How to make a perfect italian coffee at home and explanation about coffees you can find at an italian bar
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Easy steps to achieve the best authentic Italian coffee with Moka pot at home
Author: Ilaria's Perfect Recipes
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- you need to have the best italian Moka pot that is the distinctive eight-side shaped Bialetti Moka that allows to diffuse heat perfectly to enhance the aroma of your coffee.
- good finely ground coffee blend for Moka pot. The best ever industrial coffee blend is Lavazza Qualità Rossa (red) (or at least Illy or Pellini).
- good quality water, bottled is better so you're sure to avoid hard water that is not suitable for italian coffee.
Instructions
- Take the boiler and fill it up with water until the water level is right below the little safety valve.
- Insert the filter into the boiler.
Now you have to choose between 2 thought patterns (my family always use the second option):
- fill it up with finely ground coffee creating a little mountain on it (1/3 the height of the filter), do not press it, just leave it that way.
OR
- fill it up with finely-ground coffee, press it with the back of a teaspoon and with a toothpick make 5 holes in the pressed coffee.
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- Screw the upper part of the Moka pot tightly onto the base, put it on a kitchen burner on a low heat to allow the water to rise slowly between the coffee powder, therefore releasing better its aroma.
- When you hear the characteristic gurgling noise, open and keep the lid of the Moka pot up to prevent that the condensed vapor goes back to the ground coffee and therefore changes its flavor.
- When the hazel brown foam appears and a second before the coffee comes out completely, take the Moka pot away from the burner.
- Before pouring coffee to espresso cups, take a teaspoon and stir a little bit (to equalize the different coffee layers).
Notes
Mantaining the Moka pot
Another ESSENTIAL step to achieve a good italian coffee is to wash (with your hands) every part of the Moka pot just with warm running water, DO NOT use soap or something different from water. Even if the inner part of your Moka pot would naturally blacken due to the oily coffee residue, never ever use soap after the first time (when the pot is brand new).
Let every parts dry (upside down) before reassembling the Moka pot.
You just have to change the gasket when it's consumed. Then your Moka pot would last a life time! And the more you use it the more the coffee is good!
Where to store your coffee
Tightly close the coffee package or put the ground coffee in an airtight container. Keep the coffee powder away from the sunlight, for example in a kitchen cabinet.
Some people suggest to store it in the refrigerator but we couldn't see any difference, maybe because our house is not usually hot.
Another ESSENTIAL step to achieve a good italian coffee is to wash (with your hands) every part of the Moka pot just with warm running water, DO NOT use soap or something different from water. Even if the inner part of your Moka pot would naturally blacken due to the oily coffee residue, never ever use soap after the first time (when the pot is brand new).
Let every parts dry (upside down) before reassembling the Moka pot.
You just have to change the gasket when it's consumed. Then your Moka pot would last a life time! And the more you use it the more the coffee is good!
Where to store your coffee
Tightly close the coffee package or put the ground coffee in an airtight container. Keep the coffee powder away from the sunlight, for example in a kitchen cabinet.
Some people suggest to store it in the refrigerator but we couldn't see any difference, maybe because our house is not usually hot.
Recipe by Ilaria's Perfect Recipes at https://www.ilariasperfectrecipes.com/how-to-make-perfect-italian-coffee-moka-explanation-bar/