Prepare the Arabic Coffee as a professional with different flavors & avoid these mistakes

The preparation of Arabic coffee is an art and sense, as the Arabic coffee is not only a common drink but also has an important position in Arabian homes, because of its relevance to original Arabic values such as generosity, hospitality, and originality.

You must give a lot of attention to preparing Arabic coffee in high quality because it reflects How much you care about your guest, so you should ensure that you prepare it in the correct way & free of defects, to have a rich taste and original aroma. Otherwise, you may be embarrassed in front of your guests, so follow these tips and don’t make these mistakes while you are making Arabic coffee.

Index:

• Recipes to make Arabic coffee.
• How to Prepare traditional Arabic coffee?
• How to prepare Arabic coffee with saffron?
• How to prepare Arabic coffee with rose water?
• How to prepare Saudi Arabic coffee with spices?
• How to prepare the original Yemeni coffee?
• 7 mistakes to avoid when preparing Arabic coffee

Recipes to prepare Arabic coffee

Every country has a recipe to make Arabic coffee, and every recipe has many tastes depending on the spices added to the coffee, even so, the preparation process starts from roasting the coffee beans.

In the past, Arabs roasted coffee beans by “Al-Mehmas” referring to a concave vessel with a long iron handle called “Al-Mehbash”.

But nowadays there are a lot of machines that can do it in the home, and there are a lot of people who buy roasted & crushed coffee and make a mix between spices which became one of the main components of Arabic coffee, and there are many spices you can add to give different flavors.

How to Prepare the traditional Arabic coffee

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water.
• 4 tablespoons of crushed coffee.
• 1 tablespoon of Cardamom.

How to prepare:

• Put the water in the pot specialized for coffee on the fire until boiling.
• Add coffee and cardamom to the water while stirring.
• Reduce the heat and leave the mixture to boil for a quarter of an hour.
• Filter the coffee and pour it into a thermos so that it stays hot for as long as possible.

Note: Arabic coffee with ginger can be prepared by adding a teaspoon of fresh or dried ginger with cardamom to get a distinct flavor and to get many benefits.

How to prepare Arabic coffee with saffron

Adding spices to Arabic coffee gives coffee an attractive taste and aroma, and saffron is one of the additions that make coffee a special mood for many of its lovers. It can be added after the coffee ingredients are deposited at the bottom of the coffee pot, then calm the fire until the ingredients are mixed well, and you can smell the aroma of saffron with coffee.

How to prepare Arabic coffee with rose water

Many prefer to prepare Arabic coffee with rose water, due to the special flavor and aroma it adds, so you can add a teaspoon of rose water to the Arabic coffee, filter it and pour it into a thermos, make sure that you cover the thermos well, and wait for 5 minutes before serving until the ingredients are mixed. 

How to prepare Saudi Arabic coffee with spices

Saudi Arabic coffee is distinguished by its spices and the period we spend cooking it on the fire.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of boiled water.
• 4 tablespoons of Saudi coffee.
• 1 tablespoon of powdered Cardamom.
• 1 tablespoon of open Cardamom beans.
• 1 teaspoon of cloves.
• 1 teaspoon of ginger.
• 1 teaspoon of powdered saffron.

How to prepare it?

• Purify the Saudi coffee beans from impurities well.
• Roast the coffee beans well until the desired degree of roasting is reached, which is preferably medium between yellow and brown.
• Put the boiling water in the coffee pot, add the coffee while stirring until it boils.
• Reduce the fire while the mix is boiling for 15 - 30 minutes or deposit components in the bottom of the coffee pot.
• Add spices to the coffee pot and keep the mix on low fire for another five minutes.
• Filter the components and put the coffee into Dallah or thermos to preserve its temperature.

** Note: The original Emirati coffee can be prepared in the same way as before without using cloves.

Know more about: the traditions in making Arabic coffee and serving it to guests.

How to prepare the original Yemeni coffee 

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water.
• 4 tablespoons of medium roasted coffee beans.
• 4 teaspoons of powdered ginger.
• Sugar as you taste.

