Smoking a hookah has become a pleasant pastime for many. Usually, lovers of this type of recreation purchase ready-made mixtures in stores, not knowing that they can be easily made on their own. From our article you will learn hookah recipes, as well as some secrets of making tobacco.
Apple bowl
Hookah recipes are not too complicated, but you will need patience and skill. Keep in mind that you may not get the desired result the first time, so stock up on double the required ingredients.
What we need:
- Hard green apple (preferably sour varieties).
- Water.
- Chilled apple juice.
- Crushed ice.
- Lemon juice.
- Double Apple, Melon, Plum or Mint tobacco blend.
You will learn the hookah tobacco recipe when you read the following instructions:
- First, process the apple - cut the core with a special knife, and then cut off the top of the fruit. After that, make a depression in the pulp, resembling a funnel. Please note thatthe walls should not be too thin, and the cut should not go below the middle.
- After that, make a filter that will protect the hookah shaft from tobacco. To do this, take a piece of apple five millimeters thick and make several holes in it with a toothpick. Thanks to this action, the air can circulate smoothly during the smoking process.
- Put the filter at the bottom of the apple funnel, and pour tobacco on it.
- Cover the apple bowl with foil and secure with toothpicks. Don't forget to make a hole in the center of the last sheet with the needle.
Put the charcoal in the center so that the apple doesn't let the juice out and become too soft.
Hookah with milk. Recipe
Trying different options and ways of preparing the mixture, sooner or later you will find your favorite taste. Therefore, do not be afraid to experiment, read hookah recipes and bring them to life. For this option, you will need the following ingredients:
- Watermelon, Lotus, Melon or Vanilla ready mix
- Water.
- Vanilla.
- Ice.
- Low fat milk.
- Fresh or frozen strawberries (strawberry syrup works as well).
How to cook:
- Chill the milk in the freezer, remembering to shake it occasionally. The product will be ready when ice appears in it.
- If using frozen berries, wait until they thaw.
- Cut the strawberries into pieces.
- Pour into the flaskhookah chilled milk, add ice and cut berries. Remember that the flask can burst from a temperature difference. Therefore, it should also be cooled in advance by placing it under running water for a while.
- Add a couple drops of vanilla and some strawberry syrup (optional).
- Load the tobacco into the flask. Try to use several types at once, determining the proportion to your own taste.
- Saturate the tobacco with milk and knead it a bit with your hands - you can skip this step if you are afraid of burning and bad smell.
If the milk starts to foam while smoking and the foam gets into the pipe, drain some liquid and dilute it with water.
Turkish hookah
This recipe is very popular in Turkey as all the ingredients are combined very harmoniously. Take:
- Ice.
- Water.
- Five lemons.
- Tobacco flavored with apple, cherry, mint and coffee.
How to cook:
- Squeeze the juice from the lemons into a cup, mix it with chilled water and add ice.
- Mix prepared tobacco into chilim.
Strawberry cloud
Ingredients:
- Ice.
- Milk.
- Water.
- Tobacco flavored with vanilla and strawberry.
Recipe:
- Mix the types of tobacco in equal proportions and then place them in the chilim.
- Pour cold milk and water into the flask, add crushed ice.
Lemon Apple Recipe
Foryou can use an apple bowl to prepare hookah or simply fill the flask with the prepared mixture.
What we need this time:
- Lemon & Apple, Double Apple & Lemon, Apple Clove & Lemon, or Mint Apple & Lemon tobacco blend.
- Crushed ice.
- Cherry juice.
- Milk.
- Finely chopped green apple.
- Zest of a lemon, orange or lime.
- Lemon charcoal.
Recipe:
- Chill the lemon juice and then combine it with water, grated apple and a pinch of cinnamon. The result should be a fairly thick mass.
- Tobacco cut and mix with lemon base. It will be better if you lay it in layers.
- Pour milk over the mixture.
Citrus Delight
To prepare a hookah with a refreshing effect, you will need tobacco flavored with lemon, orange or lime. You will also need any fresh fruit (citrus) peel that needs to be cut into small pieces. Fill one third of the bowl with the peel and the rest with tobacco. You can add mint flavored tobacco if you like. Mix prepared foods and add a few drops of lemon juice to them.
Pour cold water into the flask, add ice and a few slices of lemon (they can be squeezed into the flask beforehand). Lemon charcoal or any other unflavored charcoal works great for this recipe.
Recipe for water hookah
This is perhaps the most popularfilling the hookah flask. Water in this case acts as a filter, as resins settle in it. As a result of its use, the smoke becomes cleaner and more aromatic. Try the classic version called Orchard.
