Among the beverages that are very popular in India, coffee is basically a South Indian favorite. Use of coffee after South Indian Recipes has become a practice in most southern states like Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andhra and Kerala. Especially, Tamilnadu excels in the use of filter coffee that has become a branded beverage of the state.
Indian Food is often preceded or followed with some sort of beverages. Such beverages could be tea, coffee, cold drinks and lassi or any such thing. However both tea and coffee has become a household article with widest of uses and there is rarely a social occasion or even a family where one of these beverages are not used.
Coffee is a major social institution in Southern Indian Tamil tradition. It is also called the Madras Chennai Filter Coffee and is unique to the state of Tamilnadu. This beverage, a complement to most Indian Recipes is prepared from gourmet coffee beans of the Arabica variety. The coffee beans are roasted and then grinded and filtered into fine powder.
Now almost an indispensable part of the Indian Cuisine in southern India, coffee is prepared with a mug of hot milk and sugar and is shaken well for mixing. Then the prepared coffee is served in a coffee cup that is often unique in shape and size. For example, the Chennai filtered coffee is served with a unique coffee tumbler.