What to do with leftover fresh ginger?
Leftover ginger? Do you sometimes have fresh ginger in your fridge that is slowly but surely rotting away? You bought it because you wanted to cook a certain dish. You may have cooked that dish, but now you have a large amount of ginger left over. And you don’t know what to do with it. I think this has happened to all of us at one time or another. Instead of consigning it to the compost, you can do a lot of fine things with it. Here are some ideas: Ginger water For one liter of water, you need a piece of fresh ginger about 2 cm big. You just…
Ginger – the all-rounder
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Ginger is a perennial plant, about 60-120 cm high with a beautiful flower. It is related to turmeric, galanga and also cardamom. