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Dirty coffee recipe

Dirty Coffee: What is it and how to make it

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Dirty coffee is a delicious and easy-to-make beverage combining hot espresso and cold milk. To make it at home, we used Moka pot coffee, which is a more affordable and simple alternative.

  • Total Time: 7 minutes
  • Yield: 2 cups of dirty coffee 1x

Ingredients

Scale
  • 10 g ground coffee
  • 120 ml water
  • One glass of cold milk

Instructions

  1. This step doesn’t give you any problems if you have an espresso maker at home. Here we’ve used 8 g of coffee per 29 ml of water for an espresso shot, but you can adjust this according to your preference and your machine. Additionally, you can use a single or a double shot of espresso for this drink. To keep things simple, we’ll use a single espresso shot.
  2. Start with a glass—a transparent one works best because you can see the espresso and milk mixing— and add your cold milk to it. Then top it with your hot espresso right before you’re about to serve it. If you’d like to sweeten things up, use syrup instead of sugar and add it to the bottom of the cup. Do not mix the coffee after adding the espresso. This will ruin the entire effect of the drink. 

These two steps are all it takes to make an excellent dirty coffee. Now take some pictures and make your friends jealous, share them with your friends online, or enjoy the coffee by yourself. Dirty coffee looks and tastes terrific anywhere. Do these two steps right, and you’ll have a smooth cup of liquid heaven. 

Notes

Nutrition facts are approximated and calculated using the Verywell recipe nutrition calculator.

  • Author: Sahar Zehra
  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Cook Time: 5 minutes
  • Category: Coffee drinks

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cup
  • Calories: 74
  • Sugar: 6.4 g
  • Sodium: 51 mg
  • Fat: 4 g
  • Saturated Fat: 2.3 g
  • Carbohydrates: 5.5 g
  • Fiber: 0 g
  • Protein: 4.1 g