Coffee frappe: what is it and how to cook?

In recent years, cold coffee of Greek origin is becoming popular in Russia. Not everyone is familiar with the history of the frappe and its properties.

Home conditions and the availability of various recipes allow any housewife to make a great coffee drink.

Frappe is an indispensable cold coffee with a cap of lush milk foam. Crushed ice is always added to the cocktail. This kind of cool drink appeared in 1957. The international trade exhibition was held in Thessaloniki - in the city, which is located on the Greek coast of the Aegean Sea. Dimitrios Vakondias unexpectedly became the inventor of a new type of coffee.

He is not a professional coffee maker, but he helped to present Nestlé's instant products at the fair: a children's cocktail with cocoa. Vakdias had a shaker with him for whipping chocolate drink with milk.

When he wanted to drink coffee, there was no boiling water anywhere. A savvy man had to take cold water. In a shaker, he stirred up instant coffee for a long time, mixed with ice and sugar. This happened before the appearance of thick, persistent foam.

Due to a successful experiment, a new recipe for a unique drink has been obtained. Such a discovery did not go unnoticed. The Greeks liked the cocktail very much. Subsequently, it quickly spread to Europe. Especially drink preference residents of southern European countries.

The popularity of cold coffee drink is increasing every year. In recent years, it is in great demand in Russian coffee shops and restaurants. The French word "frappe" literally translates as "beat", "bash", which can mean the mandatory content of crushed ice in a drink. A distinctive feature of the frappe is that crushed ice is added to it.

Frappe - caffeine-containing liquid, so drinking more than two glasses of this drink per day is undesirable. A glass of frappe can contain 60-120 mg of caffeine, so it has invigorating properties. The body gets a lot of energy.

The invigorating cocktail is in demand in restaurants. On hot days, they drink it as a coolant. Frappe is valuable because it is characterized by a refreshing property. In the scorching heat, the use of this wonderful cocktail is irreplaceable.

Frappe has a rich coffee taste, sometimes you can feel a nutty flavor. He has no classic coffee astringency. The components responsible for the particular sourness, it is present.

The calorie content of the drink depends on the ingredients that are added to the mixture. One portion of the usual classic cocktail contains 2 calories. Any addition of components increases calories, and ultimately it can reach 20-22 kcal.

Beating coffee liquid and milk gives a high strong lush foam, thanks to which the ingredients added to give beauty do not settle. You can decorate a cocktail with various components.

Coffee, sugar, milk, water and ice will be needed to make a common traditional version of frappe.

In the tank, you need to mix the instant coffee (5 g) with sugar (5 g) thoroughly, then add boiled, cold water (100 ml), beat vigorously until a stable foam is obtained. Then the beige composition is poured into a glass, and then very carefully, so as not to spoil the foam, cool milk (100 ml) is poured in a thin stream. At the final stage, crushed pieces of ice (200 g) are added.

It is very simple to make a Greek frappe: intensely whipped liquor and cool milk (300 ml) with coffee (50 g), a crumb of ice is added (8 cubes). Any sweetener poured as desired. Per two persons consumes only one spoon of sugar.In a shaker, you must pour instant coffee with sugar, pour cool milk, whisk vigorously. Then you need to put ice in a glass, carefully pour the prepared beverage.

This coffee contributes to an excellent thirst quencher. Residents of Cyprus and Greece prefer to constantly enjoy a great cocktail. Some add to the resulting mass 5 g of cinnamon, 2 g of hot pepper, a little vanilla syrup and a tablespoon of brandy. The invigorating alcoholic cocktail with tart taste turns out. Sometimes soy milk is used.

The available ingredients enable anyone to make a wonderful iced coffee drink at home. At home, you can resort to the use of a mixer, shaker or blender with the appropriate nozzle.

In the absence of kitchen appliances, you need to shake the ingredients in containers with a tightly closed lid or stir vigorously for a long time.

Instant and brewed coffee is equally suitable for a drink. Espresso made in the coffee machine, coffee - in the Turk. A prerequisite - you need to strain and cool the liquid.

It is instant coffee that will help in the home to create a beautiful thick foam. It is necessary to prepare in advance the ice cubes.

There is the easiest recipe. It is necessary to intensively beat the water (60 ml) with one and a half teaspoons of instant coffee until elastic foam appears. After that, cool milk should be poured into a glass with the prepared mixture and ice. Some like a coffee drink with sugar.

Additionally, a variety of components are added: nut syrup, spicy plants, berry syrup, ice cream. Spicy plants give a soft taste to the coffee drink. Good clove, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger.

Berries, fruit slices, chocolate and coconut chips - decorating cocktails. Cherry, orange, strawberry, raspberry, pomegranate, pineapple juices and even alcoholic beverages are added to it. Creme brulee, honey, sherbet, panakota are not bad for him as additional ingredients.

An important condition is the preparation of coffee right before use. You can serve it in a special cocktail glass or in a tall glass for latte with finely crushed ice. Ceramic mugs are also used.

If berry pulp is added to coffee, then take a wide straw. Then the drink through the tube will pass freely.

You can make frappe with ice cream. To do this, prepare 50 g of ice cream, 30 ml of espresso, a quarter of a teaspoon of instant coffee or cocoa powder. Beat the ingredients in a blender until smooth, then add a little cinnamon and five pieces of edible ice. The straw is well suited for the use of this delicious cocktail.

