An egg coffee is a Vietnamese drink which is traditionally prepared with egg yolks, sugar, condensed milk and robusta coffee. The drink is made by beating egg yolks with sugar and coffee, then extracting the coffee into the half of the cup, followed by a similar amount of egg cream which is prepared by heating and beating the yolks. It was introduced by those Vietnamese who had been living in the USA returning to Vietnam and was inspired by “Eggnog” in the USA.

Making Egg Coffee

Ingredients 

• 1 egg
• 3 teaspoons of Vietnamese coffee powder (Vietnamese coffee is available on Amazon here)
• 2 teaspoons of sweetened condensed milk
• Boiling water

Directions

• Brew a small cup of Vietnamese coffee. (Vietnamese coffee filters available on Amazon here. Also, for visual step-by-step of the brew process, there is a good set of photos explaining how to here.)
• Crack an egg and discard the whites.
• Put the yolk and the sweetened condensed milk in a small, deep bowl and whisk vigorously until you end up with a frothy, fluffy mixture like the one above. Add a tablespoon of the brewed coffee and whisk it in.
• In a clear coffee cup (we’re going for aesthetics here), pour in your brewed coffee, then add the fluffy egg mixture on top.
• Presto. Egg coffee.