Recipe: Appetizing Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast

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Recipe: Appetizing Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast. This is also the only place in Hong Kong to serve up kaya pineapple buns! Think fluffy bolo bao smeared with Hainanese-style brown sugar kaya. The classic Hong Kong-style french toast combines thick-sliced white bread, eggs, and kaya coconut jam, all deep fried and topped with an indulgent amount of butter and sweetened condensed milk.

Unlike many Hong Kong-style French toasts that are smothered in syrup, Si Yik's kaya French toast is sweetened only with the star ingredient—kaya, a coconut and pandan-flavoured spread.

Slathered liberally in between the two slices of eggy bread, the coconut jam lends the perfect amount of sweetness to the dish without additional syrup, so.

Our visit to Hong Kong earlier this year reminded me of the delights of French Toast aka 'eggy bread'.

You can cook Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast

  1. Prepare of Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying.

  2. Prepare of Eggs Lightly Beaten,.

  3. You need of Evaporated Milk,.

  4. You need of Homemade Shokupan / White Sandwich Bread,.

  5. You need of Homemade Nyonya Kaya, 2 Heaping Spread.

  6. Prepare of Homemade Cultured Butter, 2 Heaping Spread.

  7. It’s of Condensed Milk, For Serving.

  8. You need of Nature Superfoods' Yacon Syrup, For Serving (Optional).

I particularly loved it slathered in melted butter, condensed milk and kaya (often translated as coconut jam).

A staple of the cha chaan teng (Hong Kong style café) menu, the French toast is virtually deep fried for a crisp exterior and fluffy interior before being liberally drenched.

Serve on plate, melt the butter all over the toast and pour some golden syrup to taste!

Tips: For those who are allergic to peanuts, feel free to use any other filling such as plain butter or kaya butter.

Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast instructions

  1. This is how this dish looked like in 2014..

  2. Fast forward 2018, I recreated this dish and this is how it looked like. I kinda regretted dredging it with panko breadcrumbs as they lost that iconic yellowish look..

  3. You can get the shokupan recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/shokupan.

  4. You can get the nyonya kaya recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/nyonya-kaya.

  5. You can get the cultured butter recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/cultured-butter.

  6. In a skillet over medium-low heat, add about 2 inches of oil.

*To check the temperature of the oil, simply insert a wooden chopstick.

If there are bubbles forming around the chopstick, the oil is ready. The bubbles should not be bubbling rapidly.*

In a shallow bowl, add eggs and milk..

  1. Whisk to beat the eggs and combine well.

Remove crust from the bread.

You can save the crust for bread crumbs or fry them up into bread fries

Dredge the bread with the egg mixture on both sides..

  1. Gently drop the sandwiches into the oil away from you.

Fry until lightly golden brown on both sides.

The bread will brown and burn very fast. Make sure the temperature is at medium-low heat. Using a pair of chopsticks to keep flipping for even browning..

  1. Remove from heat and drain off excess oil on a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with kitchen paper.

Repeat the steps with the remaining bread.

Spread kaya on 2 slices of the fried bread..

  1. Spread butter on another 2 slices of fried bread.

Stack the butter slices onto the kaya ones.

Finally, place the remaining slices on top.

Slice and serve with a drizzle of condensed milk..

  1. To make bread fries, toss the crust into the remaining egg batter and fry until crispy. I like to serve with kaya as a dipping sauce and a drizzle of Nature Superfoods yacon syrup or maple syrup.*.

Hong Kong-style French toast is a local classic.

We try four innovative versions with different fillings to see which is top dog.. its kaya toast is another big crowd pleaser.

Hong Kong-style French Toast is prepared with two slices of peanut butter or coconut jam-smeared milk bread, which are dipped into a batter of eggs and vanilla essence, then pan-fried or deep-fried in oil until golden brown.

When served, this french toast version is topped with a dab of butter in the center, and it's often drizzled with maple syrup, condensed milk, honey, or an ice cream scoop HONG KONG style French toast.

Customer Review: HONG KONG style French toast.