Liquor is also suitable as an ingredient. Milk (80 ml), liqueur (80 ml), one tablespoon of instant coffee are thoroughly whipped, poured into glasses with crushed ice (200 g), chocolate sauce is added to taste. A homemade frappe will cost five times less than a coffee shop.

And it's easy to cook. In modern times there are many different recipes. Any housewife can choose the appropriate recipe for this wonderful drink and the most convenient way to make it. Some instead of coffee use cocoa powder.

Frappuccino is one of the most original coffee drinks. Frappe in conjunction with cappuccino every year gains world fame, is rapidly spreading around the globe.This drink is very much appreciated by amateurs and coffee connoisseurs.

Invented frappuccino coffee houses in Massachusetts. A good find was the combination of espresso with ice cream. Crushed ice in the drink has become an indispensable ingredient. The combination of espresso and ice cream turned out to be a good find. Crushed ice in the drink has become an indispensable ingredient.

To make frappuccino, you will need to whip up the ice (200g) and mix a mixture of freshly brewed coffee (100 ml) and milk (100 ml), one spoonful of sugar, before grinding. Poured into a glass of drink is decorated with whipped cream, syrup. Served with a straw.

In addition to the classic, there are many options frappuccino. For example, the light option does not provide for adding sugar at all, while taking milk of very low fat content. The vegetarian option involves the use of soy milk, mocha - adding chocolate syrup.

There is even an interesting option without using coffee: the milk is intensively whipped until a stable foam is obtained.

You need to make strawberry frappe from mineral water (20 ml), strawberry syrup (20 ml), lemon syrup (10 ml), ice cream (80 g), milk (30 ml). Ice cream, milk, lemon and strawberry syrup are intensively whipped, poured the contents into a glass, and gently slowly trickle into pouring cold mineral water.

For berry frappe with mint any fruit, both fresh and frozen, will do. It is better to take raspberries or strawberries in the amount of 100 g, add to the blender, where pre-place 250 ml of cool freshly brewed coffee, 100 ml of cool milk and sugar (10 g). Still need to add a few mint leaves. Then intensively whip until a beautiful thick foam.

Put crushed ice in a glass, gently pour a cocktail, decorate with a mint leaf. For this, the frappe needs not a simple straw, but a thick tubule, because the berry pulp must pass through it without hindrance. Mint gives the cocktail a special aroma, from which the coffee becomes even more refreshing. Preparation of a coffee drink will take 10 minutes.

An unusual taste has pomegranate coffee frappe. To make it, you need to shake up a cold espresso coffee, pomegranate juice (20 ml) or syrup, lime juice (30 ml), one ball of sorbet, preferably lemon juice. You can decorate with lemon balm leaf and a piece of lime.

Caramel drink is prepared as follows: blender beaten in advance brewed and cooled coffee, milk (300 ml) with small pieces of ice should be diluted with caramel syrup (20 ml). You can use ready-made caramel sauce, purchased in the store. The syrup is also prepared on its own from sugar, vanilla and water. It is advisable to squeeze out whipped cream (50 ml) from a can.

The cooking will take 20 minutes of vanilla cold coffee.

Decorated with whipped cream. Adherents can use water instead of milk. Vanilla sugar (10 g) is added to 250 ml of brewed and cooled coffee, then 250 ml of cool milk, a little vanilla essence (4 drops) should be poured. Beat until strong foam is obtained.

Crush pieces of ice (8 cubes), arrange in glasses, pour cooked gorgeous vanilla drink.

Chocolate-almond coffee can be made in 20 minutes. Any nut syrup will suit: with a taste of almonds, cashews, walnuts, hazelnuts.

You need to take 200 ml of chilled brewed coffee, add sugar (3 g), beat with ice milk (200 ml). Then crush the ice (5 cubes), put into glasses, pour the ready foamed mixture into it, add almond syrup (8 ml), sprinkle with bitter chocolate (15 g).

In the heat perfect pineapple coffee drink. First, carefully beat the liqueur, pineapple juice and ice cream.Then add pre-brewed and cooled coffee with ice.

One of the most unusual recipes involves the preparation of a peach coffee cocktail. First you need to crumble a pound of fresh juicy peaches. Half a liter of cow's milk is mixed with the same amount of coconut, brought to a boil and cooked. Add vanilla sticks, crushed peaches to the liquid. Then the mixture should be intensively whipped, poured into glasses and add crushed ice.

In coffee shops and restaurants bring a coffee drink, as a rule, in high glasses, designed for cocktails. From the frothy frappe hat you can see a straw. The Greeks suck through the straw thick smacking skin, not at all embarrassed. In the process of drinking cool water is poured into coffee.

Beginners need to know that frappe can be sweet (glycos), semi-sweet (metrios), and not include sugar (sketos) at all. Consequently, this type of drink is assigned to the category of Greek ordinary coffee. In the people he is called sweet, medium-sweet and black coffee. Milk is not always added to the drink, so when you buy you need to clarify whether it is in the coffee.

Frappe contains a high level of caffeine, so you need to drink it at least six hours before bedtime. Otherwise, a sleepless night is guaranteed.

The drink is in demand not only in the heat, but also in the cool. Exquisite taste frappe brings pleasure throughout the year.

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