Cerrero Coffee Recipe
Café Cerrero is a very black coffee without sugar; widely consumed in many regions of Colombia. Learn in this simple recipe how to make Café Cerrero simply and quickly.
Ingredients
- 1 pound coffee beans (processed but unroasted coffee beans)
- 1 panela
- 2 cups of water
- 6 cloves or sweets
- cinammon sticks to taste
Step by step preparation
- The first thing you do is roast the coffee seeds, in a large pan (a wide-based pan, it can be clay or metal), stirring with a wooden paddle until golden brown. To know if the coffee is well roasted, you bite into a bean, and if it breaks without much pressure, it is done. (Beans will reduce to 20% during roasting.)
- When the coffee is roasted, add 1 panela melted in water, which will give off a lot of smoke. At that moment, add the 6 sweet cloves and the cinnamon sticks to taste. Immediately remove from heat and let cool.
- Take the roasted and caramelized coffee beans, rub them between your hands until they are well coated, and grind them finely.
- The resulting ground coffee is then packed in a jar to preserve its aroma.
- The drink is prepared by adding ground coffee to boiling water, after which the contents are passed through a cloth filter. And that's it, you can enjoy this delicious coffee.
Interesting Facts
- In the Colombian plains it is usually customary to start the day with a Cafe Cerrero well loaded.
- El “Café Cerrero” es nombrado de esta forma en honor a los cerros o montañas.
- The Colombian coffee bean is recognized worldwide as the best mild coffee in the world.
- UNESCO inscribed on the World Heritage List the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia in 2011, due to its cultural importance to humanity.
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