Arabic coffee with spices is the essential hot drink of the Ramadan table, is tasted slowly while savoring all its aromas often accompanied by honey cakes or oriental pastry we have a wide choice between Zlabia, Baklawa, Balah el sham, Kalb ellouz, Basboussa, and other honeyed delights. I am a big coffee lover and my husband is even more, with the approach of the Holy Month of Ramadan I prepare my spice coffee, the recipe is super easy and fast just grind the spices and then mix them with the coffee of your choice arabica preferably, in this recipe I use several spices (cloves, cardamom, ginger, pepper, cinnamon, cubeb, anise, putty, fennel, nutmeg) and the particularity of this coffee is that there are sesame seeds and nuts that really give depth to its aromas! Sometimes I use just a few! For the express version, you can add the four spices with a little ginger to your drink!
Ingredients:
- 250 g of good quality ground coffee (arabica preferably)
- 10 cloves
- 10 black peppercorns
- 10 cloves of cardamom
- 10 cubeb grains (tail pepper)
- 1 teaspoon anise seeds
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon or 2 stickets
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 3 seeds of Mastic
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- 2 walnut kernels
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Preparation:
- In a spice mill or in your robot chopper, put all the spices, seeds, and nuts and then grind them very finely.
- Sift the resulting powder.
- In a large bowl, put the ground coffee, then add 2 good teaspoons of the spice mixture and mix everything.
- Put the spiced coffee in an airtight jar and set it aside in a dry and cool place.
- Make your coffee normally in the coffee machine or in an Italian coffee maker (count one teaspoon per cup of coffee according to taste if you want it long or espresso)
- Enjoy the hot spice coffee with cane sugar, preferably for more aroma, and why not a touch of milk.
- Good realization and good tasting!
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