How do you drink Ethiopian coffee?

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Ethiopians regard coffee as life:

People make coffee porridge at weddings--

Coffee beans are cooked with coffee berries, butter and salt.

Medicine to ward off bad luck--

Coffee is mixed with honey and various herbs.

Coffee and tea:

Coffee leaves are mixed with coffee.

But the most important thing is the coffee drinking ceremony.

Coffee ceremony process

Prepare for

The hostess uses a local grass

Lay a floor of 2-3 square meters

Put on a small stove for roasting coffee beans and a small table for utensils.

Then there is the washing of coffee beans.

After washing, spread it evenly on the iron plate.

On the small charcoal stove, start baking.

Ethiopians use a special clay pot to make coffee. Before making coffee, the pot is heated with hot coal. When the pottery pot is heated, the hostess first cleans the coffee beans to remove the parchment-like endocarp and silver skin from the surface of the beans.

Then, the hostess will add a little rosin to the fire, incense the whole room, then take out an iron pan shaped like a pan, put it on the fire, pour in the washed coffee beans and stir-fry with a shovel.

After a few minutes, the coffee beans gradually show a light brown cinnamon color, followed by a crackling sound-usually divided into "one explosion" and "two explosions". Not long after the explosion, the coffee beans turn dark brown. At this time, the coffee beans are poured into a stone mortar, mashed with a pestle and ground into a powder as fine as possible.

Grind the coffee powder, pour it into a warm clay pot and add spices such as cardamom and cinnamon, or add a herb called Adam's Health, and bring it to a boil.

Ethiopians drink coffee from small earless cups with a capacity of 3 ounces. When the coffee powder boils for the first time in the clay pot, the hostess pours the coffee into the cup and adds a spoonful of sugar.

The coffee made in this way is very thick, and the coffee grounds are not filtered. Although most of them remain at the bottom of the cup, there is still powder suspended in the coffee. People who are not used to it will inevitably choke their mouths.

The coffee in the pottery pot can be boiled two or three times. If the guest is served with coffee, the guest will usually leave after the coffee is boiled for the second time.