Filter coffee

I am totally a filter coffee lover but Making filter coffee (filter kaapi) isn’t a big deal but to get the perfection sure comes only practise. I can’t start my daily chores without my filter kaapi

Filter Kaapi (Coffee) Recipe

Ingredients

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 15 mins Serves: 2 to 3

Recipe Category: Beverage Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Nadu(kumbakonam)

For the decotion:

Coffee Powder - 3 tsp
Water - 1 cup

For the coffee:

Strong decotion - 1/4 cup (adjust according to the strongness you want)
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 tsp.
Note : This decotion can make around 2-3 cups of coffee depending on the strongness.

Method:

1. First add 3 tsps of filter coffee powder to the filter container.

2. Allow it to boil and water vaporises and for decotion (it should be in syrup consistency for strongest)

3. Add sugar in the serving tumbler.

4. Then add decotion may be 2- 3 tsp(depends on how strong you need your coffee to be). Boil the milk then add it to tumbler by straining milk in the same tumbler. Pour from the tawara to the tumbler for once or twice until frothy. Filter coffee is ready serve it hot and frothy. (I don’t have tawara so I used cup and mixed it with spoon).

Notes:

1. Once the decotion is added to the milk, do not heat it. If you want to heat then place the coffee tumbler inside a container of boiling water.

2. It is not necessary to refrigerate the decotion and it can be used for 2-3 days longer it stays stronger the decotion.

3. We can take even 2 decotion by adding in little more water once the 1 st decotion is taken but the 2nd decotion will not strong.

4. If you use decotion stored in fridge, heat the decotion separately by placing it inside a container which has boiling water.

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