Modern brands provide coffee lovers with an extensive range of raw materials for preparing their favorite drink. So, instant coffee is considered an alternative to ground beans. Many people love this drink for its ease of preparation and original taste. What is this product and how is it produced? Is it possible to enjoy exquisite taste instant coffee by preparing a drink at home?

The process of creating instant coffee is somewhat different from the procedure for making ground coffee, although the initial steps are quite similar.

The production of raw materials for instant coffee involves the following sequence:

• Purification of coffee berries, obtaining coffee beans. 1 centner of raw materials yields 20 kilos of grains.
• Roasting of raw materials and its cooking under pressure of 15 atm for 45 hours. The process continues until all the substances in the composition of the grains evaporate.
• The finished extract is cooled, filtered and evaporated.
• During brewing, most of the aromatic compounds evaporate, but they are collected at the end of the preparation of this type of coffee by artificial means.

The composition and calorie content of the drink

The main component in natural instant coffee is, of course, caffeine. Minerals, vitamins and water are also present here. Coffee does not contain carbohydrates, but it has proteins in the amount of 15 g and fats - 3.5 g.

The calorie content of instant coffee is within 94 kcal for every 100 grams of the product.

What is freeze-dried instant coffee

Freeze-dried coffee is considered a separate type of instant drink. It consists of various types of granules, which most often have the shape of light brown pyramids.

Freeze-dried coffee poured with boiling water instantly dissolves, forming foam on the surface of the drinks.

The main differences between freeze-dried coffee and instant coffee:

1. The aroma of a sublimated drink is as close as possible to natural.
2. The price of sublimated coffee is much higher than that of instant coffee. The reasons lie in the peculiarities of the production process using dry freezing.

The production technology of freeze-dried coffee includes the following steps:

1. Roasting coffee beans, grinding them.
2. The process of cooking grains. It is carried out in a large container with special pipes for removing steam. The procedure lasts about 3 hours.
3. The resulting concentrate is frozen to preserve the aroma and taste. The liquid remaining during the cooking process is extracted by freezing.
4. After freezing the excess liquid, the concentrate is crushed, forming small pyramids. The resulting raw material has no aroma, and therefore, to restore it, they add essential oils obtained during the evaporation process.

Note. Freeze-dried instant coffee is considered elite variety. Cheaper coffee counterparts use artificial flavors.

Top 5 Delicious Instant Coffees - Names

How to choose really high quality instant drink among the huge variety of modern products?

Those who love delicious instant coffee should pay attention to the following list of its types:

• bushido. The famous coffee comes from Japan. Considered one of best brands, according to the reviews of grateful customers. Taste qualities and a diverse range of types of this drink helped him gain many fans around the world.
• Egoist. European coffee produced in factories in Switzerland and Germany. In the process of preparation, Kenyan Arabica is used. It is distinguished by a variety of products, among which you can even find a mixture of instant and ground Arabica.
• Grandos. German coffee, sold mainly in online stores. The composition includes only natural Arabica.
• TUCC. Japanese trademark, whose plantations are located in Brazil. The taste of TUCC coffee is bright, noble, deep, completely devoid of bitterness.
• Carte Noire. A popular American brand coffee, considered the most quality product in your price range. Coffee is made from Arabica coffee blends with 4% caffeine content. Deep rich taste coffee is replaced by a bitter aftertaste.

Benefit and harm to the human body

The effect of coffee products on the body is ambiguous, and has both benefits and harms. Instant coffee is no exception.

This drink has the following positive effects on the human body:

• produces a slight rise in blood pressure;
• improves reaction and attentiveness, raises the tone of the nervous system;
• eliminates headache;
• enhances peristalsis of the intestinal muscles;
• stimulates metabolism.

The harm from instant coffee is brought by the caffeine in its component composition.

Such a drink is contraindicated in hypertensive patients and people with pathologies of the cardiovascular system.

