Hello everyone! As many of you already know that Turkish coffee is one of the most important and
traditional drinks in Turkey so that is why in today's video I would love to share
everything about it from how to make it easily at home and the proper tools some of its history
and also how can people read your fortune from the cup. So if you want to learn everything about
this exotic and unique drink then we invite you to watch this video. Now welcome to Bery
Istanbul Tips's kitchen and I'm gonna show you how to easily make a perfect Turkish coffee,
a Mexican version so please if you're Turkish and you're watching this video try to give me some
points in comments below from 1 to 10. How many points you give me. So first of all I'm gonna tell
you what kind of tools you need to have at home so you can make this Turkish coffee. So let's start
with the most important thing. You're going to need this kind of cezve and this is very important
in order to make a good Turkish coffee. You can find it in different styles in different sizes.
For example in this one you can make two up to three Turkish coffee and also we're gonna need
a teaspoon. This will be to measure and remember that for the cezve we can find
many types. Especially in touristic areas you're gonna find these ones which are made of copper
and these ones might have some some wood to protect you from the heat but i personally prefer
like this ones. These are the ones that we mostly use at home because these are more
modern and they fit with our kitchen and so on. So i prefer these ones more but i just wanted
to show you this one as well and also we're gonna need one little glass to put some water
because you're gonna need it. In case that you like sugar in your coffee then you can use
these ones or just normal sugar and of course our Turkish coffee and once I open it,
i just love that smell. I mean, I'm a coffee lover but this one also smells so fresh. So don't
forget this is very important that the fresher the Turkish coffee is, the better it will taste. So you
need a good quality and fresh Turkish coffee. Also we cannot miss our Turkish coffee cup. In this
case i have this one and i have this one, this is so cute and i will tell you where i got these ones
because probably some of you might ask me in a little bit i will share this information and there
are also many types of cups. Also you can find from the most simple ones with different designs
and since in this house we are a multicultural family Mexi-Turkish family, this last time
when we went to Mexico, I found this little cup which is the perfect size as well for Turkish
coffee and i say, why not? Let's make this one as a Turkish coffee cup and also we can have
Mexico in our Turkish coffee and I just put it here. I just wanted to show you this but for today,
I'm gonna use this one. Also don't forget that in Turkey when we're drinking Turkish coffee
at the same time, we are also eating some lokum or Turkish delight or as well some little chocolates.
This time, I will be eating it with some delicious lokum and this one is brand new
I will also share some information about it and look how nice the package is.
Finally let's go to the beautiful part of how to prepare a Turkish coffee by a Mexican
so please don't judge me okay I'm still learning and I love it.
Okay first of all, we need to put into the cezve or this pot, we need to put
per every little cup that we are going to serve, we're going to use for this
the teaspoon okay and we're going to put two per cup. So we're going to put it like that, one,
two and since also my husband we will drink i will put four. Three and then four. Okay,
after that if you like it with sugar then we are going to use the sugar. In our case, we like it
just a bit of sugar. So I'm going use one and two that's one per cup. Also
here in Turkey when you're at a restaurant and you want some Turkish coffee they will ask you with
how much sugar do you want your coffee with. So in this case you can ask "şekersiz" which means
without sugar. "Az şeker" that means with a little bit of sugar. "orta" medium sugar or "şekerli"
that means we with more sugar. So you can use any of these three to tell waiter or your waitress how
you would love to drink your coffee. In our case we are drinking our coffee "az şekerli" Secondly
we are going to pour some water but this is very important, so you don't have to pour cold or warm
water. You're going to use it like middle heat, like just a bit warm. Just to mix it up. Now here
i previously heated just a bit my water and we're going to put here into this pot just the size of
a cup. So in this case i'm gonna be making two coffees, so i will put one and the second one.
two, okay and after this you're going to mix well.
This is the only time that you're going to mix very well your coffee because once you
put it into the stove then you cannot mix it anymore. Well this is a little trick
or tip that my mother-in-law gave me, she is Turkish of course, so she told me this.
