"Madras Filter Coffee" also known as "Degree Kaapee" is made from first decoction.
Most of the Madrasis are coffee lovers, each day is started only with the cup of a filter coffee. The aroma of traditional-authentic "Madras Filter Coffee" is magical and will take you to the heaven!
My akka is an avid coffee lover who would never compromise her first cup of coffee for anything, and believes that her day is incomplete without coffee. For many people like my akka coffee means everything for them and feel time is no barrier for having it.
The traditional Degree Kaapee is brewed using a metal coffee filter that has two containers, the upper container with perforated bottom and lower container to hold the decoction.
Serve: 2 cups
All you need is:
1. Filter Coffee powder - 3 tbsp
2. Water - 3/4 cup
3. Milk - 1 - 1/2 cup
4. Sugar - as desired
How to make it?
1.Add the coffee powder to the upper container
2.Boil water and pour it slowly on top of coffee powder in the upper container till it is 3/4th
3.Allow decoction to drip in lower conatiner (a slow process
Most of the Madrasis are coffee lovers, each day is started only with the cup of a filter coffee. The aroma of traditional-authentic "Madras Filter Coffee" is magical and will take you to the heaven!
My akka is an avid coffee lover who would never compromise her first cup of coffee for anything, and believes that her day is incomplete without coffee. For many people like my akka coffee means everything for them and feel time is no barrier for having it.
The traditional Degree Kaapee is brewed using a metal coffee filter that has two containers, the upper container with perforated bottom and lower container to hold the decoction.
Serve: 2 cups
All you need is:
1. Filter Coffee powder - 3 tbsp
2. Water - 3/4 cup
3. Milk - 1 - 1/2 cup
4. Sugar - as desired
How to make it?
1.Add the coffee powder to the upper container
2.Boil water and pour it slowly on top of coffee powder in the upper container till it is 3/4th
3.Allow decoction to drip in lower conatiner (a slow process
that would take around 20 to 30 mins, then allow it to cool down to room temperature)
4.Boil milk and Mix 1/3 cup of dripped coffee decoction with 2/3 cup of boiled milk and sugar as desired
5.The mixed coffee is traditionally served in stainless steel tumbler and cup called the dabarah set
6.Now, pour coffee back and forth between the dabarah and the tumbler in arc-like motion to make the froth
4.Boil milk and Mix 1/3 cup of dripped coffee decoction with 2/3 cup of boiled milk and sugar as desired
5.The mixed coffee is traditionally served in stainless steel tumbler and cup called the dabarah set
6.Now, pour coffee back and forth between the dabarah and the tumbler in arc-like motion to make the froth
7.Once the required froth is formed, Serve hot and enjoy each sip
Points to remember:
1. Preparing decoction is a technique which is perfected only by practice
2. Vivekanandha/Narasus coffee powder are good choices for the original taste
3. customise your coffee powder by choosing the right proportion (i like my Filter Coffee powder to be in the proportion 70% coffee + 30% chicory...coz i don't like much caffeine)
4. Do not boil after mixing, or reheat the coffee (as the aroma and taste will be lost when reheated)
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