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Greek Frappé

Name: Greek Frappé
Total time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 1
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 2 tsp Instant Coffee; 0–2 tsp, to taste Sugar; 2 tbsp + 100ml Water; 4–5 cubes Ice; 2 tbsp (optional) Milk

Drink

⏱ 5 min

👥 Serves 1

Difficulty ⭐

Frappé is Greece’s summer iced coffee: instant coffee, sugar, and a splash of water shaken into a thick foam, then topped with ice and water. The fluffy foam is the star.

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📖 The Story Behind This Drink

It’s said to have been invented at the 1957 Thessaloniki trade fair, when a coffee-company employee made instant coffee with cold water in a shaker. Now it’s a café staple, sipped slowly through a straw over hours of conversation.

🌆 Where it’s enjoyed: On a summer afternoon at a seaside café terrace, friends talk for hours over tall glasses of frappé.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 1)

Instant Coffee 2 tsp
Sugar 0–2 tsp, to taste
Water 2 tbsp + 100ml
Ice 4–5 cubes
Milk 2 tbsp (optional)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the instant coffee, sugar, and 2 tbsp water in a shaker (or a jar with a tight lid).
Shake hard for 20–30 seconds until it becomes a thick, creamy foam. A handheld milk frother also works.
Transfer all the foam to a tall glass and add the ice.
Slowly pour in 100ml cold water; the foam rises to the top. Add milk if you like and serve with a straw.

💡 Tips for Success

In Greece you order it sketos (unsweetened), metrios (medium), or glykos (sweet).
Only instant coffee foams this way; brewed coffee won’t work. Nescafé is the Greek standard.
Stir the foam in with your straw and sip slowly, the Greek way.

🍽 Goes Well With

Bougatsa

Spanakopita

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