🇱🇧 Lebanon
Ahweh
The Levantine daily rite: dark-roasted, finely ground, boiled to a foam in the rakweh.
🔪 Prep: 2 min🔥 Cook: 8 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Dark and thick with a proud foam (wish); cardamom optional, sugar negotiated per cup (sada, wasat, helweh).
Ingredients
- 4 tbspdark-roast coffee, powder-fine
- ½ tspground cardamom
- 4 cupswater
- to tastesugar to taste
Method
- 1
Bring water (and sugar, if helweh) to a boil in the rakweh.
- 2
Off the heat, stir in the coffee and cardamom.
- 3
Return to low heat and let it rise three times, never boiling over.
- 4
Pour slowly to keep the foam, and serve with water on the side.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4