hello and welcome to lessons from the road come see us at lessons in the road calm today we're going to talk to you about how to make turkish coffee now turkish coffee is an interesting thing because the Turks claim its Turkish the Greeks claim it's Greek the Israelis claim of tea brew the Arabs say there are there a lot of different cultures there so they all have different claims but the coffee that I'm going to use is Brazilian you can read the labels as pure Brazilian ground coffee and if you can read this stuff up here in Arabic then you don't really need to watch this lesson because you already know how to do this so what you do is you start with these ingredients you need coffee of course and you don't have to buy stuff like this at an ethnic store you can just go to your regular supermarket and get it ground for Turkish coffee as you can read this label is probably instructions on this I can't read this label I don't know what it says so I can make you know various guttural sounds okay i think that that's what it means but let's call it the coffee in hebrew they call this cafe two key so you'll need the coffee so you can get it finely ground at the supermarket just to your favorite kind of coffee you need sugar I don't see how you can possibly do this without a lessons on the road mug available of course it lessons in the road calm and you need this this is a coffee cooker there's a million different words threaten different languages the Hebrews called a few John this one happens to be Turkish and there's two ways to get a hold of one of these things the first thing is you can just go into a store and buy it an ethnic store a middle eastern market you could probably find them online at a million places but the best way to get it is to simply walk into an Arabs house and admire it and they'll feel compelled to give it to you and that's the beautiful thing about the culture so that's how I got this one actually I walked into my dad's house and I said oh what a beautiful coffee cooker and next thing you know he gave it so I'm having coffee for one so I I like one good heaping teaspoon and then a little more so let's call it good to good teaspoons that's what it looks like inside now so I wouldn't be doing endless videos of boiling water that can be kind of annoying to watch I pre boil the water I'm probably breaking a million customs doing this but I pre boiled the water I'll turn on my stove and you ultimately if you can can have a gas burner for the flame there are many views are on cooking this coffee and because we're talking about a Middle Eastern recipe no two views are alike you have to have sugar this stuff is very very bitter so I like for about 2 teaspoons of coffee about 2 teaspoons of sugar in the coffee and then this last ingredient which is optional the Hebrews call it hell believe it or not and I had coffee without this definite definitely as hell if you don't have this this is cardamom seeds so I take them i crush them and generally what I see when I order a cup of this stuff overseas as I see three seeds per serving so I put three here into mine now the Greeks well they'll tell you not to ever boil coffee they'll say heat it warm it don't boil it of course they're usually saying this in Greece so I have no idea what it is they're really saying for all I could be they could be wondering mr. blocking or something the heat Israelis believe that you should boil coffee several times I've heard three times I've heard seven times so what I'm going to do is I'm going to boil this coffee and I'm going to bring it to a boil as you can see it's now bubbling up I did cheat I did start with pre boiled water something that would probably get me a lot of trouble and I take it off the flame so now it's off the flame it's settling down I put it back on and it's boiling up again I take it off that's two that's three you can see it's really really rising this is 4 and this is 5 each time it's just boiling up just enough for me to want to take off 6 I know it's tedious tedious process but each successive oil is much easier to bring it to because their coffee so hot and now the coffee is cooked the theory behind all this boiling andrey boiling is that you unlock your bitterness and that you mix the ingredients now the same guy who gave me this gave me these teeny tiny teeny tiny little cups to drink this stuff out of the theory being this stuff is so strong you probably don't want a lot of it however since this is being brought to you by lessons from the road we're going to use our own lessons on the road mug and you pour it there's a lot of precipitate at the bottom so you don't necessarily want that you don't want to necessarily chew your coffee as you can see the poor is getting thicker and thicker and thicker there's more grains of it and you I leave some / of course in the fiend John because that stuff has a lot of precipitate its chewy the Moroccans actually take it and they chew it the Israelis try to filter it that way and I've seen you Gyptian to actually run it through a filter so now there's your coffee you have your three cardamom seeds in there and you can sit and let it settle a bit what I've seen people do is actually take the coffee and put something that looked like a pie plate over it to actually let it take a time and settle down and get all of the all of the stuff all of the ground coffee to settle and when you drink this you want to sip it very very slowly you want to really take your time with it because you want to avoid this mouthful of silty coffee enjoy and come see us at lessons on the road