The perfect temperature of how you should make your Turkish coffee should be in middle heat,
Don't put it all the way up or all the way down, just put it in the middle and that will be
perfect. We are not going to bring it to a boil, so this is why Turkish coffee it's so
perfect because we do not boil it, we just leave it until it gets a bit warm and also one little
tip that my mother-in-law gave me because one special characteristic of Turkish coffee is that
when you're serving it it has foam on top so we do not want that foam to disappear
and she told me that as soon as it starts getting warm we are going to take with our spoon
just a little bit of that foam and put it into our cup. That way it will become foamy.
Also probably you have seen in many of the touristic areas that they are making the Turkish
coffee either in sand or charcoal. Of course here we don't have that, so we're making it in the
stove but that is the traditional way of making it in either in sand or charcoal. Now here we have
a bit of that foam so we are going to pour it into our cup, just a bit, we will leave it there.
Now that I feel that it started to boil just a bit, I'm going transfer it just half
of it, I will pour it. Just a bit into my cup, after that, I will wait
and I will put just a bit more. So we are going to put it in two parts
and before it boils again. Now it's ready, we finish pouring it.
Do it slowly slowly so you will not lose that foam and here it is.
This is perfection, this is so good. Now the second step will be putting the Turkish
delight because without a delight or a little chocolate then it's not better.
I will choose one of this one
and two. So here is our Turkish coffee made by Mexican hands.
If you really want to try the most delicious Turkish flavors and you're somebody who is
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So Turkish coffee is one of the most important drinks in Turkish culture and as you can see,
it's quite easy making Turkish coffee. I would love to tell you a little bit of history of this
delicious drink and this one dates back to the 16th century during the reign of Sultan
Suleiman the Magnificent that of course many of you already know because also there is a famous
a Turkish series about him and there are two versions of how Turkish coffee was introduced
into the Ottoman Empire but none of them have been proven yet. So I will tell you about both of them
and the first one is that during the 16th century there was one Ottoman ruler in Yemen and he was
the one who discovered about this Turkish coffee how it was made in that region. So after that,
he introduced the Turkish coffee into the Ottoman Empire. The second one is also during the reign of
Sultan Suleiman and it was about two syrian traders who were coming to Turkey and they
were the ones who spread this drink to Turkey and then also to other countries in the nearby areas.
So for example, in Turkish families when there is an engagement ceremony usually the girl
tends to prepare one Turkish coffee but something interesting is going on here is that they also put
a lot of salt and maybe some spices and she's gonna give that coffee to the to the groom or
to the to the boy. So he will try to drink it all and it is said that if he can drink that coffee
then he will be ready to marry her because he will be able to handle everything going on
in the marriage. So as I said this is not just a drink that Turkish people like to consume,
this also represents part of their culture and it is a big part of their important celebrations.
There is also a saying that "a memory of a cup of Turkish coffee lasts
for 40 years" So this is how important it is for them.
My Turkish coffee it's kind of getting a bit cold so i really want to take a zip
and really i mean Turkish coffee, it's something that even though you're not a coffee lover
when you come to Turkey, this is something that you must try because you will not be able to try
another coffee like this one and the texture especially when you finish it it has a muddy
taste so you will be able to to taste that like sand, like mud and you don't have to drink that.
Also in Turkey there is something quite interesting going on
and after we finish drinking our Turkish coffee many people or actually most people,
I mean there are many people who believe in this or maybe it's part of their customs already.
They can tell your future, they can guess your future from this mud, from these sandy,
from the Turkish coffee leftovers and what are they going to do is that they're going to put here
the little plate and then they're going turn it, you're going to leave it for a few minutes maybe two
to three minutes here so everything comes down and apparently from the shapes and the drawings from
that it's leftover in the cup some people they can read the future for you. This thing is very
famous here that also they have some apps where people, Turkish people they can just take a photo
from the inside part of the cup and they just send it and within two to three hours they
can receive their future. So this was our little introduction about Turkish coffee and how
you can easily make it at home. If you want to keep receiving more tips and recommendations
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