How to brew ginger. How to brew ginger.

If you do not know about the amazing properties of ginger, then it is strange! The media is full of various information about this miracle root, which helps from all ailments and even returns the potency to men, but today we will talk about its impact on women's health and learn how to brew ginger.

White root not only gives a special taste to food and drinks, but also helps in the fight against various ailments, lethargy and excess weight. In the East, ginger is added to almost all dishes. Now it is clear why the inhabitants of those regions have such temperament and health.

How to brew ginger for the prevention of disease

Use a plant instead of drugs

It is known that it is better to prevent the disease than to treat it for a long time afterwards. If you like the burning taste of ginger, then adding it to food and drinks, you get the prevention of many ailments. Since today we are talking about how to brew ginger instead of tea, the first recipe will be this: pour a tablespoon of grated root on a half-liter kettle of boiling water. If you try ginger tea for the first time, we advise you to use it carefully - the drink will taste like hot pepper, but if you add the root a little bit, then everyone will find their own measure for a great cocktail.

The second way to brew ginger

At the bottom of the teapot (0.5 l) put a tablespoon with a hill of grated root. There we squeeze the juice from one slice of lemon and add a large spoonful of honey. First, fill the kettle with cold purified water (100 grams), carefully stir the contents, fill the rest of the vessel with boiling water and stir again. Tea should brew for five minutes.

Before using the white root in your diet, look if you have any contraindications to it:

• Any diagnosis of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially with the word "ulcer".
• Breastfeeding and pregnancy.
• Bleeding
• Fever, temperature.
• Inflammation of the skin.

Ginger tea for weight loss

If there are no contraindications, use our recipe: cut the root into thin straws, cover with water, bring to a boil and boil over low heat for fifteen minutes. Let cool and add lemon and honey.

How to brew ginger with black and green tea

Take the usual portion of tea leaves for the kettle and add there a dessert spoon of grated white root. Secret! Infusion should be infused more than 20 minutes, and after that it must be drained. This method allows you to take from the root all the best and not spoil the taste by overexposure.

This spicy plant can become a pet in every home, just need to find your dosage: someone will like his ability to create hot drinks, while others will like his light, refreshing touch.

Ginger cold drink

Mix the juice of grated ginger, lemon juice and honey to taste, if necessary, dilute the mixture with cold water - the drink resembles the taste of mead, it has a relaxing effect, tones. It can be used on holidays instead of alcohol: the taste is similar, but there is no alcohol intoxication - only a good-natured mood.

Ginger - a spice with a special aroma and a bit of a burning taste - has found wide application in cooking due to its amazing healing properties. It is added to soups, seasoned with meat dishes, used in the preparation of beverages. Recently, ginger tea has become extremely popular. But does everyone know that you can only benefit from it if you know how to brew it correctly?

What is useful

Before you proceed directly to the preparation of tea with ginger, it is useful to know what properties this spicy root has.

Due to the presence in the root of the plant of a large set of vitamins, minerals and amino acids, it has a fairly wide positive range of effects on the human body:

• Takes off fatigue and overstrain;
• Reduces headache;
• It improves memory and helps to achieve a higher degree of concentration (especially for older people);
• Increases the appetite, but it does not allow the formation of fatty tissues;
• Helps cleanse the liver;
• Increases immunity;
• Stimulates the digestive tract;
• Strengthens the cardiovascular system;
• Thins the blood;
• It has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects.

Tea for any occasion

Brewing and drinking ginger tea is a snap. There are many recipes for it. It is only important to choose a suitable for each individual case, and enjoy an amazing aromatic drink.

With a cold

In the autumn-winter period, tea with ginger can be brewed for prevention or to fight with seasonal infections at the first sign of their appearance. Do not wait when you get sick, brew tea according to the following recipe, it will certainly help you, especially if you have frozen or wet your feet.

• Take in equal amounts a small amount of ginger and cinnamon, add on the tip of a teaspoon of black ground pepper.
• Pour the seasoning mixture with boiling water. Let sit 15-20 minutes.
• Sweeten the drink to taste with natural honey.

Treat cough

Ginger tea is useful to brew with coldsaccompanied by dry cough. This hot drink will help relieve inflammation, reduce puffiness of the respiratory organs, and facilitate the process of coughing.

• Take a small piece of ginger root (about 2 centimeters), grate it.
• Add to the rubbed root 3 buds of cloves, one third of cinnamon sticks and 2 slices of lemon.
• Pour the products with 2 cups of boiling water.
• Let it brew for 10 minutes, strain.
• Add a tablespoon of honey.

