Which country do mocha beans come from? what is the relationship between mocha beans and mocha coffee?

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More than 1500 years ago, coffee trees were introduced to Yemen on the other side of the Red Sea, thus embarking on a world tour of coffee beans. Yemeni coffee is exported from the port of Mocha (now silted and abandoned) to all parts of the world (mainly sold to Europe through Turkey). So Yemeni coffee gets its name from the export port, which is what we often see today as "mocha beans".

Mocha beans: from Ethiopia, Yemen was called Arabian until the 6th century in the park, so the coffee trees transported from them to other places were also called Arabian coffee trees. Yemen is the first country in the world to produce coffee on a large scale as a crop. The method of cultivation and treatment of mocha coffee in Yemen today is basically the same as that of hundreds of years ago.

On most coffee farms in Yemen, coffee farmers still resist the use of artificial chemicals such as chemical fertilizers, and as in the past, the trees are planted on steep terraces in order to maximize the use of less rainfall and limited land resources. What is more unique is that Yemeni mocha beans are still shipped in a bag made of straw, rather than chemical woven bags in other places.

Beans are small and fragrant, with strong sour and mellow taste, slightly alcoholic flavor, spicy stimulation, moderate sweetness and special flavor. It is a well-known high-quality coffee, usually drunk individually.

At present, the coffee produced in Yemen is the best, followed by Ethiopia's mocha; mocha coffee belt smooth in the acid to strong acid, sweet, unique flavor, containing chocolate flavor; with the temperament of a lady, is a very characteristic pure coffee.

Mocha (Mocca) because the bean shape is very small, also known as small mocha, Central and South American small mocha not only small beans, but also low yield, generally small mocha beans about 10 to 11 orders, that is, beans between 0.39cm to 0.43cm, which is much smaller than the general 18-purpose Central American beans, beans 0.7cm, much smaller. Notice that the little mocha has a flat surface, that is, a fruit contains two raw beans. Of course, small mochas also have small round beans, but the proportion is only 2%, which is much lower than the 5% to 10% of the average Arabica.

The origin "mocha" beans are full of wild flavor due to the ancient manual drying method, and there is a strong "chocolate flavor" in the finish rhyme, so in Italian coffee, "chocolate coffee" is called "mocha coffee". Like the classic Italian latte, it is usually made of 1/3 Espresso and 2/3 foam, but it also adds a small amount of chocolate sauce.

Chocolate is usually added in the form of chocolate syrup, but some coffee selling systems are replaced by instant chocolate powder. Sometimes, whipped cream, cocoa powder, and cotton candy are added to add to the aroma of coffee and as a decoration. Unlike the Italian Cappuccino, there is no milk foam on the mocha. Instead, mocha coffee is usually topped with cream and cinnamon or cocoa powder. It is also possible to add sunflower honey powder to the surface as a decoration and add flavor.

Practice:

1. Put the whipped cream in the refrigerator before you beat it.

two。 Squeeze the right amount of chocolate sauce into the coffee cup

3. Mix coffee and hot water and add to the coffee cup.

4. Stir thoroughly with a stirring rod.

5. Add 20% of the total whipped cream to the sugar.

6. Mount the ribbon with a chrysanthemum beak and put in the whipped cream. Squeeze the flowers on the coffee in the direction of the spiral and sift the cocoa powder.

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