Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kaya jam. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Kaya is a delicious Malaysian jam made with coconut, eggs and caramel. Rich and aromatic jam which is perfect for toast and a cup of coffee! Kaya is one of my favorite Malay words. The reason is simple: it carries two of my favorite meanings in Malaysian language.
Kaya Jam is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Kaya Jam is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have kaya jam using 3 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kaya Jam:
- Make ready 100 ml Coconut milk
- Prepare 1 Egg
- Get 50 grams Granulated sugar
Coconut jam (kaya)- how to make it at home In Southeast Asia, kaya is often made using palm sugar which gives this coconut jam a unique caramelly taste. The slightly less sweet palm sugar, which is available in Asian grocery stores, can be substituted with brown sugar, if you can't find it. Also the color of the end result will depend on the sugar you are using. 'Kaya', meaning 'rich' in Malay, is a thick coconut jam or custard, flavoured with pandan juice (a common flavouring in Southeast Asian cooking), and made with eggs, sugar and coconut milk. The pandan juice is obtained from the leafy herbaceous tropical plant pandanus amaryllifolius, commonly used to flavour sweets and desserts in Southeast Asia.
Steps to make Kaya Jam:
- Break the egg into a bowl and beat with a whisk. Then, add the sugar and stir without letting it foam.
- Add the coconut milk. When everything is mixed together, it will look pale as shown. Pour it into a pot.
- Slowly bring it to a simmer over low heat. After 7-8 minutes the coconut will become aromatic and the mixture will begin to thicken. As you stir it, occasionally remove it from heat to prevent it from separating.
- It will gradually become paste-like in consistency. Once it turns yellow, it's done.
Also the color of the end result will depend on the sugar you are using. 'Kaya', meaning 'rich' in Malay, is a thick coconut jam or custard, flavoured with pandan juice (a common flavouring in Southeast Asian cooking), and made with eggs, sugar and coconut milk. The pandan juice is obtained from the leafy herbaceous tropical plant pandanus amaryllifolius, commonly used to flavour sweets and desserts in Southeast Asia. Kaya is a coconut jam popular in Singapore and Malaysia. Invented by the Hainanese people, there are now sereral varieties. Hainanese kaya is a smoothy, buttery, caramel-colored coconut spread.
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