How to use instant coffee: 5 ways to use it besides brewing

Adding instant coffee to your dishes can greatly enhance their flavor, giving them an unpredictable aroma and flavor palette. Experiment with instant coffee in your culinary creations and enjoy new aromas and flavors in your dishes.

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It's worth looking at this product from a different perspective if you don't use it just to make a drink, writes the Tastingtable website. Here are some interesting ways to use instant coffee in cooking:

1. Add coffee to your meat spices: When cooking steaks or other meat dishes, you can use a mixture of dry spices to which ground coffee is added. Instead of regular coffee, you can use instant coffee granules. It will help create a crust on the meat and improve its flavor.
2. Enhance the flavor of spicy dishes: Instant coffee goes well with cinnamon, chili, and cumin, which are often used in spicy dishes. By adding a little coffee to dry spices or dissolving it in water before cooking, you can enhance the flavor without overpowering the spicy taste.
3. Add coffee to barbecue sauce: Instant coffee can be used to enhance the salty and smoky flavors of barbecue sauce. Simply dissolve the coffee in water in appropriate proportions and add to the tomato paste.
4. Enhance the flavor of the vinaigrette: When preparing a vinaigrette, you can try adding a small amount of instant coffee, first dissolved in the vinaigrette. This will give an original flavor and aroma to your sauce.
5. Add instant coffee to the streusel: Streusel is a loose crumb that can be used to garnish various types of baked goods. When making a chocolate or coffee cake, add some instant coffee to the streusel. This will give sweet dishes an unpredictable flavor.

As a reminder, we have already written about 5 foods that should not be added to coffee.

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