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How to brew ginger?

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Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Ginger, also called horned or white root, contains many vitamins, as well as essential oils. That is why it is often used in the process of making healthy drinks and delicious dishes. Since ginger has a sharp but pleasant specific taste and a spicy smell, tea is often made from it. This drink is very useful for the body, because ginger can speed up metabolism, strengthen immunity. Further on in the article, you will learn how to brew ginger to improve your well-being and stabilize your body weight.

How to brew ginger for weight loss?

To brew ginger for weight loss, you will need a small piece of this ingredient, which must be cleaned and wiped through a fine grater. In the end, you get 2 tablespoons. Rubbed root, to which you should add half a lemon (squeeze out juice from it and grind its skin) and 2 tablespoons. Honey.

First, you should boil 1 liter of water, and then add ginger to it. Keep on the fire for 10 minutes, then cool and add honey and lemon juice to the ginger drink (also a bit of cinnamon is sometimes added for taste). Next, strain the liquid using gauze, and the tea is ready. Drink it better before eating, to muffle the appetite and at the same time saturate the body with the nutrients it needs.

How to brew ginger?

Before properly brewing ginger, you need to understand how it will be tastier and more useful. Usually, white ginger is sold, which is already completely peeled. But black ginger, which has not been cleaned, a more intense smell, as well as a burning taste. The most suitable are the solid light roots of the plant, between the tubers of which there is no mold - such ginger is the most juicy and the freshest.

To make a drink, cut ginger into thin pieces, add green tea leaves to it, and put fresh lemon (3-4 lobules) on top and pour it all over with boiling water.

How to brew ginger for cold and cough?

Ginger tea is considered a classic anti-cold remedy. Brewing ginger from cold is not at all difficult - for 4 cups you need to take ginger (a small piece, no more than 2-3cm), clean, and then cut into small thin slices. Then they put it in the teapot, pour the tea leaves and pour boiling water.

This recipe is well suited in situations where the throat hurts, and even when coughing. To brew ginger from cough, you need to take green / black tea, 1-2 cloves, 2 cardamom pods and actually ginger itself.

First, you need to brew tea and strain it with gauze in a saucepan, after which add rubbed ginger, cardamom, and cloves into the drink, then cook for about 20 minutes. In the end, sometimes add a little orange (freshly squeezed) or lemon juice.

After that, the drink should be cooled and filtered again. You can drink this kind of tea, both warm and cold. Such ginger tea cures well not only a slight cold and cough, but also it can reduce the intensity of coughing with pneumonia and severe acute bronchitis.

How to brew ginger for immunity?

The recipe for brewing ginger for immunity:

  • Peel and chop a small piece of ginger root;
  • After this, pour a glass of water and boil it in a saucepan;
  • Cool the resulting broth.

This drink can be drunk in pure form, diluted with water (any proportions), or pre-added to tea. If every day you drink at least half a glass of this ginger broth, your health will improve. In addition, it helps strengthen the immune system.

How to make tea and coffee with ginger?

There are many options for how to brew coffee with ginger. Ginger can be added to the turkey, where coffee is prepared (before that the root needs to be grated or cut) - so you will get ginger black coffee.

Mediterranean coffee with ginger has a softer taste, since cocoa is added to it. Also among the components are anise, cinnamon and orange peel, which create a delicious aroma of this drink.

Latte with ginger is brewed as follows: boil the milk, add cinnamon, nutmeg, as well as cloves and cardamom. After 1 minute add to this fresh grated ginger with sliced mint leaves. After that, you can add coffee and bring the resulting mixture to a boil. Finally it is necessary to give coffee to infuse for 5-10 minutes.

Add ground ginger in coffee is recommended in less quantity than fresh, as the taste of ground spice is more acute.

Very easy to make tea with ginger - you need to cut into small slices about 2-3cm of the root of the plant, and then pour them 2l of water and brew. It should be during the day to drink 0.5 glasses a day. Tea before or after a meal. You can add lemon, honey, or some syrup to the taste.

How to brew the root of ginger?

