Barraquito
Barra-quito
The Barraquito is a specialty of the Canary Island of Tenerife.
Country:
Spain
To the:
Coffee time
Preparation:
10 min
Persons
1
Introduction
About the Barraquito
The name of this coffee is said to go back to a regular customer of the »Bar Imperial« in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Don Sebastián Rubio, who regularly ordered a cortado with condensed milk, a dash of liqueur, a lemon peel and some cinnamon, was nicknamed »Barraco« or »Barraquito«, and so his name was transferred to the drink.
Introduction
About the Barraquito
The name of this coffee is said to go back to a regular customer of the »Bar Imperial« in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Don Sebastián Rubio, who regularly ordered a cortado with condensed milk, a dash of liqueur, a lemon peel and some cinnamon, was nicknamed »Barraco« or »Barraquito«, and so his name was transferred to the drink.
Ingredients
- ½ hot espresso
- ¼ sweet condensed milk
- 1 piece of untreated lemon peel
- 2 cl liqueur 42 or Tia María
- ¼ milk froth
- cinnamon
Step by step instructions
Step 1
First pour the condensed milk into an espresso glass, then the espresso with the liqueur and then the lemon zest.
Step 2
Froth up some milk, leave to stand for a minute and spoon the froth onto the Barraquito.
Step 3
If you do it carefully, you will end up with three layers of condensed milk, espresso and milk foam.
Step 4
Finally, you can sprinkle the milk foam with cinnamon.
If you don’t have Liqueur 42 or Tia María to hand, you can also use another sweet liqueur.
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