Dalgona coffee is a Korean beverage that is preparing whipping instant coffee powder, sugar, and hot water. It can garnish by adding cocoa or coffee powder or small chocolate chips as a topping. This is a good sweet-tasting milky coffee beverage with whipped coffee for the evening. In this dalgona coffee recipe, you can use fresh milk or condensed milk with instant coffee or brewed coffee.
We can make it without sugar, so you can substitute honey bee or erythritol based sweeteners. This beverage popular in Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown situation. This is a new recipe to the world. While many people use either electric beater, manual hand beater, or milk frother to prepare the whipped dalgona coffee. The electric mixture or whisker is recommended to use, it can make this process easier. We have to mix this dalgona coffee foam until it becomes meringue-like. In another word, it’s super soft, thicker, and glossy.
Few Questions regarding the whipped dalgona recipes.
Can prepare dalgona coffee without instant coffee.
Yes, you can prepare the whipped coffee cream using the ground/brewed coffee but it needs a few extra steps. You have to prepare a sugary coffee syrup. This syrup should thick. Although there’s no taste difference. If you can easily find instant coffee, it’s a bit quicker and creates a thick foam.
How to made dalgona coffee without sugar?
You can substitute bee honey or a low carb sugar alternatives like erythritol or monk fruit-based sweetener as a substitute for sugar. So this beverage can use persons who are suffering from high sugar. This kind of sweetener mix is a good keto beverage recipe for your family.
Why Dalgona coffee not fluffy or foam?
That means you haven’t beat the mixture well. You have to properly whip the air into the coffee mixture. Moreover, you have to use enough portions of the ingredients to whip. Using an electric mixture or hand mixture or milk frother beat it until you get soft coffee milk foam.
How to use brewed coffee for dalgona recipe.
Prepare three cups of brewed coffee using boiled water and add it to a saucepan. Then add three teaspoons of sugar and heat. When its water evaporated and the mixture becomes a thick syrup, pour the syrup into the mixing bowl. Use this syrup as an alternative to instant coffee and follow the other steps to make the coffee foam. In the original recipe, I have mentioned adding two teaspoons of hot water, brewed coffee users don’t need it that ingredient.
How to make dalgona coffee
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Teaspoon
- Mixture
- Tea Cup
Ingredients
- 2 Teaspoon Instant coffee
- 2 Teaspoon Sugar
- 2 Teaspoon Hot water
- 1.5 Cup Milk - Chilled or heated or half-half
Instructions
- Add coffee, sugar, and hot water into a mixing bowl and mix well until it makes a soft creamy foam. If you use an electric mixture whisk it for around 5 minutes, for hand mixture users need around 8 minutes.
- Pour milk into a cup and add sugar as per your taste and mix well.
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I’ve tried this with instant coffee. Yes, it’s delicious!