Boost immunity

A large amount of vitamins allows you to use tea with ginger as a drink to enhance immunity.

By its action, ginger can be compared to garlic, but at the same time, unlike garlic, ginger does not have an unpleasant smell.

Brew ginger can be, as in the previous method, grated on a grater and boiling water. Or, put the chopped root in cold water and bring to a boil over low heat.

Diversify the taste of tea, and at the same time strengthen the vitamin composition by adding lemon, orange, honey or fruit juice to the drink.

Lose weight

Ginger tea is probably the easiest and most pleasant way to get rid of excess fat deposits. The fact is that ginger stimulates metabolic processes in the body, thereby, promoting the removal of excess fat. It activates blood circulation and improves mood.

Many women were convinced of the positive effect of ginger tea in the fight against overweight.

You can brew tea not only from fresh root. If it is not available, you can use the powder purchased in the store.

To brew tea from ginger powder, it is enough to put in a cup 0.5 teaspoon of the product and pour boiling water over it. Let it brew for 5 minutes, add honey, lemon, cinnamon to taste.

It is very useful to brew ginger in combination. with green tea. On 1 tablespoon of dry green tea is enough to put a third of a teaspoon of ginger powder. Pour boiling water. Give a little brew. Add to taste additional ingredients.

Another unusual recipe for slimming tea:

• To 2 tablespoons chopped ginger root add 2 peeled garlic cloves.
• Place the mixture in a thermos.
• Pour 2 liters of boiling water.
• Let stand for 2 hours.

In this tea is better not to add honey or sugar. It should be drunk in small portions before meals and in between meals. He is secure dulls hunger  and contributes to effective weight loss.

Attention! The product has contraindications!

Unfortunately, ginger root is not suitable for everyone. He, like any other means of plant origin, has a number of contraindications. It is better to refuse tea with ginger or to use it with extreme caution when:

• inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract: ulcers, gastritis, erosion, enterocolitis;
• fragile blood vessels and frequent bleeding;
• severe liver disease;
• serious problems of the cardiovascular system, preinfarction conditions, stroke, hypertension;
• high temperature (above 39);
• skin diseases;
• in the last trimester of pregnancy.

Video will help you get valuable tips and learn how to brew tea with an amazing healing root.

You will need

• - a piece of ginger root weighing 100g;
• - 3 cups boiling water;
• - honey, lemon, mint, brown sugar, cayenne pepper, etc.

Instruction

Fresh root ginger  covered with a thin skin, it is not necessary to peel it, but rather to scrape a little, like a young potato, but from the old the root  need to carefully remove the brown "skin". Cut the peeled ginger into thin slices. Boil the water.

You can make ginger tea in several ways. For example, pour boiling water over slices in a teapot, cover with a lid and leave for 15-20 minutes. You can put ginger in a pan or a ladle with boiling water and cook for 5-10 minutes, and then leave to cool for 15 minutes. If you have a special container for individual brewing - a tea strainer, you can put the pieces the root  into it and dip into a cup of hot water. In this case, use not the whole root, but only 1/3. The cup should be covered with a saucer or lid, so that the drink is infused for 10-15 minutes.

Strain the drink, if you are brewing it in a saucepan or ladle, pour it out of the kettle, or simply remove the strainer from the cup. If you keep the ginger in hot water for longer than the allotted time, the tea will be bitter.

Drink ginger tea as hot or cold as you like. This is a basic recipe in which you can make many changes. To make the drink sweeter, add honey or silent sugar, preferably brown. If you drink tea to keep warm, put a pinch of cayenne pepper or cinnamon in boiling water. Perfectly quenches thirst and soothes nausea cold ginger tea with ice, lemon slices and fresh mint. You can mix ginger with black or green tea if you are more accustomed to this taste.

If you did not have home the root ginger, and there is only powder from it, you can also brew ginger tea. To do this, mix in a cup 1 teaspoon of honey with 1/2 teaspoon of dried ginger the root  and cover with boiling water, cover with a saucer or lid and leave for 10-15 minutes. It is better to drink this tea right away, unlike any fresh drink. gingershould not be stored for a long time.

Ginger root is an aromatic plant widely used in cooking. If you cook with it broths and soups, it will give them a distinct savory flavor, typical of oriental dishes. Ginger infusions and decoctions, better known as teas, are popular remedies for colds, help from nausea and some gastrointestinal problems.

You will need

• Chinese chicken broth
• - 1.5 kg of chicken;
• - 10 cups of cold water;
• - 5 centimeters of fresh ginger root;
• - 1 bunch of fresh green onions;
• - 1 tablespoon of Chinese rice wine;
• - 1 tablespoon of soy sauce;
• - ground black pepper.
• Korean ginger tea
• - 1 large ginger root;
• - 500 ml of water;
• - 1 orange;
• - 2 Asian pears;
• - 1/2 cup of sugar.