Advice. The last cup of instant coffee should be drunk no later than 3-4 hours before going to bed. You can not drink a drink in parallel with taking sedatives. Coffee should not be given to children.

How to make delicious instant coffee

Instant coffee is a rather controversial product. But it is indisputable that a drink made from such raw materials has a noble taste. To give coffee original taste, you can add additional ingredients to it.

Below are the most popular recipes instant coffee.

Cinnamon

Cooking Ingredients:

• coffee - 2 tsp,
• sugar - 1/3 tsp,
• cinnamon - 1/2 tsp,
• water - 1/2 tbsp.

Preparing instant coffee with cinnamon:

1. Add sugar and cinnamon to a bowl.
2. Pour instant coffee and pour the mixture with boiling water.
3. Brew the drink for 30 - 60 seconds.

By the way. Can be used as ground cinnamon, and Alternative option in the form of crushed pieces of sticks of this spice.

Instant coffee with milk

Ingredients:

• instant coffee - 1 tsp;
• milk - 100 ml;
• ground cinnamon - 1⁄2 tsp;
• sugar - to taste.

Cooking:

1. In a cup, mix coffee with cinnamon and sugar, pour boiling water over the ingredients.
2. Mix the drink and leave for 3-5 minutes.
3. Heat milk and whisk until light air foam.
4. Pour the milk as carefully as possible into the coffee cup. It is necessary to try so that milk foam remains on the surface of the drink.

With cognac

Suitable for this recipe ground coffee(1 tsp per 200 ml of water), and soluble (2 tsp).

1 teaspoon of sugar and 30 ml of cognac are added to the finished coffee.

Advice. In the process of making coffee with cognac, you can experiment with the sequence of adding components. For example, add sugar not to coffee, but directly to cognac, and then mix all the ingredients.

How to make a cappuccino with instant coffee

Great alternative traditional coffee with milk - a cappuccino with a rich milk "cap" as a decoration.

Ingredients:

• instant coffee - 45 g;
• milk - 150 - 170 ml;
• cream - 35 ml;
• cinnamon, sugar - to taste.

Cooking:

1. Heat the milk in a water bath, stirring constantly. The composition must not be boiled.
2. Pour instant coffee into a separate mug.
3. Add sugar to taste and about 15 ml of boiling water.
4. Pour in hot milk.
5. Pour in the cream, stirring constantly.

As soon as the foam begins to rise, stir the coffee with a teaspoon. sprinkle ready drink cocoa or grated chocolate, chopped nuts are acceptable.

Delicious drink with cardamom

Ingredients:

• water - 1 l;
• coffee - 4 - 5 tbsp. l.;
• cardamom - 5 tsp;
• sugar - 2 tsp

Cooking:

1. Boil water, add coffee and cardamom.
2. Boil the mixture for 5 minutes.
3. Pour the drink into a thermos and leave for about half an hour.

Instant coffee is a product no less popular than its ground counterpart. And although these two products differ in the preparation process, pricing policy and the taste of the finished coffee, brown soluble granules there are many fans. There is an opinion that high-quality instant coffee is almost impossible to find. Nevertheless, having made a purchase of products from trusted manufacturers, you can get incomparable pleasure from drinking a cup of a fragrant instant drink.

Instant coffee is made from real coffee beans that have undergone a complex process of processing. First, the grains are roasted, crushed, then treated with boiling water. Depends on further procedures. finished look product - powder, granular or sublimated.

The taste and aroma of any kind of instant product is quite pleasant, although clearly inferior to natural. But if you experiment a little with the ingredients, you can create your own original and delicious recipe favorite drink.

The classic recipe is easy to prepare.

How to cook:

1. Pour 1-2 teaspoons of powder into a cup.
2. Pour hot boiled water but not boiling water. Optimum temperature for brewing ranges from 85-95 ° C. How to get what you want? You can boil water and let it cool for 3-4 minutes, or you can heat up already boiled water and turn off the kettle, almost bringing it to a boil.
3. Let the drink brew for 2-3 minutes. Sprinkle cinnamon on top if desired.

