Ginger root every day takes an increasing place in the culinary and medicine of our country. Its form predetermined the name: Zingiber - the so-called Latin ginger, translated as “horned root”. Today, this beautiful plant in the wild is not found anywhere in the world. But the whole plantation can be found in India, China, many tropical countries.
Why is this plant so useful?
It has fiber, a lot of carbohydrates, vitamins A, B, C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc. The spicy taste of the root arouses appetite and helps to lose weight. It helps against colds, helps the absorption of food, protects against poison.
Useful properties depend on how to cook ginger root.
Ginger tea made with honey helps with colds, pneumonia, throat, bronchitis.
In order for tea to turn out to be truly medicinal, you need to know how to brew ginger root.
The root is thoroughly washed in cold water, crushed on a grater. It is transferred to glass or porcelain dishes, squeezed lemon juice there, add honey, in accordance with your taste. To preserve the healing properties of honey, which it loses at 70 °, cold water is poured into a glass with ginger and lemon juice, about one fifth of the volume. Stir, trying to dissolve honey, then pour boiling water. After 10 minutes, a burning aromatic sweet and sour drink is ready.
Ginger root can also be used to treat rheumatism or muscle pain. Compress recipes are checked repeatedly. Ginger is rubbed smaller, spread on gauze, as a compress is applied to the place where pain is felt, carefully wrapped in a blanket or scarf. Compress will disperse blood, reduce pain, relieve inflammation.
For weight loss, ginger root is also used. The recipes are very different.
Drinks and dishes that come from a unique plant are not only healthy. They are delicious.
For example, a salad with ginger. Its pungent taste is achieved without the help of salt and sugar.
For cooking you will need:
• Raw carrots (instead of sugar)
• Boiled or baked beets (instead of sugar)
• Celery (instead of salt)
• Orange zest. It gives a spicy bitterness, so you should not add a lot to the salad
• Lemon
• Grated ginger
All ingredients are mixed. After a quarter of an hour, when all the juices are mixed, the salad can be eaten even without olive oil.
To dull the hunger, you can take with you to work ginger tea with honey, brewed in a thermos. It is prepared very simply: they throw several pieces of ginger into a thermos, pour boiling water. Such tea can be drunk with honey.
Ginger root, the recipes of which came from antiquity, helps not only lose weight, but also get better. To do this, it is enough to eat a small piece of pickled ginger before eating.
Fans of Japanese or Chinese cuisine know that sushi is always served with ginger. This tradition came from the moment when they began to use puffer in food - conditionally poisonous fish. Cooked by an inept cook, it becomes deadly poisonous, and only ginger can relieve symptoms of poisoning.
Pickled ginger root, the recipes of which are numerous, helps to better absorb and digest food faster, reduces cholesterol.
Cooking it is easy. It is necessary to cut the root into thin plates, put it in a glass dish, pour vinegar. Even ordinary vinegar will add spice, but the root, drenched in rice vinegar, is beyond praise.
Ginger root can be not only sharp. Recipes for candied sweets won the hearts of many gourmets. It is used in the preparation of cookies, added to baking, served instead of sweets.
Young roots are washed well, cut into slices, put in a jar, add a few drops of juice squeezed from lemon, pour sugar syrup. Such ginger is stored in the refrigerator.