Instruction

In China, many soups - seafood, vegetable, chicken, etc. - prepared on the basis of chicken broth. In some translation recipes you can meet the term "Chinese chicken broth". It is he who is unthinkable without ginger root. In addition, for him the old hen is taken, not the whole, but only the skeleton, the wings,

Greetings to all who ran to me at the light! The topic of today's article is ginger tea how to brew properly, retaining the maximum useful properties of this spice, and how to use it properly.

Nothing that I have designated the direction for you on the move? I think normal. There is nothing to torment the preliminary arguments. Moreover, this is not the first ginger article on the blog and I am not very indifferent to the spicy root. Last time we talked about the benefits of a favorite drink, now let's move on to more specific things.

From this article you will learn:

How to choose the root to brew a delicious ginger tea

Undoubtedly, the taste and benefits of ginger drink will largely depend on how good the root itself is. It is best to make tea with fresh ginger, but you can also use dried one. The fact is that in the composition of the plant there is a substance called ginger, to which the spice owes a burning taste.

• During heat treatment, it turns into a zingeron;
• When drying - in shogaol.

The molecular structure of both substances is almost the same, but shogaol is sharper, but the zingerone is fragrant. Such chemical reactions allow you to brew and boil ginger without losing its taste.

Choosing the spine, pay attention to such subtleties:

1. Fresh should be juicy, firm and white on a break. Prefer the longest (it has the most essential oils). Scrape the skin with a fingernail, a good product has a thin one and immediately after it is damaged, a specific aroma appears;
2. Choose a dried root dense, without foreign smells, black spots and even more so without mold.

You can make drinks with ground ginger, if you trust its quality and you are not bothered by its taste (it is somewhat different than that of just dried root). Before buying, make sure that the shelf life of the spice is not over yesterday.

Prepare ginger for brewing

In the East, the preparation of drinks with ginger root is a ritual. A bad product can give the drink an unpleasant bitterness and a non-specific flavor. And non-compliance with the rules of cooking and storing ginger will negate all the benefits of its use. To properly prepare the spice for making tea, consider the following points:

1. All the most useful is immediately under the skin of the spicy root. In a young plant, it is thin, because it can not be cleaned before brewing, but rather well washed or wiped with a rough dish sponge. The older spine has a thicker skin and will have to be removed. It is better to do this with a vegetable knife, brushing off only the uppermost layer shallowly.
2. Do not peel all the ginger at once. Cut a piece of the desired size, and return the rest to the fridge, after wrapping it with cling film. Root-free root should be cooked immediately, until all the “usefulness” have evaporated.
3. For processing and brewing use non-metallic dishes. It is better if both the knife and the pot are ceramic.
4. Brewing can be cut with thin rings ginger or grated on a large grater. It all depends on how much time you have. The smaller the pieces, the faster they will brew.

Important!  Fresh ginger root is stored in the refrigerator without sacrificing quality for just a few days. To extend the life of up to a month, you can slightly dry it. But a well-dried root does not lose its properties for half a year.

Some "good" people say that ginger can be stored in the freezer. It is impossible! Chill negates all the useful qualities of the product.

What to add to drink with ginger

Ginger tea is a special drink! At home, it is prepared in many ways, and the result will be new and interesting each time. Its bitter and spicy taste blends:

• with juice or fruit pieces;
• spicy spices (black pepper, garlic, chili);
• medicinal herbs;
• jam;
• dried fruit;
• spices (cloves and cinnamon, anise, cumin, star anise).

You can cook it, just brewed with water, or mixed with any kind of tea, milk or cream, fruit juices. Ready drink can be drunk both cooled, and hot.

1. In the summer with ice, citrus and mint you get a great refreshing tea;
2. In the fall, fresh berries of the outgoing season, apples and other vitamin supplements to strengthen the immune system will fall;
3. In winter, the best solution would be warming spices, zest of citruses and their juice. Brew it in a thermos and use it throughout the day to maintain energy.
4. In the spring, when the supply of vitamins is exhausted, you can add to the ginger drink rose hips, jams, dried fruit. It is important here when brewing to keep vitamins as much as possible;

Interesting!  True connoisseurs say that ginger tea is undesirable to drink with sugar. To hide the bitterness, add honey or homemade jam to the drink. Do not forget that honey cannot be put in hot liquids, wait until your tea has cooled slightly.

