Kurdish coffee

Kurdish coffee (Qehweya Kurdî or Qehweya Kezwanan in Kurdish) is a hot drink from Kurdish cuisine made of ground roasted terebinth beans as the main ingredient. It is served hot as coffee especially in northern parts of Kurdistan. In recent years it is appearing as a branded products in canned form in those parts of Turkish Kurdistan.

Although it is called "Kurdish Coffee", coffee is not one of its ingredients. Terebinth powder, milk and sugar are its main ingredients in the traditional formula. But some branded products contain coffee. Terebnith (Pistacia terebinthus) is native to Kurdistan. It is used as snack (especially a variant of it which has a softer shell, called bêmk in Northern Kurdish). It is a source of oil. The oil was used both in cooking and in making home-made soap. It is used ground and crushed in preparing some other traditional Kurdish foods.