How to easily peel, slice, julienne, chop, mince, and grate fresh ginger root.
My favorite wonder food.
Add a little tohoney and lemon teato help fight a cold.
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Use it to spice up astir fry.
Make the most amazinggingerbreadby including some grated fresh ginger in the batter.
Or if you happen to have a lot of ginger to use up, you cancandy it.
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Pregnant women I have known swear by it.
Not really, but you may want to for aesthetic reasons.
I like peeling ginger with the edge of a spoon.
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Young ginger has such thin skin, you don’t need to peel it at all.
You’ll need a paring knife to cut away the peel.
Scrape the edge of the spoon against the ginger to peel off the skin.
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Work your way around the ginger root, peeling only as much as you think you will use.
(The ginger will last longer if it is stored with the peel on.)
Ginger is quite fibrous.
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The fibers are in the direction of the root of the ginger and its lobes.
Slice the peeled area of the ginger root, across the grain of the fibers, into coins.
(Use the coins to makecandied ginger!)
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The easiest way to grate ginger is to keep a knob of ginger wrapped in plastic in your freezer.
Like we do when we slice ginger, grateacrossthe grain of the fibers of the ginger.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
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Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