How tasty and useful to brew ginger tea

About that, I have already told, read. It is good to drink it simply in pleasure, but it is possible to extract and considerable benefit from such tea drinking. After all, ginger is used to treat many ailments, improve overall health, strengthen the body's defenses. Depending on what goal you are pursuing, choose the most appropriate and convenient method of brewing.

Practical option

The name speaks for itself, and this is true. I prepared tea in a thermos in the morning and a healthy and tasty drink at hand all day. Usually, horned root is brewed for cold or for weight loss. This is convenient, because therapeutic courses involve taking a few cups a day, and preparing a new batch every time is troublesome. With a thermos, everything is very simple:

• scald thermos
• we pour loose and crushed ingredients,
• pour boiling water over them
• close the container with a lid.

Do not forget to keep the proportions: for two liters of water usually take either two tablespoons of grated root, or a couple of centimeters of fresh (it all depends on the width of the original product). After half an hour - an hour, extract the ginger, if you do not want the drink to be too spicy and spicy. Those who are not afraid of spiciness and love more concentrated tea can leave all the components in a thermos for the night.

Attention!  Keep in mind, ground ginger is not suitable for a thermos. Extract it does not work, and after an hour the drink will acquire bitterness, and may become muddy.

Urgent option

Brewing ginger, as they say, on the run, when not before the ceremonies, can be done right in the circle. For this, it is better to use a special mug, in which there is already a container for laying tea components. If there is none, you can use a regular tea strainer. We act as follows:

• pour boiling water over a cup;
• fresh root cleaned from the peel and three grated;
• we pour into the container ordinary black tea and a teaspoon of grated spice;
• bays boiling water, cover with a lid (you can and a towel on top).

A drink is drawn like any tea - 10-15 minutes, but if everything is urgent, and 5 is enough.

I will share with you my little secret in this area. I love ginger drink so much that I almost never part with it. And so that there was always an opportunity to enjoy its taste and aroma, I make such a preparation:

• i grind in a blender an average root of ginger with one lemon;
• add two large spoons of honey and mix;
• i shift in a jar and tightly close.

The composition is beautifully stored in the refrigerator for a month. And you can always add it even to ready-made tea, even just to boiling water. A standard glass is enough a teaspoon.

Ginger decoction

In the pan, concentrated decoctions are prepared, which are well taken for cough, for sore throat, menstrual pains and other health problems. To do this, boil a couple of tablespoons of ground ginger in a liter of water separately or immediately with the rest of the ground ingredients.

I advise you to use this tea for the treatment of children, because it is both healthy and tasty. But with gastrointestinal problems refrain from taking it.

I also recently learned how to boil ginger with milk, very tasty. I propose a good way to make such a drink look in the video:

Important!If you make ginger drink with green tea, then remember the rules of its preparation. Such tea is brewed at a temperature not higher than 80 ºС. Therefore, either cool the ginger decoction before pouring it into the brew, or draw all the ingredients at once in the teapot.

Classic, but not quite ...

In the teapot prepare tea for a relaxing family gatherings. In principle, nothing prevents the brewing of a ginger drink in the same way as in a cup, but if you are not in a hurry, it is better to devote more time to this process and not regret it.

Brew your favorite tea in a ceramic teapot. At this time, make a ginger decoction by boiling a spoonful of grated root in a glass of water for a few minutes. Add the strained decoction to the tea and leave for a little more. If you want to make ginger drink in a tea pot without tea, use the original recipe from this video:

Some delicious recipes

The benefits of the horned root for men were known in ancient China, where the nobility appreciated it above gold because of the unique property of supporting male power. Women spice helps with toxicosis and menstrual cramps. It has a fortifying effect, enhances immunity, improves digestion. So that you are not bored with the same drink, I will offer several interesting recipes.

With toxicosis

Tea with honey and lemon

1. Get fresh juice from two lemons;
2. Top up with hot water to make 300 ml of liquid;
3. Add a couple of teaspoons of grated ginger and honey.

Tea prepared according to this simple recipe, you can drink to everyone, but more it will be enjoyed by women in the position. When toxicosis is an excellent remedy for nausea.

For potency

With licorice root and cinnamon

1. Take in equal proportions crushed ginger (can be ground), licorice root and cinnamon;
2. Two teaspoons of the dry mixture, pour a glass of hot water and let boil.

Very few men like to conjure in the kitchen, because those who do not know how to turn on the stove, you can mix honey with ginger powder and take in this form half a teaspoon.

To enhance immunity

With leaves of currant and juniper

1. Cook in a teapot for a handful of black and red currants with their leaves;
2. When the decoction acquires a pleasant red hue, add shavings of ginger and a sprig of juniper;
3. Allow the liquid to infuse and after, drink hot or cold.

