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Hainanese Kaya

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  • Makes about

    425 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese Heritage Cooking

By Christopher Tan and Amy Van

Published 2018

  • About

A staple in any coffee shop, to be served on toast or steamed bread with thin slabs of butter. Tinted a lustrous brown with caramelised sugar and rendered smooth by constant stirring, this kaya is sweeter and softer than the more egg-rich Nyonya kaya from which it probably descends; Hainanese cooks may have learnt, and subsequently adapted, the recipe from Peranakan households in which they worked. The hint of salt is important for balancing out the kaya’s sweetness.

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