🇲🇾 How to Make Kopi O

Craving Kopi O? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Kopi O at home, in about 10 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 tbsp coarsely ground dark-roast coffee (kopi beans, roasted with sugar)
• 500ml water, just off the boil
• sugar to taste
• a coffee sock, or a cafetière at a push

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Put the grounds in the sock and stand it in the pot.
2. Pour the hot water through and let it steep 5 min. Boiling water straight onto the grounds scalds them and turns it bitter.
3. Now pour the coffee back and forth between two pots, from a height, four or five times. The repeated pour aerates it and is what makes kopi taste round rather than sharp.
4. Sugar goes in the cup, not the pot, so everyone gets their own.
5. Kopi O is black with sugar. Add condensed milk and it becomes kopi; pour either over ice and add ais to the name.
6. Serve it too hot to drink, in a thick cup, ideally next to someone reading a newspaper at 7am.