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How To Make Turkish Coffee (Turk Kahvesi)

A copper Turkish coffee pot pouring coffee into a traditional cup.

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How to make Turkish coffee in its traditional way.

Ingredients

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  • 2 Turkish coffee cups water
  • 4 teaspoons Turkish coffee

  • 1 cube sugar (see the note below)

Instructions

  1. Measure water with a small coffee cup. Use one small cup of water for one person, two cups for two people. Pour it directly into a small pot called cezve.

Notes

  • You always need to ask your guests how sweet they like their coffee. Possible options are as follows: Unsweetened (no sugar added), with little sugar (add ½ cube sugar), a bit sweeter (add 1 cube sugar) and super sweet (add 2 cubes sugar). The sugar measurement here is for one coffee cup. If you are making coffee for more than one person and everyone has different sugar likings, make their coffee separately.
  • Use cold filtered water. Never try to make it with warm or hot water.
  • Mix the coffee, water and sugar (if you are using any) in the pot gently until combined. Don’t mix it fast. Always treat your coffee kindly.
  • Cook your coffee on the lowest heat, stirring two or three times until it starts to rise. Never let it boil. Remove it right before it boils and share the foams into the cups, using a teaspoon.
  • After transferring the foams to the cups and reheating the coffee, pour it slowly into the cups so that the bubbles remain safe.
  • Don’t worry if you don’t have a traditional cezve or ibrik. A small saucepan works fine as well. The smaller, the better. If you are using a large saucepan and making the coffee for two, you won't have enough foams. On the other hand, if you make it with 6-7 coffee cups of water and enough coffee for this serving, you will manage to get the foams. If you are after an easier and quicker way, you can definitely look for electrical Turkish coffee makers in the form of a pot online.

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