When brewing, consider the size of the cup and taste preferences. Standard portion- 1 teaspoon of the product per 100 ml of water.

You can diversify the recipe if you immediately put sugar (to taste) and spices in a cup of coffee, and only then pour hot water and mix. It is important to add them at this stage, because in this way they will be able to saturate the drink with their aroma and taste and will not float to the top of the cup.

As spices may be suitable:, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg. For chocolate lovers, you can pour a little cocoa powder on the bottom of the cup or pour chocolate syrup.

Of course, all spices and spices are not for everyone, but they will help make instant coffee even more tasty and invigorating.

Cooking with milk and cinnamon

The brewing technology is almost completely similar to the previous recipe.

You will need:

• 1-2 tsp soluble product;
• sugar to taste;
• 30-50 ml of milk (preferably with a fat content above 3%);
• pinch of cinnamon, optional
• 150-170 ml of water.

How to cook:

1. Fall asleep instant product and sugar in a cup.
2. Fill three-quarters with hot water.
3. Leave to infuse for 2-3 minutes. In the meantime, warm up the milk a little. When warm, it has a special softness and aroma, which only improves taste characteristics instant coffee. Beforehand, you can beat the milk in a way convenient for you.
4. Then pour it into a bowl and stir. Sprinkle with cinnamon on top.

Milk can be replaced with cream. For lovers of unusual flavor combinations you can use coconut, so the taste will turn out even more delicate.

Any instant drink can be used. But, as a rule, when choosing which will be close to you, you will have to try more than one variety.

Cooking with ice

Significantly inferior in usefulness and taste to natural. But, nevertheless, from it you can make one of famous recipes cold coffee.

You will need:

• 5 tsp soluble powder;
• 5 tsp Sahara;
• a pinch of vanillin;
• 250 ml of water;
• 250 ml milk.

How to cook:

1. Pour hot water over coffee powder and sugar, mix. Let cool.
2. Add a pinch of vanilla, pour the drink into an ice mold. To freeze.
3. Add coffee ice to cold milk and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes so that the ice melts a little and the ingredients mix.

The second way is simpler:

1. Brew strong concentrated coffee.
2. AT empty glass put a few ice cubes and carefully, slowly, pour the prepared coffee on them.

In order for the taste of the drink not to be spoiled by excess water from ice, it should be drunk immediately, preferably through a straw. This type of treat is very refreshing in the summer.

Cappuccino with ice

For this recipe you will need a blender.

Ingredients:

• 200 ml of milk;
• 1-2 tsp coffee powder;
• 1 tbsp chocolate syrup;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• 2-3 ice cubes;
• sugar to taste.

How to cook:

1. Mix milk in a blender chocolate syrup, instant coffee and ice. Beat until smooth.
2. Pour in sugar.
3. Pour into glasses, garnish with cinnamon if desired. Drink immediately.

For connoisseurs of something unusual, you can add maple syrup or caramel sauce. You can decorate the treat with chocolate dragees or shavings, a few sprigs of mint, or sprinkle with syrup.

Recipe with ginger

With the addition of ginger, instant coffee will turn out delicious with a characteristic spicy flavor and aroma.

How to cook:

1. Grate a piece of ginger. For 1 cup you will need 1 teaspoon of grated ginger.
2. Pour the spice with a glass of boiling water and let it brew for 5-7 minutes.
3. Pour coffee powder into an empty cup and pour over ginger infusion.

Especially good in autumn and winter periods. It will warm and invigorate. Improve taste qualities and properties will help honey, pepper or lemon juice.

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It would seem that coffee has long and firmly entered our lives. Today, very few think of their morning without a cup of this invigorating and fragrant drink. But only a select few know about its correct brewing. Say no to coffee machines and toss that brightly colored "instant" can in the trash. Today we will teach you how to brew coffee correctly, and, therefore, to get maximum pleasure from its taste.

Where did he come from?

