Many people love to drink their coffee especially in the morning where they find it most appealing. But less awareness from coffee lovers that it can be included in Caterer’s food recipes. Including the coffee bean in the food will make it more different and can be considered as exotic food already. The bitter taste of coffee ground or bean and its acidity is the best taste that complements those sweet, nutty and bold ingredients of common food or desserts of typical Filipino dishes.
Here we will enumerate some food that could be dashed with coffee taste and flavorings to make our eating more exciting and delicious. The most common recipe to be considered is cakes and desserts such as banana flavored baked cakes and bread because the sweetness of banana will complement with the bittersweet taste of coffee espresso or even brewed coffee. Addition this, main course is also an option such as steak, grilled and barbecue recipes. You just need to add a sprinkle of ground coffee or combine it with honey and sugar (glucose) to be rubbed on the meat and that will make the trick.
Rice can also be an option in food recipe and just by frying the rice and include brewed coffee then its rice flavored rice that is good for the health. We can now even try the soup recipe by using toasted bread that can be break into pieces (bite sized) and mixed with coffee with half-half sugar. Sprinkle with cinnamon, powdered sugar and other chocolate bits.
A main course I already tried is to make a “morcon de kape Batangas” where we included in the sauce of the dish a brewed coffee and used it in plating the food. The sauce makes a combination of bitter smell that makes it more appealing. It was combined with coke to deal with the bitter taste that the brewed coffee produces. Addition to this, instead of chorizo, we used longanisa since it has sweet taste along with pickles, eggs and cheese. It really is tasty and very appealing especially to those who never tasted the dish.
Coffee is really good in pairing with different food, but its more delicious if it is really included in the recipe of the cuisines.
