Drinks

Turkish Coffee

Name: Turkish Coffee
Total time: 6 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 1 cup cold water; 2 tsp ground coffee fine

Very finely ground coffee with cold water, sugar and sometimes cardamom, heated slowly in a finjan until the foam rises, twice, and poured once the grounds settle.

⏱ 6 min

⚖ Pareve 🥬 Vegetarian 🌱 Vegan 🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Put the water and coffee in the finjan.
Finjan
2
Heat over low heat, stirring gently.
Stove
3
When the foam rises, lift off the heat for a moment, return to the heat and warm again until the foam rises again.
Stove
💡Don't boil: boiling breaks the foam and makes it bitter. Lift off the heat the moment the foam starts to climb.
4
Remove from the heat and wait for the grounds to settle.
5
Pour gently into small cups.

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⚖ About the ingredients

Cold water: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Cold water →
Ground coffee: measured in tsp in this recipe · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Ground coffee →

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Finjan · Also works: Small saucepan (Saucepan)

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⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: Sugar · Cardamom · Foam rises once more (once more) · Time for the grounds to settle (1 minute) · Whole cardamom pods · Cloves · Saffron