New Orleans Coffee and Chicory in the Vietnamese Style
![Two glasses of iced coffee made with chicory coffee.](https://assets.epicurious.com/photos/64a7049b5265536910e9451a/1:1/w_2560%2Cc_limit/NolaCoffee_RECIPE_062923_56297.jpg)
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Active Time
2 minutes
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Total Time
7 minutes
My favorite place for coffee and chicory is Ba Mien Vietnamese restaurant in New Orleans East, a neighborhood where many Vietnamese immigrants settled in New Orleans after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Though coffee and chicory is the standard in New Orleans, it’s actually rare to find at the fancy coffee shops. My guess is since it has its own flavor to which you wouldn’t want to add flavored syrups, the cappuccino-swirl-extra-shot-with-oat-milk-and-a dash-of-sugar-free-salted-caramel coffee shops would rather just not sell it. Furthermore, with it being so commonplace and, to New Orleanians, the typical cuppa joe, most people won’t spend fancy coffee shop money on it either.
Ba Mien’s chicory coffee is special but simple and budget-friendly: justCDM coffee with chicory, hot water, and sweetened condensed milk. What ups the ante is that they use the Vietnamese single-cup metal coffee filters calledphinsand serve it in beautifully decorated cups and saucers. The recipe below includes preparation instructions for iced chicory coffee (cà phê sữa đá) and for serving the coffee hot (cà phê sữa nóng).
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What you’ll need
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CDM Coffee With Chicory
$19 At Amazon
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Sweetened Condensed Milk
$23 At Amazon
Ingredients
Makes 1
Special Equipment
Step 1
Add1 Tbsp. sweetened condensed milkto a heatproof glass. Remove the metal filter from the phin and add1 Tbsp. (heaping) ground coffee with chicory. Twist the filter on gently until it just starts to stop. Place phin onto glass with condensed milk. Pour a tiny bit of boiling water in filter just to wet grounds and allow them to expand. Fill filter with 4 oz. boiling water, top with lid, and allow it to brew 3–5 minutes. The coffee will drip over the condensed milk.
Step 2
For hot chicory coffee, stir to incorporate the condensed milk and enjoy. For iced chicory coffee, prepare a separate glass of ice and pour mixed coffee over ice.
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