Turkish (Persian) Coffee

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Persia in Peckham

By Sally Butcher

Published 2007

  • About

Coffee is still drunk in Iran, but it is an occasional after-dinner tipple, or perhaps consumed on a rare outing to an up-market Tehran café.

When Iranians do drink coffee, it is not often the spiced, bitter blend brought by the Arabs (although in the mostly Arab south of the country they are naturally partial to the stuff), but rather the thick, rich Turkish or Greek-style blend, brewed up in a little