The root of ginger can help to quench your thirst with intense heat, and also destroys different bacteria, as it is an excellent bactericidal agent with healing properties.

You can use fresh ginger root to make a fragrant and burning drink containing a huge number of useful ingredients that can help in the treatment of the common cold, as well as coughing and inflammation in the throat. Ginger also helps in the treatment of more serious diseases of the bronchi and lungs.

How to brew the root of ginger? There are many methods for making a drink from it. For example, clean the fresh ginger root (100g) from the skin, cut into slices, and then pour boiling water and leave to infuse under the lid for 5-10 minutes. Another option is to add ginger to the already boiling water and cook it in this way for 5-10 minutes, and then leave for about 15 minutes. The broth should be drunk warm.

It should be noted that if ginger will stay in hot water for a long time, tea will start to taste bitter.

Drink made from ginger, you can use and cold. He can remove nausea and quench his thirst. And if you want to warm up with ginger tea, add a little bit of cinnamon or cayenne pepper. Drink should be planted with green or black tea, and to add flavor, you can add mint to it. For brewing, dried ginger root is usually used.

How to brew ginger with lemon?

Brewing ginger with lemon is made as follows. It is necessary to clean the ginger root, and then rub it with a small grater. For a drink, 1 tsp will suffice. The resulting powder, which is ground with a lemon slice and poured with boiling water (if necessary, you can add sugar to taste). It is necessary to give the broth to brew, then cool it to a suitable temperature. The resulting drink will have a pleasant burning taste and a spicy flavor.

How to brew ginger in a thermos bottle?

How to brew ginger in a thermos bottle? To do this, take a fresh root of ginger (2cm of the plant for 2 liters of water), peel off the skin and cut into slices. After that, put them in a thermos, pour the capacity with boiling water and leave to infuse for about 40 minutes. This is the easiest way to brew ginger tea. Drink a drink during the day. To improve the taste, you can use jam, honey or lemon.

How to brew ginger with garlic?

Ginger in combination with garlic is able to protect the body from colds and strengthen the immune system. In addition, it helps to cope with the infection that has already appeared.

To brew ginger tea with garlic, you need a root of fresh ginger (about 4cm), as well as 2 garlic cloves. Ginger is cleaned and cut into slices, after which it is put together with garlic in a thermos and poured with boiling water. The present mixture is filtered and drunk during the day. To improve the taste, you can add honey with lemon to the drink.

It should be noted that brewed ginger tea with the addition of garlic does not have a garlic smell.

How to brew dry, fresh and ground ginger?

To preserve the medicinal properties of ginger, a variety of methods of brewing are used. This ingredient is perfectly combined with black / green tea, various spices (cinnamon), melissa, mint, and rose hips. You can brew dry ginger in the ground form - it takes about 5 minutes.

Ginger tea is an excellent tonic, which can be used as a soft drink - for this, ice cubes are added to it. In addition, chopped mint leaves, sugar and lemon juice are placed in the tea.

Fresh ginger is brewed for 20 minutes. Used ingredients such as 3 tablespoons. Rubbed ginger, 3 tbsp. Orange or lemon juice, 6 tbsp. Sugar (or 5 items of honey) and 1.2 liters of water (5 cups). You can also add chopped mint leaves.

Add fresh ginger to the boiled water, then remove from heat. If tea is to be used as a medicine for colds, boil the broth, without covering the pan with a lid, for 10 minutes.

In the drink add sugar (honey), then strain, trying to squeeze out of ginger maximum liquid. Then add the juice and a little pepper. Tea should be drunk hot.

The ground ginger has a significant advantage before fresh - it does not need to be pre-prepared before brewing tea; besides this it can be stored for a long time. The easiest way is to brew the ground ginger, adding a pinch of ginger powder to the freshly prepared tea.

How long does it take to brew ginger?

It usually takes about half an hour to brew ginger. Although there are recipes in which tea with this spice should be insisted about 1 hour.

How many times can I brew ginger?

The most useful properties are fresh ginger tea, so it is best to brew ginger only once, and make a fresh portion of the fresh ingredient.

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