What is Dalgona coffee?
Where we all are at home practicing lockdown in india and other parts of the world , we are craving our favourite food and beverages, that include starbucks,dominos,kfc and else.
But some people have come to the rescue with an alternate of starbucks , another coffee drink that is popping up across instagram ,youtube and twitter saying dalgona coffee challenge.
What is Dalgona Coffee?
"Dalgona coffee" is a beverage made by whipping equal proportions of instant coffee, sugar and hot water until it becomes creamy and then adding it to cold or hot milk. Occasionally, it is topped with instant coffee, cocoa, crumbled biscuits, or honey.
Where it came from?
The beverage (dalgona coffee's) origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent, where it is called phenti hui (Hindi) / fetano (Bengali) ("beaten coffee", "whipped coffee"), and has long been popular there before going viral on social media.
Dalgona coffee's viral status on social media came as a result of Jung Il-woo, a South Korean actor who visited an eatery in Macau where he was served a similar beverage reminding him of "dalgona," a type of nostalgic Korean honeycomb, and later presented on a South Korean TV show called Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant Under the hashtag #dalgonacoffeechallenge, homemade versions of dalgona coffee began spreading on South Korean YouTube channels before going viral on TikTok.
How to make Dalgona Coffee?
step 1:
While many variations of the recipe work the simplest one requires equal measurments of coffee sugar and water(hot/cold). For one serving use roughly 2 tbsp of each.
step 2:
Next , the coffee,water and sugar need to be whipped.Using either a mixing bowl or a mug,whip the coffee with a hand blender or even by hands using a whisker.The coffee will gradually become thicker and lighter in color. Continue whipping until the coffee reaches the texture of softly whipped cream or airy pudding.
step 3:
Next, pour cold milk into a glass and add ice cubes. Finally, spoon the whipped coffee into the glass, floating the mixture on top of the milk.
If your arm isn't too sore from whipping coffee, take a photo of the creation and post with the hashtag #dalgonacoffeechallenge.
When it comes to actually drinking the coffee, you have to undo some of your work. The whipped coffee on top of the milk is too thick to sip the milk through, so give it a good mix
Why is Dalgona coffee trending?
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented disruption of people’s lives. In the midst of the gloomy health crisis and increasing lockdowns, however, food has emerged as a great unifier for those quarantined at home.
If New York has run out of flour and yeast because people are baking more and more bread, coffee aficionados have popularised the Dalgona coffee —inspired by a spongy toffee in South Korea—on social media. The three-ingredient frothy coffee on everyone’s feed should remind India of its own gastro-diplomacy potential in these tough times.
One of the leading coffee-consuming nations in Asia, the coffee culture in South Korea can range from basic premixed coffee to more artistic culinary experiences. Moreover, coffee shops in the country are one of the most preferred places for socialising. With these places being shut because of the coronavirus pandemic, some South Koreans turned to a simple home-made version of the beverage. Dalgona coffee, which is also being dubbed ‘quarantine coffee’, has become a raging trend on social media—with the recipes and photos of the beverage flooding platforms like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
It requires three simple ingredients — instant coffee, milk and sugar — and some time to whip. Which is why it’s a quarantine favourite.
The Dalgona coffee is only the latest among a number of other South Korean delicacies which have become increasingly popular in recent years. While Dalgona coffee got catapulted into worldwide fame through a spontaneous social media trend, other South Korean dishes like Kimchi and Bibimbap partly owe their global popularity to concerted efforts by governmental agencies and food industry bodies of South Korea. All these are excellent examples of South Korea’s soft power in the culinary sphere, or in other words, its gastro-diplomacy.
My reviews on the Dalgona coffee :
Well , when it comes to coffee I am a huge fan of it,I've had a lot of varients of it, and yes I've known this varient as well , way before it started to hype up ,little did I know that its called anything like Dalgona coffee. my love for inventions and mixing-matching got me a dalgona coffee before you can even imagine it so, you can call me a pro to it as its been one of my favourites lately.
So, here's all the knowledge I had about the Dalgona coffee,
I hope you enjoyed reading, will see you with a new post till then, stay home and enjoy your Dalgona coffee.