Of course, this drink came to us from the Arab world. Coffee - from the Arabic "kahwa". homeland of grains coffee tree, rich in aromatic substances and alkaloids, mainly caffeine - South Arabia(Yemen) and Ethiopia. The best varieties of coffee are still grown there - mocha (from the distorted Mecca) and Arabica. Wild forests of the coffee tree are common in Africa, in Madagascar.

However, the main suppliers of coffee to the world market today are countries South America(Brazil and Colombia give 60% of coffee to the world market), where it was brought by greedy Europeans. In terms of their biochemical parameters, these varieties are worse than real African and Arabic grains. The best coffee from Latin America now supplies Costa Rica, in second place in terms of quality - Colombian, and the most massive, medium or even worse quality - Brazilian.

How to brew coffee?

Properly prepared coffee should be thick, strong and aromatic. He is able to drive away sleep, cheer up. To begin with, the Turk needs to be slightly warmed up - for this, rinse it with boiling water. Then pour in the coffee. Usual rate- 2 teaspoons per 100 - 150 ml of water. Now pour boiling water over the coffee, and try not to have any powder on the surface of the water. And do not forget - clean water should be used to make coffee.

Now heat the water, but not too fast. Bring the drink to a boil, but do not boil. As soon as the foam rises to the edge of the dish, immediately remove the drink from the heat. Wait a little for the thick to settle, and serve coffee to the table. You can speed up the settling process if you drop a few drops of cold and necessarily boiled water on top.

If you don't want to bother with pre-boiling the water, you can slightly modify the described cooking process. Pour cold water into the coffee pot, bring to a boil. After that, remove from heat, quickly add coffee, stirring until thick foam. When it settles, put the Turk back on low heat and bring it to the moment when the foam "breathes". This can be repeated 3-4 times, resulting in coffee foam accumulates a lot of aromatic and flavoring substances.

In Brazil, a slightly different order is adopted. First, ground coffee is poured into the bottom of the Turks, then poured with boiling water, mixed and filtered into a vessel previously scalded with boiling water. There is enough unusual options cooking. For example, a pound (0.45 kg) of medium-ground coffee is dipped into a quart (0.95 L) cold water for a day. The extract is then filtered. To prepare a coffee drink, the cold extract must be mixed with cold water.

Try the same oriental way. This will require a small conical saucepan with long handle called cezve. This method requires finely ground coffee. Put sugar and coffee in the cezve, pour water and heat slowly over low heat. As soon as the foam rises, immediately remove the cezve from the heat, making sure that a layer of foam remains on the surface of the coffee.

Coffee should languish for some time, inside the cezve, covered with foam, like a lid. Repeat the heating process 2-3 times. The second option is also possible. Put sugar in the cezve, pour cold water and bring to a boil. Then remove the cezve with boiled water from the heat and pour coffee into it, stirring quickly with a spoon. Gotta get up thick foam. After the foam settles slightly, put the vessel back on low heat. After several heatings, the drink will be ready.

Coffee - flavored drink, which can sometimes work wonders with our body - wake up from sleep, cheer up or even inspire to work. Everyone at least once faced with insane fatigue, and delicious food came to the rescue, invigorating coffee. The main ingredient in coffee is caffeine. In addition to caffeine, coffee contains nicotinic acid, tannin, theobromine, glucoside, and many others. The amount of various substances in coffee can vary from 800 to 1000 components. The composition of coffee depends directly on where they were grown. coffee beans, and what degree of roasting was produced.

Apart from grain coffee there is also soluble, it, as is customary, is more popular in our latitudes because of the ease of brewing. Instant coffee is most often produced from the Robusta variety, since this variety has resistance and endurance to climatic conditions, respectively, it is cheaper than, for example, Arabica. There are several types of instant coffee:

• - powder;
• - sublimated;
• - granulated.

These types of coffee differ in the technology of preparation and processing of beans before they are converted into the product that we are used to seeing on store shelves.

