Cardamom coffee adds a wake-up flavor and feeling to your cup o’joe. And is a sophisticated taste you may be excited to wake up for or try.
You may not like the taste initially but give it a couple times and it can grow on you. If you’re used to American coffee with sugar and cream, then cardamom is going to knock you out of your normal coffee taste rhythm. But that can be in a very good way.
As coffee drinkers, we drink coffee as a habit or ritual and to intake caffeine to help us when we’re first waking up or tired. So adding cardamom spice to your coffee will enliven your coffee life.
Cardamom spice tastes like black pepper and has a distinct earthy note. As a flavoring to black coffee, the distinct taste is like no other. Cardamom helps to gives coffee an extra lift and add an extra pep in your step. And especially from its peppery notes.
There are no similar tastes out there, but you can add Ceylon cinnamon and fine black pepper to get a similar type of taste. Cassia cinnamon is more compatible and commonly used in baking in case you want to know which one to get. Use subtle table ground pepper, and not coarse black pepper from a peppermill that’s too strong for a similar cardamom coffee taste.
And a funny note here: if you don’t like the cardamom taste or smell because it resembles for example, an unpleasant skunk-like smell or medicinal taste, you can still add cardamom with love knowing it’s healthy good for you.
1. Cardamom coffee is anti-inflammatory
Research shows cardamom as anti-inflammatory that helps to prevent certain chronic diseases. Like curious tasting turmeric, cardamom is also more healthy potent when you add black pepper to bring out the anti-inflammatory health benefits.
And drinking caffeinated or decaf black coffee is linked to longevity and healthy habits.
2. Cardamom coffee is Ayurvedic and helps you lose weight
Most cardamom is cultivated in southern India where Ayurveda thrives. It’s good for Kapha and balancing the Kapha characteristics of sluggish moods. And with a punchy strong taste, can help curb appetite if you’re trying to lose weight.
3. Cardamom takes you out of your boring daily routine
To spice up your day, you may want to try cardamom with a Turkish coffee that is non-filtered coffee. The special coffee type leaves finely ground coffee grinds as sediment at the bottom of the coffee pot and coffee mug you’re drinking from.
The texture and taste takes getting used to, but if you want to change up your boring coffee habits and routine, and spice up your cardamom coffee even more, then that’s one Turkish traditional way.
And if you want to slow down your busy day, getting to the last bottom Turkish coffee drop takes longer than a quick Western world coffee that you can chug down in seconds. And if it’s an espresso, in less time than that.
Cardamom in coffee takes you out of your old busy patterns and habits that can cause a rut in your life. It’s an adult tasting beverage, and maybe that’s why mom is in the cardamom name. Kidding aside, drinking a daily cardamom coffee is a reminder to do different things and things differently in your life to get better outcomes and results than your past.
And ICYMI, both coffee and cardamom are plant-based that are good for losing weight.
