Dalgona Coffee Recipe
The year 2020 hasn’t gotten off to a great start - let’s all agree on that. However, it has given us a new drink to be excited about. Have you heard of Dalgona Coffee? It’s an iced coffee made popular in Korea and now it’s trending and making its way across the world thanks to the millions of people who are exploring recipes while self-quarantining. It tastes as good as it looks and it’s dead simple to make.
The drink is essentially two parts - the bottom part is milk over ice. The top is a frothy, whipped coffee cream consisting of only three ingredients: instant coffee, sugar and hot water. Time is essentially spent making the whipped topper and it honestly takes 2 minutes at most, especially if you have a hand-held, electric whisk. You can certainly use a manual whisk - just know it will take a lot longer and your arm will get a great workout.
Equal parts sugar and instant coffee.
Add equal parts hot water.
It’ll look like this.
Using an electric whisk, start whisking on a high setting.
It’ll start to change colour and lighten about 10 seconds in.
Continue whisking and it’ll start to froth and thicken.
After 90 seconds, you should get a frothy, thick, whipped consistency. Light as air and soft peaks formed.
Fill a glass 3/4 way full of ice and milk.
Using a spoon, top the glass with the coffee whip. Voilà!
Instructions:
In a medium bowl, pour in equal parts instant coffee, sugar and hot water.
Using a hand-held electric whisk, blend on high for 1.5 minutes. You’ll notice the consistency immediately start to thicken.
At the end of 1.5 minutes, you’ll get a frothy, whipped consistency with soft peaks.
Fill a glass 3/4 way with ice and milk.
Using a spoon, top the glass with the coffee whip.
That’s it!
Just a few tips:
I would recommend sticking to instant coffee instead of drip - I’ve heard mixed reviews from others trying drip coffee. If you don’t have instant coffee, espresso would be a better option as it’s more concentrated than drip.
It’s surprisingly not as sweet as I’d expect but if you’re concerned about the amount, you can certainly reduce it. I only used 3/4 of the amount compared to coffee and hot water and it still tasted amazing.
