Turkish coffee: national recipes
The cult of coffee in Turkey is far more serious than one might think. You could find classical and alternative ways of brewing there. The turks, of course, are like the rest of the world, but as far as traditional recipes go, there turned out to be little more than one.
Once I found a whole page devoted to coffee on the menu of a Turkish restaurant. This surprised me. Earlier we wrote an article on the traditions of Turkish coffee drinking, where we talked about the classic recipe for Turkish coffee and some other aspects related to the ritual of drinking coffee itself.
As it turned out later, the cult of coffee in Turkey is far more serious than one might think. The Turks like the rest of the world have classic and alternative ways of making it, but as far as traditional recipes go, there turned out to be little more than one.
Here are some recipes for these very special Turkish coffee drinks that you can make at home:
1.Milk turkish coffee
To make it you need one portion of Turkish coffee, half a glass of hot milk and a spoonful of sugar. Mix the sugar with the milk and add the Turkish coffee filtered from the grounds.
2. Chocolate turkish coffee
Ingridients:
- 80 ml of table water at room temperature.
2 teaspoons grated dark chocolate
2 teaspoons ground coffee beans
1 teaspoon sugar (adjust to taste)
Recipe: First, you need to brew Turkish coffee. To do this put the beans and sugar into a turkey pot, pour water, and heat for about a minute until foam forms. Then, use a spoon to pour it into Turkish cups, add grated chocolate to the remaining coffee, bring it to the boil and pour over the foam into cups.
3. Ottoman coffee -
Its main difference from Turkish one is that Turkish was for the people, while Ottoman was only for the Sultan, and its recipe did not leave the palace for a long time.
Preparation and ingredients: first we have to prepare an Ottoman coffee blend, which consists of Yemeni coffee, carob, chocolate and cardamom. Next, we cook according to the traditional recipe - mix 3 spoonfuls of the mixture with water and sugar to taste and cook until boiling.
4. Terebinth coffee is a Kurdish coffee, which is widely spread in the territories of Kurdistan. It is made from the fruit of the turpentine tree and does not contain caffeine. In Russia and other countries with soviet history it is widely known as chicory.
Sometimes you could find strange names for coffee, like gum-mastic turkish coffee and find-ground coffee in the menus of turkish establishments. However you can only find out what it is by trying it.