How to Make Arabic Coffee
The coffee beans and the process of brewing Arabic coffee is not very different from what we ordinarily do to make a cup of coffee. The last spices and herbs that are added to the brew is what gives the coffee its distinct taste and characteristics. The process that is used to make Arabic coffee is quite simple and straight forward. Here's how you can make it...
Arabic Coffee Ingredients
To make a cup of Arabic coffee, you will require the following ingredients:
3 eight ounce glasses of water
¾ cup lightly roasted and ground coffee
¼ cup coarsely ground cardamom
¼ teaspoon saffron (optional)
Arab coffee cup (optional)
Apart from these ingredients you may include some milk or milk powder, in case you hate just plain watery coffee.
Arabic Coffee Recipe
The process is short and straightforward. First take a vessel and bring the water to boil. Add the coffee powder to it and let the brew, boil for about quarter of an hour. Then turn off the heat and put the cardamom in the pot and stir the brew so that the aroma gets whiffed into the coffee. Strain the coffee into a cup and sprinkle the saffron into it.
There are several alternative recipes of Arabic and Turkish coffee that can be implemented, if you are enthusiastic enough and can lay your hands upon the ingredients. You can prepare the Qishr, a Yemeni quasi-coffee, often known as the poor man's coffee. The recipe is the same as above, but instead of coffee powder, add in coffee husks, ginger and cinnamon. The taste is a bit different from that of coffee, but as always, is wonderful. A very strong and rather awakening variant of the conventional coffee is the Turkish coffee. In order to make such a coffee, you will have to lay your hands upon roast coffee beans. Use them in the aforementioned recipe with cinnamon and boil the brew till it thickens a bit. Serve with the essence of cinnamon.
Coffee was a delicacy that was widely enjoyed in the Ottoman empire, hence you will find several Arabic coffee variants ranging from Balkan recipes to the ones that were enjoyed by the Afghans. Every recipe has the same base but the essence giving herb is different. Well believe it or not, the countless recipes of Arabic coffee have made Ottoman empire a probable birth place of coffee shops or houses. You may also experiment with some brands of middle eastern and African coffee beans, the taste really does change.
The coffee beans and the process of brewing Arabic coffee is not very different from what we ordinarily do to make a cup of coffee. The last spices and herbs that are added to the brew is what gives the coffee its distinct taste and characteristics. The process that is used to make Arabic coffee is quite simple and straight forward. Here's how you can make it...
Arabic Coffee Ingredients
To make a cup of Arabic coffee, you will require the following ingredients:
3 eight ounce glasses of water
¾ cup lightly roasted and ground coffee
¼ cup coarsely ground cardamom
¼ teaspoon saffron (optional)
Arab coffee cup (optional)
Apart from these ingredients you may include some milk or milk powder, in case you hate just plain watery coffee.
Arabic Coffee Recipe
The process is short and straightforward. First take a vessel and bring the water to boil. Add the coffee powder to it and let the brew, boil for about quarter of an hour. Then turn off the heat and put the cardamom in the pot and stir the brew so that the aroma gets whiffed into the coffee. Strain the coffee into a cup and sprinkle the saffron into it.
There are several alternative recipes of Arabic and Turkish coffee that can be implemented, if you are enthusiastic enough and can lay your hands upon the ingredients. You can prepare the Qishr, a Yemeni quasi-coffee, often known as the poor man's coffee. The recipe is the same as above, but instead of coffee powder, add in coffee husks, ginger and cinnamon. The taste is a bit different from that of coffee, but as always, is wonderful. A very strong and rather awakening variant of the conventional coffee is the Turkish coffee. In order to make such a coffee, you will have to lay your hands upon roast coffee beans. Use them in the aforementioned recipe with cinnamon and boil the brew till it thickens a bit. Serve with the essence of cinnamon.
Coffee was a delicacy that was widely enjoyed in the Ottoman empire, hence you will find several Arabic coffee variants ranging from Balkan recipes to the ones that were enjoyed by the Afghans. Every recipe has the same base but the essence giving herb is different. Well believe it or not, the countless recipes of Arabic coffee have made Ottoman empire a probable birth place of coffee shops or houses. You may also experiment with some brands of middle eastern and African coffee beans, the taste really does change.
