For those who are just beginning their acquaintance with the variety of coffee and its varieties, we recommend first of all to understand how to make coffee at home in a Turk. A simple unit allows you to extract the maximum taste from the grains at home using a very affordable cooking technology. There are many ways to brew a drink with the help of the Turks, but we'll talk about the most accessible and common.
How to brew coffee in a Turkish house?
The first step is to consider the preparatory stage of cooking, which includes choosing the right Turkish and coffee grade.
In the Turkish you can cook absolutely any coffee, especially if this Turk is made of copper. Copper perfectly conducts and retains heat, promoting a uniform warming of the drink. Inexpensive clay Turks are also good, but the porosity of the material allows you to cook only one grade of coffee, otherwise the tastes of different varieties are mixed.
Copper Turks with a narrow neck are ideal, as they contribute to the concentration of taste and aroma of coffee in the vessel.
As for the grade of coffee , then choose it for your own taste and discretion, the main thing - do not take too much, so that the grains are not spoiled and do not lose flavor during storage.
How to cook delicious coffee in a Turkish house - recipe
One of the basic stages of coffee brewing is the determination of the amount of coffee powder that should be poured into a container. As a rule, a couple of teaspoons of ground coffee with a small slide is enough to brew 150 ml of coffee. For tasty coffee, high-quality water is needed, because even the highest quality grain can not provide a tasty drink with the use of rigid tap water. Use filtered or bottled water.
After measuring the ground coffee and typing the necessary amount of water, prepare the Turk to cook by barely warming its bottom on medium heat. After warming, the ground grain is covered in turk. If you drink coffee with sugar, then it should also be added at this stage. A variety of ground spices are also acceptable, especially with freshly brewed coffee, a pinch of ground cinnamon or ginger is combined. Fill coffee with cold water and put on a weak fire. After a minimum of time, a clear foam forms on the surface, which will darken as you prepare.
During the boiling of coffee in Turks, there is a golden rule: do not allow the boil to boil! The fact is that at the first stages of the preparation of the coffee is covered with a foamy crust collecting all the flavors of the drink underneath. If the integrity of this crust is disturbed, then the drink also loses the lion's share of the accumulated taste and aroma. When you begin to notice that coffee gradually begins to reach the boil, then immediately remove the Turk from the fire. Repeat the process of bringing to a boil and withdraw can be as many times as you like, but 2-3 will be enough.
Ready coffee is carefully poured over pre-heated cups.
How to cook ground coffee in a Turkish house?
Of course, that for cooking in the Turkish you should take only whole grains of coffee and preferably fresh grinding, and therefore before you weld the coffee beans in the Turkish house, the grains are ground in the required volume. It is not recommended to store ground coffee for storage.
The second technique of cooking coffee involves adding the very ground grains to the turkey with a solution of sugar and water (or just warm water if you are drinking unsweetened coffee). Lovers of sweet coffee offer to pour sugar into the Turkish and give it a melt to achieve caramel taste, and then pour in water.
When the water warms up, add coffee, wait until the foam appears on the surface and mix the drink. Now wait until the foam begins to become dense and change its color to cream. Let the coffee practically reach the boil, and then remove it from the heat.