Homemade Jam And Bread Spread

My mum made some homemade jam and bread spread before she came to visit us last week. She made peanut butter, pandan kaya (a bread spread made of coconut milk, sugar, eggs and screwpine leaves juice), strawberry jam, green bean or mung bean paste and red bean paste – all with reduced sugar as I don’t like them too sweet.

From left : 2 bottles of red bean paste, green bean paste and pandan kaya (my mum used the juice from 40 blades of pandan or screwpine leaves to make 2 bottles of kaya).

I loved the paste so much that I ate them on its own and they tasted just like ice-cream when they are chilled. The paste went very well with bread, toast and crackers.

The pandan kaya was cooked in a pot under low heat (stirred continuously for an hour) whilst the green bean and red bean paste were made partially in her Kenwood breadmaker.  Before throwing the beans into the breadmaker, she soaked the beans overnight.  After the beans were soaked, she boiled them in a pot of water for about half an hour or until the beans were soft.   Once soft, she blended the beans into very fine paste before throwing them into the breadmaker together with a little sugar. 

I told my mum that she can even open a store to sell her homemade jam and bread spread.  Maybe I can even set up an online store to sell her jam…. another food for thought….

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Author: Shireen

I am a WFHM of 3 lovely girls - Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra. I am a health, fitness and clean freak. I am a freelance content writer and occasionally help out my other half in his food catering business. I also do product reviews and accept sponsored posts on my blogs. I hope you'll enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy sharing my day-to-day adventures and mostly boring ranting :P Welcome to my blog! :) View all posts by Shireen