Peanut Rolls - Nutty Treats #5

This is another treat I made for my demo. It was such a coincidence that I made so much stuff with nuts, LOL. Guess I went nuts this year.

This idea came in a sudden and I merged the idea of baklava with the popular CNY goodie that is the peanut puff (Kok Chai). Crispy fragrant pastry skin with sandy peanut filling. Ahh, Heaven for me. Baked rolls uses much less fat than deep fried.and again, peanut with ghee is match made in heaven. Yaya, I didn't use phyllo, but popiah skin is almost like it... just treat it like it :)

There are a few things to note:
1. Brush the ghee all over, thinly on one side, except for the egg wash corner.
2. Don't ground the peanut as fine as powder. Fine but not too fine.
3. Caster sugar seems too fine for this, use fine granulated instead.(gula pasir halus)
4. You can use egg white instead of whole egg for sealing.
5. Don't roll it way too tight, keep the filling loose., but neatly tucked in.
6. Bake the rolls thoroughly, if not, they won't be crispy and stay crispy.

You can use other nuts too, if you like. Cashew sounds good too, but peanut is very fragrant.
The filling looks loose when you roll it up, but after baking it's ok. It will loosen in the mouth as you chew, but not the moment when you bite it open. If the nuts and sugar is too fine, you loose the sandy effect, but all sweet and compact. Not as nice, if you ask me.

Peanut Rolls
Recipe source: WendyinKK
Makes 100 rolls

25 sheets frozen popiah skin (7.5 X7.5inches), thawed at room temperature
250gm toasted peanut, ground
180gm fine granulated sugar
50gm melted ghee (you may need more or less) or clarified butter
1 egg, beaten (for sealing)

1. Mix ground peanut with sugar.
2. Cut each popiah skin into 4 squares each.
3. Brush surface of popiah skin with melted ghee.
4. Put 1 tsp of peanut mixture onto the popiah skin and wrap up like a mini spring roll.
5. Brush the top corner with some egg and seal the wrapping.
6. Repeat step 3-5 until complete
7. Preheat oven at 160(fan)/180C.
8. Arrange the wrapped rolls onto a baking tray and bake for 15 minutes or until lightly golden and crispy.