Arabic Coffee

Section: Hot: Brewed Coffee · heritage · vegan · low calorie · batchable

Ingredients (as the source specifies)

Light-roast Arabic coffee 10 g per 200 ml water
Ground cardamom 1 g
Saffron, a few threads
Cloves, optional

Further specification

Service: Dallah + small cups + dates

Operating procedure

Applies to: traditional Gulf-style Arabic coffee, lightly roasted and spiced, served from a dallah.

Target: 15-20 minutes for a fresh dallah batch.

Use light-roast Arabic coffee ground medium-coarse; heritage style keeps the roast pale, not dark.
Have green cardamom (and optionally saffron, cloves, or rosewater) measured and ready.
Warm the dallah and small handleless cups (finjan); keep dates on the side per custom.

Bring filtered water to a boil in the dallah, then add the ground coffee at roughly a 1:20 coffee-to-water starting point.
Adjust strength to taste; heritage qahwa is lighter-bodied than espresso, not thick.
Simmer gently on low heat for about 10-15 minutes; do not hard-boil, which turns it harsh.
Add crushed cardamom (and saffron if used) in the last few minutes so the aromatics stay bright.
Let the grounds settle off the heat, then pour clear coffee into the dallah for service, leaving sediment behind.
Serve in small cups filled about one-third full, refilling on request; present with dates.

Color is clear golden-to-amber, never muddy or black.
Aroma leads with cardamom; no scorched or over-boiled bitterness.
Served hot, sediment-free, cup filled only one-third by custom.

Exact spice blends and strength vary widely by region and household — cardamom is near-universal, while saffron, cloves, and rosewater are regional preferences. This is a general heritage method, not a single fixed recipe.

Energy, derived from the ingredient list

Computed line by line against the source's own coefficient table. Nothing here is typed in.

Filter coffee or plain cold brew · 200 × 0.01 = 2 kcal
Plain tea and herbal infusion · 0 kcal
Saffron, a few threads · 0 kcal
Plain tea and herbal infusion · 0 kcal

Derived total: ≈ 0 kcal

Caffeine, derived from the ingredient list

The derivation is incomplete: these lines name a caffeine carrier the source states no factor for, so no total is published - an understated safety figure is worse than none: