Almost every morning of any Italian begins with making latte coffee. This coffee drink with the addition of milk is considered almost traditional in Italy. And at the same time it's not just coffee with milk, but a whole culture and the art of making coffee. The main ingredients of this great drink are strong espresso and milk foam. Although if you do not have the opportunity to make an espresso at home, then you can use any other strong coffee, except for the American. Another small secret of the latte is that in the glass you need to pour the foam from the milk first, which should be very thick, like a shaving cream, and only after that, gently pour in the hot coffee. This should be done so that coffee does not mix with foam. Only in this case you will get a real latte. We want to offer you some traditional and not exactly recipes, like making coffee lattes.
How to make a latte?
Ingredients:
- espresso - 30 ml;
- milk - 150 ml.
Preparation
First, prepare the espresso. Pour the ground coffee, or a special espresso bag into the coffee machine, which has the function of making espresso. Fill with water. As a result, you should get the required amount of espresso. Heat the milk, but do not boil it. It must be heated. Whisk the milk to a state of airy foam and gently transfer the foam into a tall glass. Pour a thin trickle over the wall of a glass of espresso. Your foam should be at the top, and the coffee downstairs. If the shelf foam clearly covers the espresso from above, then you did it right. You can serve latte with a couple of pieces of brown sugar.
Ice-latte
Like any other traditional coffee, and latte has its so-called summer option - a cold ice latte. This latte is suitable for coffee lovers who can not even a day without this drink, but they do not tolerate hot coffee during the summer heat. The ice latte is prepared as quickly and simply as an ordinary latte.
Ingredients:
- espresso - 30 ml;
- milk - 150 ml;
- chocolate syrup;
- crushed ice.
Preparation
Pound the ice into a glass and add lightly beaten cold milk and chocolate syrup. Slowly pour in the espresso at the edge of the glass. Put the straw in the glass and your ice-latte is ready. In addition to chocolate syrup, you can use any other syrup - coffee, vanilla, fruit.
How to make a latte at home?
Undoubtedly, cooking latte is not a problem for those who have a home special coffee machine and even a whisk for milk. But, unfortunately, not everyone has such equipment, and sometimes you want to make your favorite latte at home. Especially for this, we will tell you about the method of preparing coffee lattes at home.
Ingredients:
- coffee - 9 grains;
- water - 30 ml;
- whole milk - 150 ml.
Preparation
To make a homemade espresso, take the grains and mix them small enough. Pour the freshly ground coffee into a Turkish and fill it with cold water. Put on a slow fire and cook until the foam begins to rise. As soon as the foam begins to rise, remove the coffee from the fire and pour it through a sieve into a tall glass. Do the cooking of milk. The warmer the milk, the thicker the foam. But do not boil it. Whisk a piece of milk well with a whisk to form a thick foam. The remaining milk is slowly poured into the espresso, and from above place the ready-made milk foam.
When preparing lattes, do not forget that the main thing in this coffee is the correct ratio of coffee to milk: 1: 3. In this case, take into account that foam also takes place.