Kaya making

Yesterday I had lunch at my youngest sister's place. She taught me how to make kaya which is coconut egg jam. This is a local jam made from thick coconut milk, eggs and sugar. It comes out as a creamy smooth spread which is very tasty. You can either have it green with the pandan leaves or caramelise the sugar to give it a brown colour.

She used ten eggs, 600gm sugar ( which I thought was too much ) and 200 grams thick coconut milk or santan ( as we call it locally)and a few pandan leaves.

She put everything into a blender, including two shredded pandan leaves and blended it on high until the sugar and pandan leaves were dissolved. Then she poured the mixture out into a pot and boiled it over low fire, stirring until it thickened.

Then she poured the lot into the double boiler to steam it together with the remaining pandan leaves. It was left to steam for about 45 minutes, during which she stirred it a couple of times. If stirred too many times, it would turn out dry.

After 45 minutes, she removed it and put it into the blender again to blend for a short while, until the pandan leaves were completely dissolved. Hers is a heavy duty blender so it could dissolve the pandan leaves. I'm not sure if an ordinary blender can do that. But it doesnt really matter as we can always use the pandan juice to get the green color and the nice smell.

Once it was blended, the kaya came out very smooth. It tasted delicious though a tad too sweet for my liking. I think 400gm of sugar will be fine and I would add 300gm of thick coconut milk instead.

Lunch which she provided was a mixture of nasi lemak, kueh teow, roast pork, fried radish cake ( I would have preferred it fried with dark soya sauce but she used fish sauce instead because she didn't like it to look dark!!) and sotong sambal(spicy cuttlefish). Then her hubby whom ky daughter dubbed Uncle KFC came back with two tubs of Kentuck Fried Chicken and some durian creme puffs. The puffs were delisious but then anything with durian is delicious to me. I simply love the King of Fruits. However its aroma sometimes drive people beserk!