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Kaya is a local jam made from eggs, sugar and coconut milk. Sometimes it is green in colour, and sometimes caramel coloured. It goes fabulously with bread toasted over charcoal and buttered — a popular breakfast with Singaporeans, named Kaya Toast. It is traditionally partnered by soft boiled eggs sprinkled with a dash of pepper and dark soy sauce. 

No one is certain about the origins of kaya, but it is most likely of Portuguese origin, with the Straits Chinese and Chinese preparing their own versions of it.

It is so well-loved that more than one enterprising company that began as a coffee stall has opened a chain of updated and modernized coffee shops that specialize in kaya toast. Another company exports kaya to Australia and the USA.  Both the chains below have stores all over Singapore and in many parts of Asia as well.

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• Ya kun

Locations all over Singapore.

237 Alexandra Road #03-09/10 Alexander  Singapore 159929 Republic of Singapore  Telephone: +65 6222 4567  Fax: +65 6222 9711 Email: info@yakun.com

• Killiney Kopitiam

Locations all over Singapore

Killiney International Pte Ltd
162 Race Course Road Singapore 218603 Telephone:
+65 6299 2858  Fax: +65 6299 2821                                   Email : contactus@killiney-kopitiam.com

Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup Coconut milk
1 cup Eggs(about 3-4 medium to large size eggs)
1 cup sugar(already reduced from 2 cups)
10-15 pieces of pandan leaves, washed and wiped dry.

(This recipe makes roughly about 1 and 1/2 cups of kaya)

1. Wash, dry and tie up bundles of about 5 pandan leaves in each bundle(like in the pic above)
2. Measure out eggs, then beat lightly till yolk and white mixed.
3. Pour all(as in sugar, coconut milk and eggs) into breadmaker tin(like in picture above) and throw in bundles of pandan leaves.
4. Set on ‘Jam’ function.
5. Check on kaya after some time and make sure sides are mixed too.
6. When the breadmaker completes the function, take it out and cool for a while, remove all the pandan leaves, then put into a blender and blend lightly till it is smooth.