How to make pickled ginger

Ginger is a very common ingredient in our daily life. In many cases, people add a few slices of ginger when cooking, which will make the dishes taste better. Pickled ginger is also a common way of eating it. The preparation method is relatively simple. Eating pickled ginger regularly is very helpful to your health. Ginger has the effects of stimulating appetite, relieving vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving colds. Eating ginger will have better effects especially in summer.

Method 1

Ingredients: ginger, sugar, white vinegar

Production steps:

Add an appropriate amount of white sugar (depending on your taste, if you like sour taste, add less sugar, if you like sweeter taste, add more. We never specifically weigh the amount of sugar when making this at home), and pour in enough white vinegar. (The ginger should be enough to cover the young ginger in the bottle). Cover the bottle with a lid and seal it. After marinating for dozens of days to half a month, you can open the bottle and eat it.

Method 2

Ingredients: 100 kg ginger (peeled) 16 kg salt

Production steps:

Choose young ginger before the White Dew Festival. After selecting fresh ginger with clean water, rub off the skin and put it into a basket. Sprinkle a layer of salt on each layer of ginger, with more salt on the top and less on the bottom. Stir once a day and it will be the finished product after 5 to 6 days.

Method 3

Ingredients: ginger, pepper, salt, star anise

Production steps:

First wash the ginger and dry it. (Do not leave any raw water in it, as it will cause it to bloom). Boil a large bowl of water, let it cool, then pour it into a clean jar, add star anise, peppercorns, and salt, stir well. If you like spicy food, you can add some raw chili peppers. Put the dried ginger in, cover the jar tightly to make sure there is no air leakage, and you can eat it after a few days. You can soak it again next time. The taste is better;

Benefits of eating ginger

1. In summer, bacteria grow and reproduce abnormally actively, which can easily contaminate food and cause acute gastroenteritis. However, eating some ginger or drinking it after brewing dried ginger with boiling water can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Through research, scientists have discovered that ginger can play the role of certain antibiotics, especially against Salmonella. Ginger can also kill oral and intestinal pathogens. Gargling with ginger water to treat bad breath and periodontitis has significant results.

2. In summer, people like to stay cool and like to use fans and air conditioners, which makes it easy for them to catch colds. Drinking some ginger and sugar water at this time will help expel the cold from the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "open up the mind", that is, refresh the mind. If someone faints due to heatstroke in summer, giving the patient a cup of ginger juice can help him wake up quickly. For patients with general summer heat symptoms such as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness and nausea, eating some ginger soup can be very beneficial.

3. There are many ways to eat ginger, such as drinking ginger soup, eating ginger porridge, adding some shredded ginger when cooking, stewing meat and frying fish with ginger slices, and adding some chopped ginger when making flatbreads and dumpling fillings. It can not only make the taste delicious, but also help wake up the stomach and spleen, refresh the mind, promote appetite, aid digestion and help the gastrointestinal tract absorb nutrients.