Coffee (Yafi’ee Style)– قهوة بيضاء يافعية
July 25, 2010 by lamyaalmas
In Yemen this is called “Qahwa bayda” meaning white coffee. It is absolutely delicious.
For two mugs you will need:
1) 1 cup of toasted sesame seeds (or more if you lke–we scoop them up with a spoon after we have drank the liquid)
2) 3 cups of water
3) 1/2-3/4 of a cup evaporated milk
4) 1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon
4) 1/4 tsp of ground cardamon
5) fresh ginger grated (half the size of your index finger)
6) sugar to taste
7) 1 tsp of Yemeni coffee ((lightly toasted coffee beans that have been ground)
Place the water, sesame seeds, cinnamon, cardamon, sugar and ginger in a saucepan to boil under medium heat. Get it into a rolling boil, and then lower the heat and let simmer under low for about 8-10 minutes for the flavors to blend.
Add the evaporated milk (you can add more if you want it milkier). Let it boil for another 5 minutes or so. Add the coffee and let boil for a few seconds (do not boil for long) and serve immediately.
Enjoy ! Makes for a great winter drink.
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A Yemeniyah's Recipes 
there’s no milk in yafai coffee.. and you never let it boil after you put the ground beans in it?
there are only 3 kinds of yafai coffees that i know of and they’re made essentially the same way.. water, cardamon, cinnamon, ginger (all three fresh- not ground). that’s the basic. once you add sesame+sugar to it, its called sesame coffee. once you add sesame+wheat balls+sugar its called sesame-wheat coffee (like asian bubble drinks).
my mom use to say northern people put milk/sugar in their coffee, as do some people in the cities (aden/sanaa) but never in yafa. she said if i try she’ll kill me for wasting her black sesame seeds lol.. (she doesn’t mean it.. i hope…but they are imported from yemen so.. maybe she does? lol. joking.)
<3 your blog though.
My husband is Yaf’ee and so is my best friend and both my mother-in-law and my friend and her family make this coffee. I learnt it for them. But understand where your mother is coming from–because my mother sticks to old traditions too. But people are fast changing, and the lines are merging and blurring food wise. Yaf’ees today make this as often nowadays as the plain kind, which my mother in law makes and loves too.
Thanks for the input and all the comments :)
Lamya
Drinking Yemeni white coffee in Israel
Hello to all my Yemenite brothers!
peace!