merhaba, class.
can someone tell me the traditional steps to brew türk kahvesi??
cos i've brought several packages of türk kahvesi, but yet, i don't know how to brew and the utensils involved. also, are the leftovers after drinking useful for fortune telling?? just like the greek coffee.
thxxx

just put a little water in a coffee pot and put 2 teaspoon turkish coffee and sugar(how much do you want) and put it on fire and mix it till it near boils(about 2-3 mins.).Good appetite!

is there any rountine step for adding coffee powder followed by sugar?? or vice versa? cos i've heard somebody telling that "add sugar first, b4 adding coffee"...i m doubted!!

you should add the sugar first for the best result.. then the coffee.. and you should take the froth of the coffe before it boils into the glasses.. you will understand when you should take it.. there appears a whitish brown froth on the top.. brush that froths with the spoon during the coffee pot is on the firplace.. the more you do this the better your coffe will be..

thanks for your great tips...
i'll try to brew asap!! serefe!!

hey,
this title must be mine

Lululi,

The way I make it is as follows:

1. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar per person (if you drink it sweet then add additional 1/2 spoon or decrease it)
2. Add 1 tea spoon of coffee per person (I typically will add an extra 1/2 to 1 spoon of coffee as it creates more froft.)
3. Mix it together with your tea spoon
4. Take your Turkish coffee cup and fill it will water
5. If you are making coffee for two then put two turkish cups of water (these cups are usually very small)
6. Let it boil until you see the froft raise.
7. Take your tea spoon and take some of the froft out and putting it in the cups.
8. Let the coffee come to boil again.
9. Stir it and begin adding it to the cups.

Valla........

Let me know how this turns out for you. And yes, the coffee grinds will settle at the bottom of the cup, which can be used to read for fortune telling.

thank you for your kindly reply, let's enjoy türkçe kahvesi.

i trhink you meant to say turk kahvesi.?

This is my Mum's fail proof method of making Turkish coffee. A lot also depends on the brand of coffee as there a few that my Mum won't go near because of their poor flavour. Anyway, here goes.

1. Add cold water to your coffee pot.

2. To this add sugar if taking and one heaped teaspoon of
coffee.

3. Put on the heat and keep stirring until it begins to
come to the boil and then stop stirring. As the froth
begins to raise to the top give it one more stir and
pour into cup. This should give you a coffee with a
light brown froth on top with the coffee grinds
settled at the bottom.

You just have to keep practising until you get it right but the coffee grinds should never be floating at the top and you should never drink these from the bottom of the cup. This is what spoils a nice cup of coffee and puts people off. As far as I'm concerned this is the same as an Italian expresso it's just that they use a coffee percolator to make theirs which seperates the grinds from the liquid making it easier to drink.

Here is my way of making turkish coffee

If you want to make 4 cups of coffe

1. add 4,5(**not 4) cups water into the pot and let it boil
2. into the coffe pot add 1,5 teaspoon of cofee per one cup of water(so for four cops of coffe put 6 teaspoon of coffee)
3. when the water is ready(when start to boil) put coffee pot on the stovetop to get warm not to much(obout 10 seconds) than boiled water pour into cofee pot(you should hear the sound at the moment when you pour boiled water into the coffee pot, cose there is a special sound when boiled water mix with heated coffee)
4. do not stir coffee yet!!!!!!!
5. also do not add any of sugar
6. let it boil again(let foam appear towards the top of the pot/be careful)
7. take coffee pot over the stovetop (to let foam down) and put it again on te stove to boil, repeat this action 3 times
8. remove the pot from the heat(pour some drops of cold water) and set it aside for a minute or two to cool, this allows the coffee grinds to settle on the bottom of the pot.
9. than gently stir foam and put some of foam to each of cups and than add coffee into cups
10. what about sugar?????????? Well everyone is taking as much sugar as needed, somebody like more sugar somebody don't, so you are free to take as much as you like (usually we drink it with cube sugar)

enjoy the coffee

if you want your coffee bol köpüklü you have to use cold water.

And its so yavan if you put one teaspoon perhead if you have a taste of damak you put one and a half teaspoon coffee if you put equal sugar and coffee your coffee will şekerli

i suggest you to drink sade coffee before breakfast

Sounds very complicated I think I will stay wıth çay.

Traditional Turkish coffee is always served with a glass of water on the side.

Does anyone know why?

I underwrite Nightingale's method and measures

Except, start with coffee and sugar in the cold water.....

yes it really be delicious while u r learning turkısh... they r both in turkısh...

In Ayvalik in October, my friend made me coffee just by boiling up the powder and serving it straight away, it was terrible. I poured it back in the pan, made it by the spooning off the froth method and told him that was the way to do it. He was shocked he kept saying 'excuse me MADAM, but who is the Turk here, me or you?'

the best turkish...greek...(oh whatever!) coffee, is made on sand. boilt reaaally slow.

OOh tell me, where do you put the sand. Can you explain sophie?

Heheheh Tiny my friend it is not 'most complicated and long winded version' at all. Believe me I prepare this coffee in less than two minutes(of course after water boils). And it is my pleasure to watch the foam rising up all those times.

Well this is the way of making turkish coffe from the Ottoman Empire while Bosnia was under Turkish rule (1463-1878) hihi ...my grand mother taught me..he rgrandmother taught her and so on...
I wanted to share this old way of making turkish coffee (and traditional here in my country) ..

But instead of coffee pot it is better to use 'cezve' long-handled pot for making Turkish coffee (cezve is made of copper) and it hase better taste in 'copper coffee pot' than when you make it in usual cofee pot.

And here are some advantages for not adding sugar in water (AlphaF):

First** when sugar boils beraber with water and coffee, coffee loses its original taste (chemical reasons do not ask me why)

Second***it is much easier to please your friends, why, well everyone's taste is different , for some of them it could be çok çok şekerli for some of them it can be very bitter(acı and after that they wont ever drink your coffee.
And it is more polite when you ask while serving : do you like more şekerli or less, how much dou you want me to put in your cup one or two teaspon?


Preparing, serving, and drinking coffe should be delightfull.

One more thing: you should always have a sugar pot filled with some pieces of cube sugar couse some of bayanlar like having ‘keyif’ while drinking coffee(like me mesela hehe)