixty ml lukewarm water

- a hundred and fifty g Abon (dried beef) for filling

Directions

1. create the pastry: combine butter with egg, flour, sugar salt with hand. Then slowly pour the water whereas continue kneading till the feel isn't any longer sticky and you'll roll it. When the dough remains too soft, you will add flour.

2.  Roll the dough into 1/4 cm skinny and cut into a cylinder with five cm diameter. Take a pinch of Abon and place within the centre. Fold pastry over to form 0.5 cylinder and crimp at edges.

3. Before frying, store them within the fridge for half-hour to form them firm.

4.  Deep fry the pastry with heap of oil till golden brown.