Middle Eastern•comfort
Arabic Coffee
Arabic Qahwa or Arabic Coffee, is a very light coffee made with light roasted coffee beans that are still green, and with lots of cardamom.
- Prep time
- 3 min
- Cook time
- 17 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
8
- 500 ml water
- 3 tbsp ground light roast coffee (or 4 Tbsp beans to grind fresh)
- 1 tbsp cardamoms (coarsely ground)
- 1 clove 1 clove
- small pinch saffron
- 1/2 tsp rose water
- sugar as needed (nutritional info is based on 2 tsp per person)
Instructions
- 1
Whichever coffee pot you are using to serve, fill it up with hot water to warm it up. Don't forget to empty it before trying to pour the Arabic coffee in!
- 2
Bring the water to boil in a small saucepan, ibrik or stovetop kettle. Add coffee, bring back to boil, then lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
- 3
Add cardamom, clove and the saffron and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes.
- 4
Take off heat and strain through a sieve into the EMPTY, warm coffee pot. Stir in the rose water.
- 5
Serve immediately, as mentioned, with something sweet and filling the cups only halfway up.