Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Latte Caro with nougat


Soy milk fits perfectly with coffee and nougat with their nutty flavor. Incidentally also gives you a really great foam.

Ingredients
300 ml of soy milk
2 heaped tablespoons malt coffee
50 g nougat
Cocoa for dusting
Miniquirl
2 drinking straws
2 long-handled spoon

Step 1
The soy milk in a saucepan over medium heat. The malt coffee and nougat with 100 ml of hot water over and dissolve with stirring.
Step 2
Froth the hot soy milk with the Miniquirl and pour into two latte macchiato glasses. The nougat coffee half each can run slowly over a spoon into the glasses, so that below a layer of milk, it is a layer above coffee and milk foam.
Step 3
The bar Caro dust with cocoa. Serve immediately with one straw and a long-handled spoon.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Chocolate Coffee with cream


A harmonious and delicious blend. Drink slowly and don't stir!

Ingredients
100 g dark chocolate
125 g cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 liter of boiled fresh espresso

Step 1
Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a saucepan with 1/4 liter of water over low heat. Then leave the chocolate boil thick in about 20 minutes, while stirring constantly so they do not burn.

Step 2
The cream with 1/2 tablespoon sugar beat only so much that it looks like milkfoam. Sweet hot espresso with the remaining sugar.

Step 3
First distribute the espresso into four glasses. Then carefully pour the chocolate and decorate with whipped cream. Serve without stir.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Latte bambino


The kids emulate their parents for - and find a latte just fine. The kids version is called latte bambino and provides an extra dose of protein for growth. Ideal for in between when mom also just makes coffee break.

Ingredients
1 tsp instant coffee substitute
½ tsp brown sugar
100 ml milk

Step 1
Add a cup or glass to give instant malt coffee and sugar and mix well. 20 ml of water, bring to a boil and pour. The malt coffee-sugar mixture while stirring dissolve.

Step 2
The milk in a saucepan over low heat until smooth, but do not boil. It hit with a small whisk to foam. The milk foam layers gently on the coffee substitute.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Iced Coffee "Marula Orange"


The luxury version of the summer classic is mixed with orange liqueur, juice, cream liqueur and hazelnut syrup. Creamy!

Ingredients
2 scoops vanilla ice cream (200 g, finished product)
2 oz orange liqueur (such as Cointreau)
2 cl orange juice (preferably freshly squeezed)
50 g of cream
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 piece of dark chocolate (10 g, 70% cocoa content)
1/4 liter of cooled coffee
8 cl Amarula (Marulawein cream liqueur, substitute Baileys
6 cl hazelnut syrup

Step 1
Add the vanilla ice cream into a small bowl and let thaw slightly at room temperature for 2-3 minutes. Then stir creamy with orange liqueur and orange juice. Place the ice cream in the freezer and let (preferably overnight) freeze again.

Step 2
The next day the cream with the vanilla sugar until stiff and chill. Finely grate the chocolate. Provide coffee, Amarula and hazelnut syrup with 8 ice cubes into the shaker. Close the shaker and shake vigorously about 20 seconds. The contents of the shaker through the strainer pour into highball glasses.

Step 3
Only the orange-vanilla ice cream, then spread the cream on the glasses. Sprinkle with the grated chocolate and orange peel strips give it. Serve with straws iced coffees immediately.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Latte macchiato

A toasty hot fun. The classic is refined with a good shot of caramel or vanilla syrup.

Ingredients
1/2 liter of milk
Caramel or vanilla syrup (to taste; finished products)
220 ml of freshly boiled coffee
3-4 tsp sugar.

Step 1
Pour the milk into a small saucepan and heat to taste with caramel or vanilla syrup. Freshly brewed espresso with the sugar.

Step 2
Pour the hot milk into high heat-resistant glasses and lather up with the milk frother. Decorative pour the espresso into the milk and serve immediately.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Coffee with foam spice


The spicy alternative to cappuccino: Here the milk is flavored before foaming harmoniously with ginger, cardamom and coriander.

