Description
Coffee with Milk (Café con Leche) is strong black coffee (similar to espresso) that is poured into scalded milk. Sugar is then added, according to your taste.
Scale
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons ground espresso coffee
- 2 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 cup whole milk
Instructions
- Boil water in a saucepan.
- Add 2 tablespoons of ground espresso coffee. Stir until a foam starts to form.
- Reduce heat to medium. Simmer for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Strain the black coffee with a cloth strainer over a glass jar.
- Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of brewed coffee into a cup. Stir until a paste is formed.
- Pour milk into saucepan over medium heat. Stir continuously until bubbles starts appearing around the inside edges of saucepan.
- Gradually pour the entire brewed coffee into saucepan with milk. Simmer for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Inside a cup, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of brewed coffee. Stir until a paste is formed. You can also just add regular sugar, according to your taste.
- Pour Coffee with Milk into cup.
Notes
Nutritional Facts without Sugar for 1 cup: 91 Calories, Total Fat 4.3g, Cholesterol 12.2mg, Sodium 77.1mg, Total Carb 8.8g, Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 6.2g and Protein 4g.
- Category: Beverages
- Method: Boiling
- Cuisine: Puerto Rican
