Ingredients - Decoction
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Quantity |
Ground Coffee |
2 tbsp or 20 gm |
Hot Water (93℃ - 97℃) |
½ cup or 140 ml |
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Ingredients - Filter Kaapi(for 1 cup) |
Quantity |
Coffee Decoction |
40 ml |
Milk |
120 ml |
Sugar |
1 tsp or 5 gm |
Preparation
Decoction
- Fix the upper cup on top of the bottom chamber
- Add ground coffee to the upper cylindrical cup of the Filter
- Slightly wet this coffee with 1/3rd of total water and let it stay for 30 seconds
- Tamp this coffee with a plunger/press disc. Avoid pressing too hard
- Pour the remaining boiled water into the upper cup and partially cover with the lid
- Let the coffee decoction drip slowly from the top chamber to the bottom
Final Cup
- In the tumbler, add 40 ml of the above decoction
- Slowly, add 90-120 ml of boiling hot milk, pouring from as far away as possible to create foam with bubbles
- Add sugar, if needed
- Coffee is typically served after pouring back and forth between the dabarah and a tumbler
Tips & Tricks / Cheat Sheet
- Decoction too thick? - Reduce the brewing ratio
- Decoction too thin? - Increase the brewing ratio
- Spice it up? - Add jaggery instead of sugar and ginger powder
- Approx Brewing time - 10 -15 mins
- Brewing time too long? - Tamp light
- Pour back and forth between two cups to mix ingredients thoroughly, cool the hot coffee to a sipping temperature, and most importantly, aerate it without extra water