Ingredients
1 tsp coriander seeds
2 cardamom pods
1 large piece of ginger nut
3 tablespoons of sugar
1/4 liter of milk
Nutmeg
4 servings of freshly brewed espresso

Step 1
Coriander and cardamom in a mortar. Peel the ginger and cut into slices, boil with the sugar in the milk and nutmeg rub it. Pour the liquid through a sieve into a milk jug.

Step 2
Preparing Espresso, distribute coffee cups. Froth the milk. Distributed in the shells on the espresso. Serve with a hint of nutmeg.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Arabic cardamom coffee

Kardomom makes the coffee special.

Ingredients
1/2-1 tsp sugar
1 teaspoon of ground coffee
1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

Step 1
3/8 l water with sugar in a small saucepan (ideally a Turkish mocha pot) and heat. Once the water starts to boil, remove the pot from the stove. Coffee and cardamom admit. Bring to a boil over medium heat while stirring and simmer over low heat for 2 minutes, take the pot there again from the heat and Reset. Serve hot.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Caffee Au Lait


French are so wide awake, with relish slurping steaming hot coffee with milk from a bowl. Classically, there's a fine buttery croissant so.


Ingredients

6 scoops coarsely ground, roasted strong coffee (about 40 g) , ¼ tablet chicory coffee spice (may substitute 1 tablespoon corn coffee) , 500 ml of whole milk , Rod filter jug

Step 1
Approx. Boil 500 ml of water. The ground coffee into the filter jug ​​give the essence of coffee crumble it.

Step 2
Take the boiling water off the heat and let cool for about 30 seconds, then pour over the coffee and stir well. Place the lid with a raised filter panel on the pot and let the coffee draw 3-5 min.

Step 3
Meanwhile, heat the milk in a saucepan, but do not boil.

Step 4
Slowly and steadily push the filter disc the coffee pot down.

Step 5
Provide four large coffee cups. Pour simultaneously into each cup of coffee and milk in equal parts. Serve coffee with milk with sugar to taste.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Solccino


Sunrise in the latte: creamy eggnog combines harmoniously with espresso and milk foam and brings the spirits in morning momentum.

Ingredients
2 double espressos
8 cl advocaat
300 ml of milk
2 slim tall glasses (about 200 ml)

Step 1
Prepare the double espressos. Meanwhile, each 4 cl eggnog pour into each glass. Heat the milk and froth vigorously. On the back of a teaspoon each carefully pour half of the milk into the glass and thus stories about the eggnog.

Step 2
Each a double espresso on the back of a teaspoon carefully - like a latte - layers on the milk and serve immediately. Stir vigorously again before enjoying.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Caffee Coretto



A sip of liquor refined espresso here - enjoy your coffee!

Ingredients
2 servings of freshly made ​​espresso
4 cl Italian brandy (or grappa, Sambuca, Maraschino, cognac or whiskey).

Step 1
Espresso cups, prepare the espresso. Distribute the brandy and top with the cup of hot espresso. Serve with white or brown sugar.

Step 2
Or serve as: Distribute Only half of brandy in the cups, pour espresso. Remaining brandy separately in the serving glass. The coffee with brown sugar sweet drink. The sugar residue left in the cup, pour the remaining brandy, stir briefly and enjoy.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Gingerbread Coffee



Ginger in this spicy coffee - that is what fans love. Topped with vanilla whipped cream, the day may come then ...

Ingredients

20 g fresh ginger
4 heaping scoops medium fine ground coffee (about 40 g)
60 g cold cream
1 tbsp glucose syrup, vanilla
4 tablespoons cinnamon candy syrup
1 pinch ground bourbon vanilla

Step 1
Large the cups. Peel the ginger and chop, and cover the coffee filter with ground coffee. With over 1/2 liters of tap water a strong filter coffee ready.

Step 2
Cream with the vanilla syrup beat semi-rigid. Cinnamon candy syrup poured into the cups, pour the hot coffee. Place the cream as bonnet. Serve sprinkled with vanilla.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Cappuccino


Classic: Still a croissant or brioche for dipping it - and the Italian breakfast is perfect!

Ingredients
4 servings of freshly made ​​espresso , 150 ml cold milk (1.5% fat) , 1/2 tsp low fat cocoa powder

Step 1
Cappuccino cups and large coffee cups preheat. Prepare the espresso.

Step 2
Pour milk into a heatproof jug. If you have an espresso machine with steam wand, hold the pot under the nozzle so that it is in the middle of the milk. Turn on the steam gently and easily move the jug up and down, so that the steam flows evenly through the milk. If a thick foam has formed, and the milk is 60 ° hot, spread on the coffee cups and pour the frothed milk peppy, so that it mixes with the coffee. Do not stir, so that the bonnet of milk foam remains. Sprinkle with cocoa and serve to taste with fine white sugar.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Iced Cappuccino



If it's too hot for the classic cappuccino: chilled a refreshing summer drink.

Ingredients
6 servings of strong freshly brewed espresso
2-3 tablespoons of sugar
8 ice cubes
150 ml milk (1.5% fat)

Step 1
Preparing espresso, let it cool and refrigerate for about 2 hours.

Step 2
Shake coffee, sugar and ice cubes in a blender or shaker and mix vigorously until the ice is crushed. Add milk and mix or shake frothy. Fill and serve immediately in tall highball glasses.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Sharp Chococcino



It's like hot espresso and creamy chocolate to be brought under the hood of spicy chili cream.

Ingredients
300 ml of milk
20 g dark chocolate (min. 70% cocoa)
100 g cream
Chili powder
2 pinches of sugar
2 espressos
Milk frother
2 Cappuccino Cups

Step 1
Heat the milk with the chocolate on medium heat, dissolve the chocolate, stirring occasionally. Serving Meanwhile the cream with 1 tiny pinch of chili powder and sugar. That's fine with the milk frother, the cream is not entirely fixed, but remains somewhat creamy.

Step 2
Prepare the espresso, and the cappuccino the cups. When the chocolate has melted, briefly mix the chocolate with the milk frother. He demanded that the espresso finish. Distribute the espressos and chocolate milk on the cappuccino cups and put on both a cream topping. The Chococcino sipping pleasure through the chili cream.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Coffee Baharat



Spices such as cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg give this mocha oriental spice.

Ingredients
2 cardamom pods
2 cloves
1 inch cinnamon stick
1 each allspice and pepper grain
1 small piece mace
2 scoops heavily roasted very finely ground coffee (mocha, about 15 g)
3 tsp sugar

Step 1
Cause seeds of the cardamom pods and fry with the other spices in a dry pan over medium heat, stirring for about 5 minutes, until fragrant. In a mortar finely crush. Passed with the coffee powder in a ibrik or Cesve, and cook with 150 ml of cold water as Mocha Oriental and serve.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Lebanese coffee


Cardamom and nutmeg give this Lebanese mocha its typical aroma.

Ingredients

2 green cardamom pods
2 scoops of finely ground roasted strong coffee (mocha, about 15 g)
3 tsp sugar
1 pinch of freshly grated nutmeg or clove powder

Step 1
Break open the cardamom pods, trigger the black seeds and coffee powder, sugar, and a hint of nutmeg 150 ml of cold water into a jug handle (ibrik, Cesve) give. Slowly bring to the boil and stir it so that hardly forms foam. Short take off the heat, then put it back and bring to the boil again. Repeat a third time. You can serve this in small coffee cup.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Dutch coffee

Ingredients

1/2 cup of Coffee, filtered hot, strong
0.33 cup of Eggnog
1 tbsp Whipped cream
1 pinch Cocoa powder

Preparation

Working time: about 2 min
Difficulty: easy

Pour the coffee into a cup, it give the eggnog. Put whipped cream on it and powdering with cocoa.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Amaretto - Coffee

