How to prepare cappuccino at home

Cappuccino is a native Italian drink that has gained worldwide fame. It is believed that invented his monks - Capuchins, very fond of coffee with milk. The name of the Order of Capuchins, according to this version, gave the name of the drink.

According to another version of the name of this type of coffee gave a cap of milk foam, the crowning cup (in translation from the Italian cappuccino - hood, hood).

A well-prepared cappuccino is very tasty. Fragrant exquisite and delicate drink, topped with snow-white foam with a painted heart and served with cinnamon sticks on a saucer. In the summer evening you can come to a cafe and have a cup, forgetting for a while about the hectic.

It is believed that only professionals know how to make a cappuccino "right". But practice shows that with some training and a mere mortal can easily prepare cappuccino at home. Not gods pots pots burn, as they say.

A detailed recipe for cappuccino at home.

So, to what we aspire. Cappuccino is a well-brewed coffee, in which milk can be added. On top of the drink is decorated with lush milk foam seasoned with cinnamon and sugar.

We will need:

• ground coffee

• cream

• sugar

• Grated cinnamon

The presence of water, a plate (gas or electric), dzhezva and other dishes - needless to say.

Step-by-step description of the preparation of cappuccino at home.

Step one . We make coffee. In dzhevos we pour coffee (2 small spoons on one coffee cup), fill it with water and put it on the fire. At the same time, we do not remove the hand from the jezee handle and keep the eye on the future coffee.

As soon as the coffee foam activated and moved to the exit from the dzhezva, quickly remove all this from the fire. We wait until everything is quiet inside and settles into place, and again put jesus on the fire.

And we do this several times. At least four. In this competition "for speed" with foam it is important for us not to allow the boiling of coffee. Boiling, it will become bitter, hopelessly spoiled, and this will mean that we were not able to prepare cappuccino at home.

Step two . Whip the milk foam. This case is not complicated, but requires skill, which, as you know, comes with experience. Only high-fat milk or cream can be beaten (fat content not less than 6%).

The proportion is approximately the following: 1 cup of coffee - one cup of cream. Pour cream into the saucepan. For the first time, it is better to take cream for only one cup. And in general, cappuccino is a fun game, in large volumes it is not cooked.

We put the cream on the fire and wait for ten seconds. Then we take the mixer and start whipping them. Here it is important not to miss the moment of foam. It can be tracked by the appearance of large bubbles on the surface of the cream. As soon as they appeared, we concentrate and wait for them to disappear. As it was gone - the foam is ready, turn off the mixer.

Step three . Mixing of coffee and foam. Coffee is poured into a beautiful cup (or what is). Then, with a tablespoon, gently spread the foam over the coffee.

Step four is a decoration. Fill the top with sugar (small spoon) and cinnamon. Here we will know for sure whether we have a cappuccino. We start with cinnamon. If the foam keeps it, carefully add sugar. If the sugar turns out to be (foam) in its power, it means that the cappuccino has turned out to be "right".

If the sugar falls through the foam, then the material requires fixing. Again, take coffee, cream and then on a prescription. And you can not worry, everything will start to turn out very quickly.

There is another way to cook cappuccino at home, though more expensive. To implement it, you need a home coffee machine, advanced enough to have this same cappuccino in its options. Then the process of making the drink will be simplified and become a matter of habitual, sort of like drinking tea for breakfast.

And then we again pull in a cafe, where we will bring cappuccino in a beautiful cup with cinnamon sticks on a saucer. And with a heart drawn on a foam.