Egyptian Coffee
Egyptian Coffee with Cardamom
Egyptian coffee is a wonderful dark, full flavoured coffee. It’s very concentrated, similar to an espresso. And just like espresso it’s served in a very small glass or cup – demi-tasse size.
Egyptian coffee is very finely ground and usually has cardamom added to it. This gives it a wonderful flavour and aroma, slightly peppery that’s also floral with a hint of citrus.
It’s prepared in a little coffee pot that Egyptians call a ‘canica’.
Check how sweet they like it they like their Egyptian Coffee
The quantities for this recipe make enough for 1 cup of mildly sweet coffee. The sugar is added to the coffee prior to cooking so you if you are making it for someone it’s important to find out how sweet they like their coffee first.
Ingredients
- 1 measured glass of cold water ( the glass you’ll be serving it in)
- 2 heaped tsp Egyptian coffee
- 1 rounded tsp sugar
Method
Put all the ingredients into a canica ( small coffee cooking pot).
Put the canica onto the stove, over a medium flame.
Stir the mixture all the time.
When the coffee comes to the boil and starts to rise, take it off the heat and pour it into the glass.
A good coffee should have a very fine surface to it – otherwise it’s said to be ‘shy’.
Serve your coffee with a glass of water alongside it.
If you’re a coffee lover this will be a real treat. I hope you enjoy it.
Let me know how you get on.
As a footnote, I must say, please offer advance warning to newcomers…
If you’re giving Egyptian coffee to someone who hasn’t tried it before, please make them aware that the ground coffee remains in the coffee, at the bottom of their cup. They need to know this, so that they stop drinking before they reach the bottom of the cup. When I gave one of my son-in-laws Egyptian coffee for the first time, I failed to do this. He loved the coffee. But as I hadn’t told him otherwise he went on to drink the coffee right to the bottom of the cup. As a result he ended up coughing and choking. So, as I said please warn newcomers.