Interesting options for making coffee with spices
An invigorating and fragrant coffee drink is a great opportunity to cheer yourself up in the morning and recharge your batteries for the whole day. There are many recipes and ways to prepare it. For example, in many countries of the world, it is customary to prepare such a drink with a variety of spices that add flavor and enrich coffee with benefits.
Peculiarities
Any drink, be it coffee or tea, with spices becomes even tastier and healthier. For example, coffee with cinnamon, star anise, cloves, ginger and so on. With what just do not prepare this drink. Those who are accustomed to exquisite and unusual drinks will never refuse a new, yet unknown taste.
The peculiarity of this coffee is that each spice has a certain benefit to the body. Thanks to the variety of choices, you can indulge yourself with a cup of your favorite drink every day, each time improving it with a new aroma.
Each spice has a unique and inimitable taste. You can make coffee using one or another spice, focusing on your health, mood and even the time of year.
Benefit
There are a lot of lovers and true connoisseurs of such a fragrant and invigorating drink as coffee in the world. A real coffee lover prefers to drink only the drink that was prepared according to all the rules using freshly ground high quality beans. Natural coffee, like most natural products, is good for health. Let's take a look at what exactly it is useful for.
Despite the fact that doctors around the world annually enter into discussions and argue about what is more in coffee - good or bad, there are still proven facts that confirm the benefits of a natural drink for the human body. For example, scientists from Japan managed to prove that daily consumption of such a drink helps to reduce and prevent the risk of developing a disease such as asthma.
American scientists, in turn, after numerous studies came to the conclusion that coffee can prevent the development of such an ailment as Parkinson's disease. And they also proved that the beneficial properties of these fragrant grains can positively affect the functioning of the liver, prevent the appearance of kidney stones, improve brain activity, and more.
Of course, this natural ingredient, on the basis of which many people brew a delicious drink every day, brings great benefits to the body. But only if there are no contraindications, and if you do not abuse it. By the way, such a drink in tandem with any spice can enhance its benefits and acquire new useful qualities.
In order to improve the taste of the drink, you need to experiment on your own, add something new, adjust the proportion, and so on. But in order to know exactly what kind of benefit you put into coffee using this or that spice, you need to know about all the beneficial properties of spices.
Many people add cinnamon stick powder to improve the taste of the drink and cheer themselves up. This spice is able to regulate blood glucose levels, prevent seasonal diseases, improve digestion, strengthen the heart muscle, speed up metabolism, and so on.
To improve the stimulation of the intestines and strengthen the immune system, ginger root is excellent. Such a drink has a warming effect, which is very important in the cold season, during the cold season.
The bitter and very fragrant cloves perfectly neutralize all the negative properties of caffeine. And also this seasoning is considered a natural antiseptic, it perfectly reduces pressure, has a positive effect on the throat during colds.
To really relax after a hard day's work, you can use cardamom. But nutmeg, on the contrary, gives strength, invigorates and tones.
Of course, each spice added to aromatic coffee has a certain benefit. But do not forget that you need to use only natural spices. When choosing them on the market or in a store, give preference not to ground in bags, but to real ones.
If it's cinnamon or vanilla, then it should be a stick. If ginger or cardamom, then a fresh root and a closed box. Do not forget that you need to follow the recipe and dosage of spices, otherwise there will be more harm than good.
Harm
Given the fact that aromatic grains in ground form contain a large amount of caffeine, this drink can be harmful to many. Before you enjoy a cup of coffee, be sure to find out about contraindications.
In the event that you do not comply with the measure and abuse the drink, this can negatively affect blood pressure. Do not consume more than two cups a day. And for those who constantly suffer from high blood pressure, it is better to completely abandon such a drink. And also do not drink coffee in the evening, as this can provoke insomnia.
As for spices, they should be used with great care. Not everyone can afford to consume such spicy and aromatic drinks every day, as there are a number of contraindications. For example, ginger root should not be consumed while taking medications that are designed to thin the blood. And also with various diseases of the intestines, ulcers and gastritis.
Cinnamon stick can be harmful if consumed during high fever, kidney or liver disease. And cloves are contraindicated for those who have very low blood pressure.
Any useful spice is contraindicated in case of individual intolerance and allergies. Be sure to consider the contraindications of each of the spices, so as not to harm your body.
How to cook?
Real coffee lovers say that nothing compares to a fragrant drink that was prepared according to all the rules in a real Turk. In order for the taste and aroma of the ground grains to be fully revealed, you need to properly brew the drink, strictly following the traditional recipe.
First you need to choose high-quality grains. The taste of the drink will directly depend on their quality and method of roasting. To enjoy the taste of coffee, and to get the most out of it, you need to grind the beans just before drinking. By the way, the same applies to spices.
To prepare a delicious drink, you need to know a little secret. We put the resulting powder in a special container for brewing coffee, namely: in a Turk. Next, fill with purified and filtered water and put on a very small fire. Count a teaspoon of ground coffee per cup of water.As soon as the liquid boils, a “cap” will appear, you need to immediately remove our drink from the fire, not allowing it to boil and boil away. After that, we recommend adding just a few drops of cold water, this will allow the thicker to settle to the bottom faster and get a clean and aromatic drink.
Preparing a drink using all kinds of spices is also easy. Someone puts the spices after making the drink, sprinkling them on top of the whipped cream. And someone puts them at the very beginning of the stage. Next, we have prepared for you interesting and unusual recipes that will allow you to taste the most diverse tastes of your favorite drink.
