Homemade Sweet Appetizer
- 100 grams flour, all-purpose
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 25 grams butter chilled
- 1/2 large egg yolks beaten
- 50 millilitres water cooled
- 200 grams coconut, shredded (desiccated)
- 100 millilitres coconut pani/treacle
- 1/4 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- First, make the dough: Sift the flour into a large bowl.
- Add salt.
- Mix.
- Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Next add approximately 1/2 of the beaten egg yolk and the water.
- Mix well using your hands.
- Try to work quickly.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for 10 -15 minutes.
- Put your desiccated coconut in a heatproof bowl.
- Set aside for a moment.
- Next, in a thick bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to boil (you need it to be around 100C degrees so use a thermometer).
- Then add the hot pani mixture to the desiccated coconut and mix well.
- Let cool.
- Now take the dough and roll out into a large square that is about 18 inch thick, using a rolling pin.
- Cut it into 8 squares (3x3 inch) using a sharp knife.
- If you want to decorate the tops of the appetizers with extra pieces of dough, you can make the squares just a bit smaller and save the extra dough for use in a few minutes.
- Now place one teaspoon of filling mixture in the center of each square of dough.
- Brush the edges of each square with the remaining 1/2 of the beaten egg yolk or you can use water.
- Fold the bottom half of the dough over to meet the edges of the top half (you are making a triangle).
- Use a fork to seal the edges.
- After that, you can decorate the pastry with small flowers or whatever is your preferred shape.
- Ive done this in the photo above you can use scraps of the dough and cut out small flowers (using a small flower cookie cutter or a knife) and then place the flowers on the tops of the appetizers.
- Next place appetizers on greased baking tray, and take the remaining 1/2 of the beaten egg and brush over the tops.
- Bake at 200 cup for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Enjoy.
flour, salt, butter, egg yolks, water, coconut, coconut pani, cinnamon, sugar
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/homemade-sweet-appetizer-52188 (may not work)