Coffee is a widely consumed food worldwide and used in many dishes in amateur and gourmet cuisine. In savory dishes it is widely used for sauces and in sweets it flavors any cake, reductions, creams and even ice cream. It is drunk during the day as a remedy for sleep or as an excuse to talk to someone. Chocolates, milk, dulce de leche, cardamom, cinnamon, are just some of the ingredients that accompany it perfectly. But have you ever heard of mushroom Coffee? Now it’s a reality.
According to the Spanish media La Gran Época , there are companies that have innovated with a combination of instant coffee and mushroom extracts, a variety of fungi. To consume it, it only needs to be mixed with hot water and voilà.
To create mushroom coffee blends, mushroom extract powders are often created by isolating and spray-drying different key components in medicinal mushrooms.
The mushrooms that are usually implemented in this manufacture are cordyceps, chaga, lion’s mane, turkey tail and reishi.
WHAT IS MUSHROOM COFFEE AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
It is neither more nor less than a coffee to which we add mushroom powder and which results in a drink with many minerals, vitamins and which, in addition, is very tasty. You can use this type of mushroom, although it is also very common to see variations of this coffee made with shiitake mushrooms , trumpet mushrooms or chaga mushrooms (a mushroom that is sold directly in powder form).
Initially, mushrooms began as part of the infusions that many of the most hipster cafes in the United States made for a nutritious and different take away . However, the Four Sigmatic company decided to develop a whole range of products around this ingredient (mushrooms, fungi and mushrooms), mixing it not only with tea leaves, but also with coffee or cocoa. Its commercialization in capsules and sachets spread to the beaches of Malibu and from there to the rest of the cities in the West. The first to arrive was a package of 100% Arabica coffee with mushrooms that, they claimed at the time, helped us regulate blood sugar and activate your metabolism . A good dose of energy, also due to its caffeine content, which was a success and is already being reinvented to become the drink of next fall .
WHY MIX THEM ?
Experts argue that the combination of the benefits of coffee with the medicinal powers of mushrooms becomes a more than delicious and healthy option for consumers. The manufacturers say that you are not likely to have health concerns such as anxiety and insomnia with this special presentation.
In addition, they also explain that it helps with digestion, diabetes, and liver health.
They also comment that the product does not have any mushroom flavor and that even the mushrooms chosen for this drink taste quite a bit like coffee.
A 2013 study by the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms found that the reishi variety contains antioxidant properties and combats harmful immune responses that reduce liver function.
For the same medium, one of the businessmen of this guild commented that mushroom coffee emerged as a result of the lack of availability of coffee several centuries ago, while today it is becoming a trend not because there is a shortage, but because people are looking to get more from your daily consumption.
THE BASIC MUSHROOM COFFEE RECIPE
First of all, and before telling you how to do it, you have to know that the mushrooms we use are not fresh, but in dehydrated or powdered format , a much easier way to integrate them into our drink . And yes, it is a product that is still difficult to find in our supermarkets, so, as a second option, you can always make it at home by grinding dried mushrooms (or any other variety of mushrooms) until you get a kind of flour , but a little darker. .
If you do it this way, you will have obtained a perfect ingredient for your sauces, stir-fries and soups ; in addition to the mushroom coffee that we are going to teach you how to make below. A drink on the rise, as is the mushroom smoothie, which (more or less) follows the same operation, but mixing the mushroom powder with fresh fruits, a little chocolate and, above all, using bananas mature.
STEP BY STEP: MUSHROOM COFFEE
With almond milk or any other vegetable drink (we have chosen this one for its sweet touch and body), we teach you how to prepare a delicious mushroom coffee to start any day with energy.
This coffee has become very fashionable and promises to become the drink of every morning as soon as autumn begins. Therefore, start practicing it now with this recipe in which we give it a very foamy texture thanks to the almond vegetable drink, although you can use any other. You set the sugar level, and you can do without it, although we do not recommend it, it is delicious as is.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 0.5 tablespoon of ground cinnamon
- 2 cc Mushroom Powder
- 150 ml of freshly brewed coffee
- 150 ml of almond vegetable drink
PREPARATION
- 1.We place all the ingredients in the glass of our blender and blend them until we achieve a creamy and homogeneous texture.
- 2.We preferably serve it hot, although if we prefer, we can make it cold with a couple of ice cubes. Of course, better freshly made.
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