I have always loved filter coffee. There is no comparison to its aroma, perfect amount of slight milkiness and 'just-about' sweetness. And who can forget the fun of pouring it from one tumbler to another to make it all frothy! Filter coffee experience is just incomplete without it! Whenever I go to an udipi or the Banana Leaf, I always order one, whatever the time of the day.
Much as I love filter coffee, I have never tried it at home. Yesterday, I saw (rather was led to it by its aroma) a packet of filter coffee grinds from a local Matunga shop at the small grocery shop near my house and I picked it up. Because of the beautiful fragrance coming from it, I thought it's definitely worth a try!
Today morning I finally tried my hand at making filter coffee and I managed to nail it! To keep the theme going, I also made upma with it for breakfast and had a great headstart today!
Filter Coffee
3 tsps filter coffee grinds
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup milk
Sugar to taste
Method
Bring the water to a boil. Take the coffee grinds on a chhalni and put it on your serving cup or mug or steel tumbler. Slowly pour the boiled water in a very thin trickle over it. Traditionally this is done through a brass filter, but I do not have one, so I adapted the method and used a common everyday chhalni definitely found in all kitchens. Please see picture below.
Boil the milk in a separate container and add it into the coffee. Add in the sugar.
Take another tumbler or mug and pour the coffee from one to another from a height of about 1/2 a foot to 1 foot in a trickle. Do this till the sugar dissolves and the coffee has a layer of froth on top.
Serve piping hot!
P.S. This coffee needs real filter coffee grinds that are 100% coffee beans. Instant coffee powders have only 70% coffee beans and the rest are chicory beans. You can easily buy filter coffee grinds in Matunga (Central suburb) near kabootarkhana if you're in Mumbai. At a lot of places otherwise local tea-only shops also carry at least two varieties of filter coffee grinds.
Much as I love filter coffee, I have never tried it at home. Yesterday, I saw (rather was led to it by its aroma) a packet of filter coffee grinds from a local Matunga shop at the small grocery shop near my house and I picked it up. Because of the beautiful fragrance coming from it, I thought it's definitely worth a try!
Today morning I finally tried my hand at making filter coffee and I managed to nail it! To keep the theme going, I also made upma with it for breakfast and had a great headstart today!
Filter Coffee
3 tsps filter coffee grinds
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup milk
Sugar to taste
Method
Bring the water to a boil. Take the coffee grinds on a chhalni and put it on your serving cup or mug or steel tumbler. Slowly pour the boiled water in a very thin trickle over it. Traditionally this is done through a brass filter, but I do not have one, so I adapted the method and used a common everyday chhalni definitely found in all kitchens. Please see picture below.
The aroma of a great morning: filter coffee grinds!
Boil the milk in a separate container and add it into the coffee. Add in the sugar.
Take another tumbler or mug and pour the coffee from one to another from a height of about 1/2 a foot to 1 foot in a trickle. Do this till the sugar dissolves and the coffee has a layer of froth on top.
Serve piping hot!
Filter coffee and upma
P.S. This coffee needs real filter coffee grinds that are 100% coffee beans. Instant coffee powders have only 70% coffee beans and the rest are chicory beans. You can easily buy filter coffee grinds in Matunga (Central suburb) near kabootarkhana if you're in Mumbai. At a lot of places otherwise local tea-only shops also carry at least two varieties of filter coffee grinds.
P.S. 2: I have submitted the picture "The aroma of a great morning: filter coffee grinds!" for the The Colour Me Photography Challenge Series for the September Colour Me Brown Challenge.
Although I am not a coffee person your post is tempting me to try making filter coffee at home Disha :) Loved the click. And thank you so much for sending it for Colour Me :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Priya! I am a tea person to (see my profile, and you'll know!) but I cannot resist filter coffee! :-) It was a great experience participating in the July edition of Colour Me and it has been great fun this time too! :-)
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Disha,
ReplyDeleteI have a pack of 'Starbucks' lying in my pantry for like forever...b'coz I don't have coffee filter but use of chhalni ... good idea!
P.S. A year back I was in Mumbai and miss the rains
Thanks, I always like to adapt as I buy very less kitchen 'tools'! And much as people tend to grumble about rains when they're in Mumbai (I can't, I love every moment of monsoons!) they do miss the rains when they move away!
ReplyDeleteNice post Disha. I am a very tea/coffee person and the aroma of filter coffee in the morning helps me soothe.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Mornings do become great with the aroma of filter coffee!
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