How to make delicious coffee

Just making coffee is a simple matter, but how to make this invigorating drink richer and more delicious? The FoodBest team has prepared for you some tips that will help you get an unforgettable pleasure from a cup of coffee.

• Butter will help lovers of soft coffee. Some may consider coffee and oil to be incompatible, but this is not the case. To prepare such an “oily” coffee, you will need 150 ml of freshly brewed natural coffee, half a teaspoon of natural butter and sugar. Blend all the ingredients in a blender until the consistency is smooth. Such coffee will not only invigorate after waking up, but also energize the body for the whole day. But this cooking option has its contraindications. Do not get carried away with it if you have problems with gastrointestinal tract or a cookie.
• To make the espresso richer and have a pleasant caramel flavor, ground coffee should be roasted with the addition of brown sugar at the rate of half one teaspoon per serving of coffee. After that, coffee is brewed in a Turk.
• Standard medium-strength coffee is prepared at the rate of one to one and a half teaspoons for every 180 ml of water. By correctly calculating the dose of coffee, you can prepare exactly the drink that will suit your taste.
• ground ginger, vanilla essence, cinnamon or nutmeg will make the coffee spicy. For one serving, add one pinch of any spice when brewing coffee in a Turk. This advice also applies to instant coffee, main secret that spices should be added not to water, but to still dry coffee.
• For chocolate lovers, we recommend mixing cocoa powder with ground coffee before brewing. Such coffee will instantly acquire chocolate flavor and delight with its unforgettable scent.

• If you prefer to drink coffee with milk, then choose the whole type of milk, as it predominates creamy taste, Unlike skimmed milk. Milk should be poured first, and then hot water, in the case of instant coffee and freshly brewed natural coffe, in the case of grain or ground. Milk added to a cup after boiling water will instantly lose its taste.
• If you have instant coffee, sugar and milk on hand, you can make coffee with real delicious crema. To do this, grind the ingredients into a thick slurry and pour boiling water.
• In order to coffee grounds did not spoil the process of drinking coffee, before preparing it in a Turk, two to three teaspoons of cold water should be added to the bottom of the Turk. This will help the sediment stay at the bottom and not get into your cup.

Today, instant coffee can be found on the kitchen shelf for many, but not everyone asks the question: “how to brew instant coffee?”. Everything is quite simple.

Instant coffee preparation

Since the taste of artificial flavors contained in instant coffee is enhanced by exposure to boiling water, instant coffee begins to smell like chemicals (not coffee) and acquires a cloying taste. As you understand, it is better not to brew instant coffee with boiling water. Powder manufacturers say the same thing: instant coffee should be brewed with hot water at about 80-90 ° C.

Instant coffee lovers have even come up with their own cooking recipe, which allows you to muffle the artificial flavor as much as possible and reveal coffee aroma. The cooking method consists of three steps:

1. pour into a cup required amount soluble powder, usually 1-2 teaspoons, and sugar to taste.
2. Pour the coffee powder with sugar with one tablespoon of hot water and rub the resulting mixture in a cup so that all the ingredients are completely dissolved. Only after that you can add the remaining hot water, remember - not boiling water!
3. If you like to drink coffee with milk, you also need to warm it up: hot milk has a special mild aroma, which at the same time improves the taste of instant coffee.

A note about instant coffee

Instant coffee is characterized large quantity shortcomings, which, unfortunately, outweigh its advantages. This drink characterized by high acidity. In this regard, it is not advisable to drink coffee on an empty stomach for people who suffer from stomach diseases, especially if it is a soluble powder. Do not drink instant coffee for those who suffer from cardiovascular diseases.

It should also be noted that, contrary to the prevailing opinion about the absence of harm, instant coffee without caffeine, it negatively affects health. This product provokes the formation and deposition of kidney stones. Among physicians, there is also an assumption that instant decaffeinated coffee can have a carcinogenic effect on the body.

Think a few times before taking instant coffee off the shelf, can natural ground coffee still be better?