Beverage

Buna (Coffee Ceremony)

Name: Buna (Coffee Ceremony)
Total time: 45m
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ethiopia
Ingredients: 1/2 cup green coffee beans; 1.2 L water; Frankincense; Sugar or salt to taste; Popcorn or dabo kolo to serve

The three-round Ethiopian coffee ceremony — beans hand-roasted, hand-pounded and brewed in a jebena.

45m 6 servings Medium

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup green coffee beans
• 1.2 L water
• Frankincense
• Sugar or salt to taste
• Popcorn or dabo kolo to serve

Method

Step 1 of 520%

Wash green beans; dry-roast in a clay pan until dark and oily.

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1
Wash green beans; dry-roast in a clay pan until dark and oily.
2
Fan the smoke to guests; grind coarsely.
3
Boil water in a jebena; add grounds; steep 5 min.
4
Decant in a thin stream through the jebena's neck into small cups.
5
Repeat brewing twice for abol, tona and baraka rounds.