How to prepare:

• Put the water in the pot specialized for coffee.
• Add the coffee and the other components while continuing stirring.
• Reduce the fire until the ingredients are cooked.
•  Filter the mix and put it into the thermos to keep it hot for the longest time.

Qishr coffee

The coffee husk is the coating surrounding the coffee bean, and it has many benefits such as enhancing digestive health and aiding weight loss, and here is how to prepare it.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water.
• Half a cup of coffee husk.
• Small piece of fresh ginger.
• Half a cinnamon stick.

How to prepare it?

• Put the water in the pot specialized for coffee and add the coffee husk.
• Add ginger and a cinnamon stick.
• Put the pot on the fire until boiling.
• Reduce the fire while the mix is boiling for 10 - 15 minutes.
• Filter the mix and put it into the thermos to keep it hot for the longest time.

Sweet Hadrami coffee

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water.
• 1 cup of powdered coffee.
• 1 cup of brown sugar.
• 1 cup of white sugar.
• 1 tablespoon of ginger.
• 4 open cardamom beans.

How to prepare it?

• Put the water in the pot specialized for the coffee.
• Add the other ingredients while you are stirring the mix.
• Reduce the fire for 15 minutes.
• Filter the mix and put it into the thermos to keep it hot for the longest time.

Yamani Baydaneia coffee

Ingredients:

• Pressure cooker.
• 1 1/2 cup peanuts.
• 1 cup of peeled almonds.
• 1/2 cup sesame.
• 2 tablespoons of coffee husk.
• 1 tablespoon of ginger.
• 1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon.
• sugar as you prefer.
• 10 cups of water.
• a cup of milk. 

How to prepare it?

• Put the peanuts and almonds with the water in the pressure cooker on a high fire.
• Let the mix boil on high fire for 5 minutes.
• Reduce the fire to medium while the mix is cooked for 15 minutes.
• Turn off the fire and open the pressure whistle.
• Put the ingredients in the pot specialized to the coffee.
• Add 2 cups of water.
• Add the sesame, coffee, ginger, and cinnamon while you are stirring to ensure the mixing of the ingredients.

7 mistakes to avoid when preparing Arabic coffee

There are some mistakes that may affect the taste of coffee, the following are the most important of these mistakes:

• Purchase poor quality coffee: There are cheap & poor quality types of coffee available in the market. If you buy it, this will have a bad effect on the taste of Arabic coffee.
• Purchase stored coffee: You must buy fresh coffee as it loses its wonderful taste & aroma if it is kept for a long time in the store or at home.
• Not to adhere to the exact ingredients: This always affects the taste of Arabic coffee, so even when preparing large quantities, make sure to adhere to the ingredients we mentioned, or you can purchase ready-made Arabic coffee mixes available in the market.
• The coffee isn’t cooked well: you must cook the coffee for the ideal time and ensure stirring it well. Otherwise, this will make it taste more like water mixed with coffee. 
• Not cleaning the utensils you use well: Of course, If the utensils used to prepare coffee is not clean, it will affect its taste, so the following are great tips for how to clean the thermos, to preserve the taste and aroma of coffee as well as avoid the health risks may unclean utensils cause.
• Not using the original thermoses: If you don’t use an original thermos to keep your drink hot, this may affect your drink taste, because of the reaction between the materials and the hot drink, which may have bad effects on your health, that’s why you must keep your coffee in the original thermoses which considered The best thermoses preserve the drink temperature and healthy also.
• Not customizing special thermos for Arabic Coffee: It’s a common mistake that may change the taste of the coffee into the thermos, this also may affect the taste of any drink you will put after the coffee.
• You can learn more about the mistakes occurring within the preparation and serving the Arabic Coffee, to do it in the best way. 

Summary:

There are many recipes to prepare Arabic coffee, the most common is Saudi Arabic Coffee, Yemeni Arabic Coffee, you can also add cardamom & saffron, and rose water.  Choose the recipe you prefer, but make sure not to do the common mistakes we mentioned.