I haven't had kaya in ages. (Kaya: coconut egg butter) Unless you count that one bite of a bun filled with kaya... Anyway, I made some homemade healthy gula melaka kaya :) The traditional way uses whole eggs and is extremely tedious. It involves stirring kaya for over an hour. This kaya however, can be made in minutes! It's absolutely delicious, even better than the regular kind you can buy in bottles at the grocery store. My family loves it! Gula melaka is coconut palm sugar. I used pre-crushed-up gula melaka but yours may come in a "rock" form, so be sure to chop it up first.
It goes lovely with slightly burnt toast.
What you'll need
3 pandan leaves
Splash of water
1 pandan leaf
3 egg yolks, stir together
200ml full fat coconut milk
70-80g gula melaka
How to
1. Blend 3 pandan leaves with a splash of water, about 1 tbsp (or more if you really need to).
2. Squeeze pandan leaf mixture through a sieve and get out as much liquid as possible. This will be your homemade pandan extract.
3. Put coconut milk, gula melaka and pandan extract in a sauce pan, stir and simmer. Let gula melaka dissolve completely.
4. Next pour some of the hot coconut milk mix in to the egg yolks and stir. Then pour that back into the rest of the coconut milk mix in the pot. Add in 1 pandan leaf. Stir as the mixture cooks. When the mixture thickens slightly, turn heat to low.
5. Now let the kaya cook and stir every so often until it becomes thick and can coat the back of a spoon easily. This will take 5-10 minutes :)
6. Let the kaya cool before transferring into a bottle. It can be stored in the fridge for a week or so. Makes about a cup of kaya.
EASY AND YUMMY. Please try this out!
Recipe adapted from Kitchen Tigress.
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