Unusual Recipes
In sunny Tunisia, this drink is drunk daily, and it is always prepared with spices. They add mainly cardamom and cinnamon. And also often prepare coffee with cloves or star anise. You can easily prepare such a fragrant drink that will remind you of a distant country at home. For one hundred and twenty milligrams of water, we take one small spoonful of sugar, coffee and cinnamon. You will also need a couple of cloves and two boxes of cardamom. If the cardamom is already ground, then you only need a little bit, literally at the tip of a teaspoon.
To begin with, we warm up the Turk itself for exactly a minute, then put the main ingredient, sugar, cardamom and cloves. Mix everything and pour water on top. As soon as the foam rises, you need to remove the coffee from the heat. You need to do this two or three times, while not allowing the drink to boil. As soon as the coffee is ready, let it brew for a couple of minutes, and then pour it into a cup.
Sprinkle with ground cinnamon stick before serving.
Salt is not only used to prepare all main dishes, it is also used to make delicious coffee.Connoisseurs of this invigorating drink claim that ordinary salt is the best way to reveal the full taste and aroma of brown grains. We take the required amount of water and coffee. Remember the proportions we talked about above. Next, add some salt and cinnamon. You need only one pinch of spices for each cup. The drink should be brewed in the same way as Tunisian coffee. Namely: wait until the coffee starts to boil, and take it off the heat in time.
If desired, you can prepare this drink without cinnamon, only with salt, in order to understand and feel the true aroma of the drink.
Baking with orange always reminds of the New Year holidays. We offer you to prepare coffee with aromatic notes of citrus fruits. For one hundred and fifty milligrams of water, you will need one spoonful of freshly ground coffee and zest. Zest can be taken not only orange.
It is quite possible to make a real mix using the grated peel of a lemon, tangerine and orange. And you will also need half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon sticks and a pinch of nutmeg. First you need to prepare a kind of decoction using the zest. Pour it with the required amount of water, bring to a boil, remove from heat and leave for exactly five minutes. We put the rest of the ingredients in a container for brewing our drink and fill it with the resulting broth. You need to boil the drink on very low heat for five minutes, not allowing the liquid to boil.
By the way, a drink like coffee goes well with mint. If you follow this recipe, the drink will turn out strong and with an incredible flavor. For one hundred milligrams of water, you will need two tablespoons of ground grains and the same amount of sugar. Mint is desirable to take fresh, five or six leaves will be enough.We brew coffee in the traditional way. Put the leaves in a cup and knead them with a spoon. Pour the drink on top, leave for five minutes, and add sugar. We are waiting for a couple more minutes, and enjoy an unusually delicious coffee.
By the way, you can prepare a drink with spices using not only coffee beans. The most common, soluble one may well come up. In this case, you need to brew your favorite drink and add some spices to it to taste. During brewing, you can immediately put a circle of ginger root, vanilla pod or cinnamon stick. Or you can make a decoction based on this or that spice and brew coffee with it.
It is better to boil a vanilla stick whole, like cardamom pods. But it is better to divide the cinnamon stick into several parts, and finely chop or grate the ginger root.
In order for the aroma of your favorite spices to be revealed in a new way, we suggest trying out the following recipe, which has a little trick. For one hundred and twenty milligrams of water, you will need a teaspoon of fragrant freshly ground coffee bean powder and half a teaspoon of any spices. We suggest trying a combination such as ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Ginger is better to take fresh and grate it on a fine grater.
At the bottom of the Turks put the powder of cinnamon sticks, nuts and ground grains. We warm everything on low heat for two minutes. At this point, an incredible aroma will already spread throughout the house. Next, add the grated root of our spice, keep it on fire for another twenty to thirty seconds and pour it with clean cold water. We cook in the already known way, and as soon as the drink is ready, you can add a little sugar, honey or cream to it to taste.
Fans of everything spicy and spicy will surely appreciate the following recipe.You will need the following ingredients: one hundred and fifty milligrams of water, a quarter of a chili pepper, half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder and exactly two tablespoons of the coffee itself. If you take a fresh pepper, then you do not need to cut it into slices and pieces. If you have it in ground form, then you only need a little sharp powder, literally on the tip of a knife.
Pour all the ingredients with water and cook until the "cap" appears. As soon as it appears, immediately remove from heat, and pour the drink into cups. This coffee will help you warm up on a cold winter evening.
How to serve and drink?
In addition to the fact that you need to be able to properly brew an invigorating drink, you also need to know the intricacies of coffee etiquette. If in the coming days you are waiting for guests and dreaming of treating them to fragrant coffee with cinnamon, then these rules will definitely come in handy for you.
If you want to invite friends specifically for coffee tasting, then the meeting should be scheduled after six in the evening. As a rule, this drink is served after all the main courses. Serving coffee to guests indicates that the dinner has smoothly come to an end.
As an addition to this aromatic drink, you can serve small sandwiches, pies, cakes, sweet nuts or fruits. And also on the coffee table you can place a box with sweets, including chocolate ones. Be sure to have hot milk, cream and sugar on this table so that guests can choose how to complement the taste of the drink.
By the way, remember that drinks with milk, for example, the famous cappuccino, should be served in tea cups, and espresso in small coffee cups.
You need to drink the drink, while it has not cooled down yet, in small sips. After you have mixed the coffee, the spoon must be placed on the saucer without leaving it in the cup. Dipping cookies in coffee is bad manners.As soon as you want to take a sip of aromatic coffee, remember that the saucer should be in your left hand, and the cup itself should be held with your right hand. While drinking a drink with milk, the saucer can be left on the table. If there are no special tongs for sugar on the table, then it is customary to take snow-white cubes with your hands, and not with a spoon.
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