South Indian · 4 glasses
South Indian Filter Coffee
Decoction, boiling milk, and pouring it back and forth until it froths. No shortcuts exist.
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp coarse filter coffee powder
- 200ml boiling water
- 400ml full fat milk
- Sugar to taste
Method
- Pack the coffee into the filter's upper chamber and press it down with the disc — firmly, but not so hard the water cannot pass.
- Pour in boiling water, cover, and leave it. The decoction takes 15 minutes and cannot be hurried.
- Boil the milk separately. It must be properly boiling, not warm.
- One part decoction to three parts milk, sugar in.
- Now pour it between the tumbler and the dabara from a height, back and forth, six or seven times. That is what makes the froth and cools it to drinking temperature.