If you are a coffee drinker, you must try the South Indian Filter Coffee. It beats any Latte or Cappuccino hands down.
The filter referred to here is typically a stainless steel cylidrical contraption that comes apart in two halves. The top half has a pierced bottom with several tiny holes. The coffee beans are ground and the ground powder is filed in the top half. The top half sits snugly on the bottom half which receives the coffee drips. There is a lid to cover the top half. A pierced disc with a stem is placed on the coffee powder inside the top half of the cylinder.
If all this sounds difficult to visualize, please google for some pictures. There are several on the web!!
The top half is loaded with the coffee powder, the pierced disc with stem placed on it and then hot water is added to it. The coffee slowly drips into the bottom half. One can also add some chicory powder to the coffee powder. This adds to the flavor and taste of the coffee. The resulting decoction is so strong that one cannot drink this coffee black. Add one-fourth to one-third decoction and three-fourth to two-third milk, depending on how strong the decoction is.
Add some sugar, milk, and decoction and then mix it by pouring it back and forth between two cups till you generate a lot of froth. The higher you pour the liquid from, the more the froth it generates. This action aerates the resulting liquid and that actually enhances the taste a lot
health search engine
Custom Search
South Indian Filter Coffee
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comments:
The Filter coffee is definitely the best coffee - both in terms of taste and strength. I regularly drink one cup every morning and no more coffee for the rest of the day! (I even have it in me to write blogs:))
One comment i'd like to add is never add milk to the decoction in the beginning. Just add the sugar + decoction, pour it back and forth to create the froth, you'll come to understand how the thickness(and flavor) of the decoction is directly related to the amount of froth generated. Then boil your milk before adding to the frothy decoction for that perfect cup.
Post a Comment