Ingredients

8 cl Milk
2 cl Amaretto
Coffee

Preparation

Working time: about 3 min
Difficulty: easy

Heat the milk in a cup in the microwave. The amaretto liqueur and add the milk frother with Froth. Fill with black coffee. Done.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Coffee liqueur

Ingredients for 1 Portion

250 ml Alcohol 95%
1 bag Vanilla
500 ml Coffee (espresso)
300 g Sugar

Preparation

Working time: about 20 min
Difficulty: easy

Mix hot coffee with the sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Let the mixture cool.
Then add the alcohol.
Shake the ingredients in the bottle vigorously.
In this variant, but it is so that you always have in the bottle neck down the sugar.
Then always shake well before serving. Fits very well with Limoncello. Whether or limoncello limoncello crema. A part coffee liqueur and then enter the limoncello about it.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Four cups of coffee a day are no problem

Who works at the computer, drinking usually too little. Or especially a lot of coffee. Now, studies show that coffee passion is healthier than expected.

At least 1.5 liters of water should you drink every day, the nutrition experts recommend. About every second respondent does not create that , the study diet eat what Germany laid the technician health insurance. According to her, it falls to 43 per cent hard to make the job a sufficient liquid supply. Among women, there are slightly more (47 percent), among men slightly less (41 percent).

They drink very little employees with higher education, who have a desk job: Nearly 60 percent of them were found to have problems with it , to take the recommended amount of liquid to be. Maybe because a physically strenuous activity makes less thirsty quickly than other jobs. Or because you can easily get used to lack of fluid.

Only if it is larger, many complain of difficulty concentrating, fatigue and headaches. The brain consists of about 80 percent water - no wonder that the water shortage is noticeable also in the head. It also leads to viscous blood, which strains circulation and digestion.

However, experts disagree about how much fluid intake man actually needs. The German Nutrition Society recommends office workers to about 1.5 liters per day. In the warm spring and summer months, according to her, it should be double. At least three liters a day should also take yourself who establish regular heavy physical work. Researchers at the American University of Pennsylvania, however, that evaluated several clinical studies on water consumption and health a few years ago, could not demonstrate that people who drank at least two liters per day, were healthier than others.

Coffee is good


Fact: On average, 2.5 liters of water differs from an adult in the course of a day, a portion of it through respiration. Good one liter of water, the body gets back on solid food again. Many fruits and vegetables contain up to 70 percent water, meat may even consist of 75 percent water. Cucumbers are 95 percent on most water. About 300 milliliters is the body's metabolic processes forth by itself. The rest must be supplied for drinks. Particularly suitable tap water, mineral, spring and table water and fruit juice spritzers apply.

Even coffee is healthier than expected. An average of 150 liters of coffee drinking in every German average. Long he was considered unhealthy. He withdrawing water from the body, tend to have high blood pressure, übersäuere the blood and is not good for the heart.

Diet Study: Coffee, the healthy sin

Even a cup for a long life? A large U.S. study found that coffee has a positive effect on health. Nevertheless, typical coffee drinkers on average live shorter - because they have other unhealthy habits.

Coffee, black: How exactly, study participants drank their coffee was not recorded

At one point, the researchers are certain: On caffeine, it can not be. Because, according to their study data and decaffeinated coffee usually affect the health alike. So if protecting substances from the hot drink a little before heart disease and other diseases, there must be other than the person responsible for the stimulating effect of caffeine.

Neal Freedman of the National Institutes of Health, USA and colleagues analyzed information from approximately 229,000 men and 173,000 women since the mid-nineties in a large study ( NIH AARP Diet and Health Study who participated). All had completed a questionnaire with various information at the beginning of their lifestyle - eating habits, alcohol consumption, sports stint and much more. At baseline, participants were 50-71 years old.
By the year 2008 52.515 participants died, the researchers in the "New England Journal of Medicine" report. The team calculated Freedman now is whether or coffee drinkers rather than later killed, participants who consumed preferably other drinks arrived.