Ingredients:
- Water.
- Ice.
- Tobacco flavored with cherry and apple.
Recipe:
- Put a mixture of different types of tobacco, prepared in equal proportions, into the bowl.
- Fill the flask with water and ice.
Despite the ease of preparation, the taste of the hookah is rich and pleasant.
Cherry Twilight
The original taste can be achieved if you use the following ingredients to make hookah:
- Water.
- Cherry juice.
- Sliced apple.
- Grapes
- Crushed ice.
- Coconut charcoal.
- Tobacco blend "Cherry and Grapes", "Cherry and Rose" or "Cherry and Apple".
Recipe for making tobacco for hookah, read on:
- Put the juice bag in the freezer and wait until it freezes. Take it out of the fridge periodically and shake it.
- When the right time has passed, pour the juice into a flask and add ice.
- Crush a few grapes and add them to the liquid.
- Cut the apple into small pieces. Also send the blank to the flask.
- Cut the tobacco mixture coarse enough to leave large leaf fragments - so the flavorwill be richer.
- Lay the tobacco into the flask in layers, placing apple pieces and crushed grapes between them.
To enhance the flavor, you can put some dry cherry leaves between the coals.
Hookah with alcohol
As you know, the taste of the liquid that you pour into the flask is perfectly transferred along with the smoke. Therefore, if you want to give the flavor originality, then use alcohol for cooking. See hookah recipes below:
- Pour champagne, water and Red Bull into the flask, put ice. Mix wild berry and plum flavored tobacco in chilim (in this case, equal proportions are needed). Light the hookah slowly, as this aroma quickly hits the head.
- Dilute the red wine with water and pour the liquid into the flask. Put tobacco with the taste of wild berries in the bowl. As a result, you will get a very fragrant smoke that will help you relax and make the evening romantic.
- Put the melon mint tobacco into the chilim, then fill the flask with champagne and ice.
- For this recipe you will need apricot tobacco, white rum and water. Mix the liquids and then pour them into a flask.
- Chilim fill with Apple or Double Apple tobacco. Then fill the flask with a chilled mixture of champagne and freshly squeezed apple juice.
Hookah mixes
Next, we want to talk about the different flavors of finished tobacco, as well as how they can be combined with other types:
- Apricot. This tobacco has a rather sugary and sweet taste. If you use it in its pure form, you will feel the taste of shampoo. Therefore, it is better to combine it with other varieties. For example, with vanilla and mint. You will get a good result if you mix apricot with melon and mint.
- Pineapple has a pleasant taste, you can make excellent hookah mixes from it. The recipes are very simple. For example, pair pineapple with cherries and melons or wild berries. An interesting combination gives pineapple with grapes and peach.
- Orange. In its pure form, smoking it will not be very pleasant, since the taste is quite sugary and sharp. Therefore, use such tobacco in a hookah mix. Recipes for making mixes will not make it too difficult for you. Just mix orange with mint and banana, or add plum and vanilla to it. Another interesting option is a combination of cherry, melon and orange.
- Watermelon. This flavor is very popular as it gives the smoke a pleasant aroma. This product can also be used to make hookah tobacco blends. The recipes are quite simple: pair watermelon with melon and mint or mango.
- Vanilla is used to add to many fruit mixes. For example, it goes well with strawberries, cola and lemon, melon and banana.
- Cherry. Without additives, the taste is very unfortunate and almost no one likes it. But for the preparation of mixtures, such tobacco is used quite often. For example, in combination with rose and mint, as well as with watermelon, grapes and mint.
- Pear. Tobacco with such a taste is very rare, so evaluate itfew can. If you manage to get it, then try the combination of pear with lemon and grapes.
- Double apple. This taste is considered classic and has a lot of fans. Hookah recipes with it are also very simple. Try the combination of a double apple with a cherry or cola. You might like to pair it with cinnamon and vanilla.
- Cappuccino gives a sharp and strong coffee taste. Please note that after using such tobacco, you will have to wash and air the hookah for a long time to remove the lingering smell. If you want to mix this type of tobacco with others, then try adding vanilla and cinnamon, chocolate and strawberries, or apple and cola to it.
- Kiwi is a wonderful flavor that is great for mixes. You can mix it with watermelon and mint, watermelon and lemon, mint and grapes.
- Strawberry is a very popular but rather sweet flavor. It is a bit like jam and goes well with milk. If desired, you can add banana, multifruit and mint flavored tobacco to it. Strawberries are also often mixed with kiwi and mint.
Conclusion
As you can see, popular hookah recipes are quite simple, and you can easily reproduce them at home. Therefore, carefully read our instructions and start experimenting.
