I have been wanting to make kaya for a long time but the thought of the tedious preparation time always puts me off. It is so easy for us to just buy a small plastic container for only about RM3-RM6 depending on the quality. Anyway I finally did it yesterday but it only took me less than an hour as I made a very small portion. 3 large eggs, santan from one coconut (I bought 2 packets of those ready squeezed santan from the market) and 240gm sugar which is too sweet. Being too lazy to extract the juice from the pandan leaves, I just put in 8 pieces into the kaya and remove them when it is ready. Have to lessen the sugar the next round as I find it too sweet. I made my kaya in a double boiler. I didn't steam the kaya though.
I feel my kaya needs improvement even though my friend and colleagues say otherwise. It doesn't have the eggy taste which I like.
The basic estimation of the ingredients I got from my f riend would be:-
10 eggs
1 kati sugar (600 gm)
Santan (coconut milk) from 3 coconuts
Juice from pandan leaves (screwpine leaves)
Method
1) Combine the eggs and sugar and stir with a whisk until sugar dissolves.
2) Sieve the above into a pot. Add in the pandan juice.
3) Cook the kaya over a pot of hot water and keep stirring all the time until it thickens to the consistency
that you prefer. That would take approximately 2 hours.
4) Cover the kaya and steam for 2 hours.
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