Café de Olla Recipe (Mexican Coffee)
This traditional Café de Olla recipe is sweet, spiced, and incredibly easy to make with dark-roast coffee, piloncillo, cinnamon, and cloves.
Servings: 7 cups
Calories: 2kcal
Ingredients
- 8 cups water
- 1 5-ounce piloncillo cone or 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 whole cinnamon stick
- 3-4 whole cloves optional
- ½ cup ground coffee
Instructions
- Add water, piloncillo, cinnamon, and cloves in a stock pot.
- Bring to boil over high heat, breaking up the piloncillo to help dissolve.
- Remove from heat.
- Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Add coffee.
- Steep for 5 minutes.
- Strain through a fine strainer.
- Pour the coffee into cups.
- Enjoy!
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Notes
Some people will also add star of anise or anise seeds to this recipe.
You can also warm up the piloncillo in the microwave for 10-seconds and chop it up. That way, it will melt faster.
Piloncillo is sugar and boils at a higher degree. If you add the coffee while it’s boiling, you will burn the coffee.
For a less sweet version: use a smaller piloncillo cone, or break up a large one and only use half.
Nutrition
Calories: 2kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 12mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg