Coffee ceremony in Ethiopia experience local traditional coffee ceremony

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There are many different ways to make coffee today. It is very popular all over the world, and many different countries and cultures have added their own delicacies to it. In Ethiopia, they are famous for performing the so-called Ethiopian coffee ceremony.

Ethiopia has an ancient tradition of making coffee. Drinking coffee (or Buna in Amharic) during the holiday season is a habit. However, people drink coffee on special parties and birthdays.

Time required: 30 minutes.

How to make Ethiopian coffee

The coffee ceremony in Ethiopia lasts for two hours and is a long tradition of the Ethiopian people. If you want to know how to make coffee, this is where it all started. First, start with cleaning and baking. Then bake the beans into a medium concentration of coffee.

The Ethiopian coffee ceremony is of historic significance and is an important part of Ethiopian cultural identity. It is mainly a social activity, focusing on spending time with friends and relatives and, of course, drinking coffee.

Prepare for

Clean coffee grinder, ceni, and baking pan. Any residual taste in different foods will change the taste of coffee.

Unroasted coffee beans should be washed three times.

Open the top of the furnace and set it to medium. An open window / door. You don't want to trigger the smoke detector.

Coffee roasting

Put the washed unbaked coffee beans on the coffee plate and begin to cook. The coffee is roasted for about ten minutes.

Keep stirring the coffee, or it will burn and become bitter. When all the coffee beans turn dark golden, take them off the stove.

Put the roasted coffee beans in a place that cools at room temperature (about 5 minutes).

Brew coffee

Grind the roasted coffee beans with a coffee mill.

Pour two cups of water into the jebena.

Add ground coffee to the coffee cup. Turn the stove to medium fire. Let jebena stand on the stove for ten minutes.

When the coffee rises to the top of the hot bena coffee, turn off the gas.

Tilt the coffee cup so that the coffee powder settles to the bottom of the coffee cup.

Be careful not to move the jebena that has been placed. Moving will mix the bottom and top layers of the coffee.

Service coffee

Put the service board on the service board. Pour coffee from jebena into cines. Add sugar or salt to the coffee.

Necessary tools

Jebena (Ethiopian coffee maker)

Ceni (Ethiopian small Cup)

Coffee grinder

Ethiopian coffee pot (you can use daily pot)

Composition

2 cups of water

2 to 3 cups of unroasted coffee beans (Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee)

A tablespoon of salt

A tablespoon of sugar