Orange raff coffee: recipe at home, how to cook

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The fantasy of coffee lovers to create new drinks knows no hold. Gourmets endlessly experiment with espresso, milk and other ingredients, getting a variety of cocktails. One of the latest results of such experiments was raff coffee. The orange variation of this new cocktail will be explored in this article.

It should also be mentioned that there are other types of raff coffee: classic (vanilla), honey, cinnamon, and even sage and lavender. But many gourmets believe that such a soft combination, which gives orange juice, espresso and cream, you will not find in any other cocktail. Raf can be prepared at home, although with a professional coffee machine pitcher, making a drink will be much easier and faster. But a French press and a cezve will also work.

Interesting story of raff coffee

This drink appeared quite recently, at the very end of the 1990s. In the Moscow coffee bean coffee shopmetro station "Kuznetsky Most" was a regular named Rafael. He asked the barista to make a drink with a mild taste, vanilla flavor and moderate sweetness. To please a regular visitor, the staff tried their best. And as a result of long experiments with espresso, cream and vanilla sugar, a drink with a wonderful stable cap appeared. Gradually, other visitors began to order "coffee for Rafael." So the drink got its name. It soon became known simply as "raf" for shortening.

This coffee cocktail gained popularity in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Baristas taught their colleagues from other coffee houses how to cook raf. So the drink became popular in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan. In Western Europe, there is (and has been for a long time) its own rough coffee (pronounced “raf”). But this black drink is brewed from coarse coffee for those gourmets who like intense bitterness and great strength. The Russian cocktail is gentle and sweet. There is no hint of bitterness in it. The classic cocktail was soon made with numerous variations. One of them is orange raff. But gourmets also diversified its basic recipe with numerous versions. So, the citrus component can be obtained:

• from zest,
• from juice,
• from syrup,
• from liquor.

How to cook classic raff

Espresso, cream, vanilla sugar… Somewhere we have already heard this list of ingredients. Yes, of course! This is a cappuccino set! With whatAre these two coffee drinks different? Just the cooking method. In cappuccino, espresso is prepared separately and poured into a cup. Milk or cream is whipped and added at the very end, forming a cap. And in the classic raf, all the ingredients are mixed in a coffee machine pitcher or (at home) in a mixer and whipped together.

This method of preparation allows the ingredients of the cocktail to "get married", enter into a strong connection. The orange raff recipe differs from the classic one only by the addition of a citrus component. But it is also mixed with other ingredients at the very beginning of the preparation of the drink. Our main task is to prevent the cream from fermenting from contact with citrus juice. How to do it? Read on.

Ingredients for the drink

One standard serving of orange raff (180 milliliters) requires one shot of espresso. As with cappuccino, you will need twice as much milk as coffee. Based on the fact that a shot is 50 ml, we take half a glass of cream. The last product should not be too greasy. Eleven percent will be just right. If the cream is more fatty, it is recommended to slightly dilute it with boiled water. We also need two types of sugar: regular and vanilla, both 5 grams each (a small spoon each).

Some recipes suggest taking orange instead of regular sugar. Make it very easy. It is enough to drop orange syrup into granulated sugar. And finally, we need the juice of this citrus. Tastierthe drink will be made from freshly squeezed orange. But juice from a pack is also suitable. To decorate a cocktail, you can use cinnamon (1 gram). The seasoning will make the hat appetizing and add piquancy and astringency to the taste of the drink. You can decorate the edge of the cup with a circle of citrus.

Orange Rough Coffee Machine Recipe

First we make espresso. Already at this stage, we need to decide how we will serve the coffee cocktail. Raf, since it is considered a subspecies of cappuccino, is poured into medium-sized porcelain cups. But there is another way to serve - in tall glass glasses with a small handle, like for latte. In this case, double the espresso from one shot to two shots.

1. Pour cream, coffee and orange juice into the pitcher.
2. Add two types of sugar.
3. Beat with a cappuccinatore until a thick, dense foam is formed.
4. Warm up a cup or a glass goblet. Pour the prepared orange raff. As you can see, a small amount of citrus juice did not ferment the not very fat cream. The mass turned out homogeneous.
5. Decorate the coffee cocktail with an orange slice.
6. Sprinkle the surface of the foam with cinnamon or grated zest.
7. When serving in a glass, a spoon with a long handle is required. It can collect delicious foam that has settled on the walls.

Orange raff coffee recipe at home

What if you don't have a professional cappuccinatore machine at hand? This is no reason to refusedelicious drink. You can also cook raf at home. For this you will need:

• Turk or French press,
• pot,
• mixer or simple whisk.

First of all, let's make coffee. For such purposes, it is better to take a good Arabica of elite varieties. The taste of coffee brewed in a cezve is greatly affected by the quality of the water. What flows from our taps gives the drink a metallic and not-so-pleasant accent. Everyone knows how to make coffee in a French press. But making a drink in Turkish is an art.

1. So, put 4 teaspoons of ground coffee into the cezve.
2. Pour 150 ml of cold water.
3. Immediately put the required amount of regular sugar.
4. Put the Turk on fire.
5. As soon as the foam rises, raise the cezve over the burner. As soon as the foam lies down, we immediately return the Turk to the fire. So repeat three times.
6. Ready coffee must be strained.
7. Heat the cream in a saucepan to 70 degrees. This can also be done in the microwave.
8. Mix cream, coffee, vanilla sugar. Beat with a mixer or a whisk until foam forms.

Orange Chocolate Rough

This cocktail needs the same ingredients as the previous recipe. The amount of chocolate can be varied according to your own taste. Tiles need to be rubbed into crumbs. There are two ways to prepare orange raffe with chocolate. First, classic: mix all the ingredients in a pitcher (or saucepan) and whisk.

Second waymore original. Put a circle of orange on the bottom of the cup. Sprinkle with grated chocolate. Pour hot coffee. Place a topping of whipped cream on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon and grated orange zest.

Raf with liquor

This drink will be especially good on a winter evening with friends. We give ingredients for 4 servings.

1. Make coffee - half a liter.
2. Strain it.
3. Mix coffee with 150 ml of orange liqueur.
4. Add vanilla sugar to taste.
5. Separately whip the cream - one hundred milliliters.
6. Wash the orange and carefully rub the zest (the orange part).
7. Then we clean the fruit and divide it into slices.
8. Pour raf into tall glasses.
9. Spread cream.
10. Sprinkle them with orange zest. We decorate each serving of the drink with a slice of citrus.

As a non-alcoholic option, you can use orange raff coffee syrup. Given their wide range, you can experiment with flavors, giving the drink caramel, chocolate or citrus nuances.

Information for weight watchers

Black coffee, especially without sugar, is known to be low in calories. How about a sweet, creamy, orange raff? The calorie content of the drink can also be calculated. It is 85 units per 100 milliliters of cocktail. If you want to reduce the nutritional value of the drink, replace the cream with milk and reduce the amount of sugar. But it should be remembered that with a low-fat product to createyou will not succeed in a tasty and beautiful hat.