Jakarta – For coffee fans, enjoying a cup of original coffee really feels delicious. But the sensation of pleasure coffee It will be richer if you add various local ingredients.
The aroma and taste of coffee prepared with various additional ingredients has its own taste sensation. If you like sweet, sweet coffee, you can try adding palm sugar, but if you like aromatic coffee, add a little Indonesian spices.
Getting creative with coffee really feels fun. Here are some local ingredients that can make coffee taste better.
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1. Salt
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It sounds unique, but in fact salt is proven to make your coffee more delicious. Salt, which is predominantly salty, plays a role in reducing the effect of the bitter taste in coffee.
There is no official recommended amount for adding salt to coffee. But try to add salt little by little to taste coffee feels right. This salt also makes cold coffee more delicious.
Also read: Apart from sugar, here are 10 ingredients that can make delicious sweet coffee
2. Coconut milk
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Apart from milk, coconut milk can also be added to coffee to make a glass of cappuccino or cafe latte. Coconut milk added to coffee must have a consistency similar to milk. Not too thick and not too runny either. You can use instant coconut milk that has been melted again with water.
Coffee This coconut milk mixture has a creamy taste with a savory tinge. Usually the baristas add a little vanilla extract to make the aroma and taste more delicious.
Coffee with coconut milk is often used as an alternative for coffee lovers who are allergic to dairy products or can also be an option for vegetarians.
3. Palm sugar
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For those who can’t drink strong coffee, they usually add sugar to their coffee. But so that the sweet taste is more authentic, you can choose local sugar such as palm sugar.
Flavor coffee it will be much more delicious because apart from being sweet, palm sugar also has a distinctive aroma that makes the coffee taste delicious. Even though it is sweet and delicious, don’t add too much palm sugar because it will lose the taste of the coffee.
Now many coffee shops mix palm sugar into their mixture. Coffee mixed with milk and palm sugar has proven to be popular with young people.
4. Dried herbs
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Various spices that are usually used as mixtures for cooking or herbal medicine have also been proven to make delicious coffee mixtures, you know. Call it dry spices such as cinnamon, cardamom or cloves.
Apart from being fragrant and having a distinctive taste, spices also contribute benefits to the body. For example, cardamom functions to neutralize the effects of caffeine in coffee. Or cinnamon which can make coffee taste sweeter even without added sugar.
The fragrant aroma of coffee with spices also invites a good mood. Add these spices to taste when brewing coffee. Coffee with spices is best enjoyed warm.
Also read: To improve your mood, add these 6 ingredients to your morning coffee
5. Ginger
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Coffee mixed with ginger is no longer strange. In Indonesia, ginger coffee is enjoyed traditionally. Apart from being fragrant, ginger also has a warming effect on the body.
To make ginger coffee, you can use thinly sliced fresh ginger or roasted ginger. The taste will be more delicious and fresh when coffee is mixed with roasted ginger.
There are so many fans of ginger coffee, currently many manufacturers are making instant ginger coffee. The concoction is of course a mixture of coffee, ginger and a little sugar.
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