 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal here one more video about Turkish coffee I have to do and that is how to make your own cardamom coffee at home even if you don't have any pre-ground cardamom coffee in your area because it is kind of something you will find in more Arab Middle Eastern stores so this is what you can do you can just simply take some coffee beans take some cardamom pods and mix them together and store that in a glass jar that's the crux of this video essentially but I'm going to show you the whole process now by the way it doesn't need to be special cardamom it's just regular green cardamom and these will grind in a sozen Turkish grinder so this is the proportion I use now it's very easy to overpower the coffee with the cardamom which is not what you want you want kind of the cardamom as a background note so I kind of go like 80% coffee 20% cardamom or even 90 to 10 I don't measure it exactly but you get the idea a couple of cardamom pods for each handful of coffee let's say so I just loaded them by hand into my sozen manual Turkish coffee grinder if you are using another manual grinder it's worth checking with the manufacturer if it can grind cardamom pods because you don't want to break your grinder so now here comes the fun part of grinding coffee by hand someone was asking me on reddit the other day how long does it take for me to grind a cup of Turkish coffee by hand and I was like I actually have no idea but I think it's like two minutes and it's actually really mindful and kind of relaxing I actually really enjoy it when I used to do this like many times a day aka three or four times a day you just kind of after a while learn by like muscle memory how long to grind for in this case I'm a bit out of practice so I ended up not quite grinding enough and I needed to do a second second round grinding but I laid out these little glass bowls so you guys can take a look at the difference between my home produced cardamom coffee and a commercial cardamom coffee which is coming from Izzymans in Jerusalem which is a favorite coffee store of mine so this is what came out of the sozen just now and I actually just recalibrated it to make it a tiny bit tighter and finer so this is even like slightly more coarse than it can go but just for the sake of comparison here is the Izzymans cardamom coffee next to it and you will notice that the Izzymans is just a bit more powdery this is produced during using a very expensive high-powered conical burr grinder from Ditting which is a Swiss company so that's the difference you can kind of see the couple of speckles of cardamom in my hand grain stuff but on the finest setting on the sozen it gets very very close so what I'm going to do now is pour out my coffee from the hand grinder and then you know if you want to be really dogmatic about it you can measure with a measuring cup if it's one level tablespoon I tend to eyeball it but for the sake of this video I made everything as kind of good as I could except for cleaning the coffee maker apparently anyway that was my one tablespoon it's gone in and for measuring I always as I say you just leave a tiny bit of water at the top of your coffee cup and this is my Arzum Oka Minio automatic Turkish coffee maker it is literally one of the best things I've ever bought and it will brew you lovely Turkish coffee in only one minute so it's just about to reach the end of the cycle there we go with the pips and now all it's left to do is pour your coffee into the cup I just drunk this cup of coffee before recording this voiceover and it was delicious now depending getting the crema with Turkish coffee is fickle I kind of got half a crema and I just noticed there's this cool like moon shape going on if you get really really fine you kind of have a better crema but I don't really pay attention to it that much other than what I'm thinking what the hell does the moon mean in my coffee thank you guys for watching this video if you want to make a cardamom coffee at home just remember you don't actually need pre-warrant cardamom coffee if you have access to coffee beans and hand grinder and some cardamom pods which can generally be found in any supermarket spice section you have everything you need to make awesome cardamom coffee in your home thank you guys for watching if you do want to get more videos from me do please consider subscribing to this youtube channel thank you guys for watching again