With ginger and sea buckthorn jam

1. Finely cut a couple of pieces of ginger and add half a cup of sea buckthorn to it;
2. Brew the ingredients with strong boiling water.

A great invigorating and mood-enhancing scent will give a cinnamon stick with a badge. But a positive attitude is an excellent prevention of all diseases.

With spices and orange

1. Crush and mix a piece of ginger root with a teaspoon of mint;
2. Add cardamom at the tip of the knife;
3. Brew, let it brew;
4. Already in the cooled liquid add honey to taste and a quarter cup of orange juice.

Interesting!  The onion peel also has excellent tonic properties. You can boil a couple of handfuls of onion peel in a liter of water and mix with ready-made ginger tea or add it to the thermos when it is brewed.

For those who want to lose weight

Ginger and Garlic Drink

1. Two large spoons of grated spice mixed with gruel from a pair of cloves of garlic;
2. Pour the mixture into a thermos and fill with a couple of liters of boiling water only;
3. Let it stand for at least three hours and drink throughout the day between meals.

Do not abuse this drink. The optimal course lasts 2-3 days, after which it is better to switch to drinking without garlic.

With cumin and bay leaf

1. Mix in half a small spoonful of caraway seeds and ground cinnamon with a teaspoon of fine ginger chips;
2. Pour boiling water, boil and add a couple of bay leaves;
3. Boil for half an hour, turn off the heat and add two pinches of tea brew.

Strain before use. This decoction dulls the feeling of hunger and will become a good friend to girls who are on a diet.

With celery

1. Cut the horned root and celery in equal proportions;
2. Pour into the teapot and pour boiling water;
3. Add honey and, if desired, lemon and mint.

Drink a drink when it cools down a little, but not cold. Yesterday's tea can not be consumed.

Ginger in general is a very popular means for losing weight and tea recipes, which will help to approach the ideal of harmony, a lot. Soon summer will need to somehow get myself out of warm clothes, so I may write a separate article about how to lose weight with the help of horned root.

Now you know about ginger tea and how best to brew it and can surprise guests, work colleagues and your home. Add different ingredients and tell what happened. Maybe you will find the secret ingredient and your ginger tea will become the author, and his recipe is as good as gold. And I tell you “See you soon!”, Which I will try to make even more interesting.

Ginger is a very useful plant known to humanity for several thousand years. Its homeland is India and Southeast Asia. It contains many useful oils, vitamins and amino acids, so it is not surprising that many use it not only for cooking, but also for treating colds, digestive problems, and also used to combat obesity and as a general tonic. How to brew ginger so that it retains all the useful properties, read our article. By the way, methods of preparing a drink or tea depend on the purpose for which you want to use the root - for colds, the recipe will be one, for weight loss, the other. Both methods are discussed below.

  tea recipe for treating colds

This drink will help you with the fight against cold. To prepare it, take:

- 2 medium sized ginger roots;
- 1 cup of liquid honey;
- juice of 1 lemon.

Peel the roots, then grate them, or chop them in a blender. Boil 4 liters of water, add the resulting mass and boil for a few minutes. After the drink, you need to strain and pour into the resulting liquid 1 cup of honey, mix thoroughly and add the juice of one lemon (or a couple of tablespoons of the finished store). It was a basic recipe for making ginger. You can diversify it a little by adding natural orange juice to the decoction, or give it a special aroma, putting a couple of mint leaves, lemon balm, orange or lemon rinds while boiling. You can drink this tea in any quantity, it will give you energy and help you quickly defeat the disease.

How to brew for weight loss?

This drink will be a great helper for those who are struggling with obesity. After all, the root has long been known as a means of improving digestion and metabolism, as well as a slightly dulling sense of hunger. Drink a few glasses every day, and the result will not take long. To make a decoction, you will need a piece of the root and a thermos with boiling water. Simply chop or rub the ginger, place in a container with water and let it stand for a couple of hours. For greater efficiency, you can add a little clove or red pepper in this tea.

  to drink gave the maximum effect? In this case, besides the root, you will need garlic. Mix these two components in equal parts, and to 1 part of the mass, add 20 parts of water. Let steep for 15 minutes, strain and take throughout the day. If the drink seems to you not too tasty, it is not forbidden to add to it a bit of honey, fresh lemon or orange juice.

From the article you learned how to brew and drink ginger, and how to treat colds and obesity with this tea. Therefore, do not pass by this root in the supermarket, because it is an excellent remedy for those who prefer to fight diseases with folk remedies without using drugs from pharmacies.