For last night Cookalong I would love to have a go at making Popiah, but I have not got a cast iron pan so I could not make them yet. I made something different & totally non-Malaysian. I made “Apple Rose pastry!
Every autumn a couple from our church will gift us their apple harvest & I will use some of their apples to make sweet treats like apple pie, apple crumble, apple tarts & etc for them to enjoy. This year I wanted to surprise them with something they would never expect — the “Apple Rose” pastry.
As Jackie expertly crafted her crispy fried onions and the savoury beef balls, filling her kitchen with mouthwatering aromas, and Cathy carefully prepared the fish paste to stuff her aubergines, I was busy rolling out my puff pastry & cutting them out into long strips of 2inch width. I spread apricot jam onto each pastry strip and then lay on each strip with the tender apple slices. I then sprinkled cinnamon powder over the apples slices followed by folding the pastry over & rolled it up together with the apple slices in it to form a rose. I made a dozen of them & put them to bake in the oven for 20 - 25 minutes. I could not wait to gift them to our friends and bask in the delight of our friends’ reaction.