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Coffee and Cardamom
Mar. 27th, 2022 10:54 amCardamom in MY coffee?
Sure - why not?
Adding cardamom to coffee is a thing, and I decided to try it this morning. For my first cup, I just grabbed a pod of black cardamom and broke it apart into the grounds before I added water. The result was - at best - very subtle.
When I made another cup, I took the extra step of dropping a cardamom pod into the mortar and giving it a few taps with the pestle to crack the seeds before I added it (shell and all) to the grounds. This time, the cardamom is more apparent in the coffee. And, I daresay, pretty good.
I normally stop after this many cups of coffee in a day, but I think that I'm going to make an exception today because I want to try this one more time using a green cardamom pod instead of a black one.
This is not the first time I've added cardamom to my coffee, but this is the first time I've used whole pods, rather than just sprinkling in a bit of powdered cardamom. I was never happy with the results from powdered cardamom, and it left me wondering what I was doing wrong (or if it was just an acquired taste). It turns out that what I was doing wrong was using powdered cardamom.
Sure - why not?
Adding cardamom to coffee is a thing, and I decided to try it this morning. For my first cup, I just grabbed a pod of black cardamom and broke it apart into the grounds before I added water. The result was - at best - very subtle.
When I made another cup, I took the extra step of dropping a cardamom pod into the mortar and giving it a few taps with the pestle to crack the seeds before I added it (shell and all) to the grounds. This time, the cardamom is more apparent in the coffee. And, I daresay, pretty good.
I normally stop after this many cups of coffee in a day, but I think that I'm going to make an exception today because I want to try this one more time using a green cardamom pod instead of a black one.
This is not the first time I've added cardamom to my coffee, but this is the first time I've used whole pods, rather than just sprinkling in a bit of powdered cardamom. I was never happy with the results from powdered cardamom, and it left me wondering what I was doing wrong (or if it was just an acquired taste). It turns out that what I was doing wrong was using powdered cardamom.