In fact, they died earlier. However, coffee drinkers turned out more often than couch potatoes and as regular consumers of alcohol - in addition they spurned more fruits and vegetables and ate red meat more often . The most obvious connection: Of the men who drank no coffee at all, 4.8 percent smoked. In the group with the highest coffee consumption (six cups a day or more), however, 34.7 percent were smokers. For women it was 8.1 or 48.1 percent. So the bottom line was - once again: Anyone who drinks a lot of coffee, a total of more unhealthy lives.

Helpful rather than harmful


To find out if the coffee is just another bad habit or looks more positive, the researchers calculated that out just enumerated, and other known factors. So they came to the conclusion that coffee protects rather than harms.

"Compared with men who consumed no coffee, had men who drank six or more cups a day, a ten-percent lower risk of dying during the study period," the scientists write. In women, the risk fell by as much as 15 percent. A result similar, previous studies confirmed.

Whether the coffee contained caffeine or not, it did not matter. May affect antioxidants contained in the hot drink is positive, the researchers speculate.
As with all studies based not interview people once in their life habits and then for many years to wait and collect data, there was also the problem that no one can be sure in the end that really the coffee has identified the observed difference. Perhaps there are other behaviors that differ from non-coffee drinker coffee drinkers who were not recorded or observed. Maybe the simple observation can explain the fact that the coffee drinkers have taken to something more fluid than the others - or that they have fewer heavy drinking sugary soft drinks.

In summary, it means: Just because coffee drinkers - if you have eliminated all other factors - living longer, extended coffee not life.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Species and Varieties

  • Arabica coffee has a world market share of about 60% of the coffee produced. This type of bean that contains only half the caffeine compared to the Robusta bean, has become popular and famous mainly for their aroma.
  • Robusta has about 36% share of world production. Visually, this bean differs by a straight incision in the bean from Arabica with wavy incision. The farmers of this variety is especially appreciated for its durability and its shorter maturation time (compared to the Arabica).
  • Excelsa beans is considered rare and was built in 1904 on Lake Chad found. It has all of the strongest varieties of bean growth. It stands out above all the ability to drier soil to thrive and to achieve a satisfactory yield in low rainfall years. Nevertheless, it has only one percent share of world production.
  • Stenophylla : The particularly small-leaved plant from West Africa ( Guinea and Sierra Leone ) can be planted in up to 700 meters above sea level. In Sierra Leone, the famous "Highland Coffee" is made ​​with this variety. The beans are large and round, the fruits are black when mature.
  • Liberica : Inferior and economically insignificant kind, considered to be profitable and highly resistant to parasites.
  • Maragogype : A mutation of the Arabica bean or other theory, a cross between Arabica and Libericabohne. The beans are one third larger than the usual coffee beans. The variety is grown mainly in Mexico and Nicaragua. The species grows best at altitudes from 400 to 1,200 meters. Despite its size, the crop yield is usually lower than other types of coffee.
  • In Vietnam as cà Phe Sua Da offered a coffee blend that also the types in addition to the known species Robusta and Arabica Catimor and Chari contains. This is a very dark coffee with a nutty-chocolaty taste. These coffee blends containing these varieties in different mixing ratios and also contain rare or Liberica Excelsa beans. Due to the local notion of the coffee taste these blends the largest share of the coffee demand cover there. Mixtures containing the mentioned on the world market rather unknown coffee species are only available as an import products in Asian stores outside the country of Vietnam. Chari coffee is offered as a natural decaffeinated coffee due to its very low caffeine content, which is not decaffeinated be needs.
  • As the rarest and most expensive coffee places in the world is the Indonesian Kopi Luwak . It occurs when the civet luwak eats coffee cherries and beans retires, their taste properties have been changed by fermentation in the intestines of animals. Here they, among other bitter substances are removed.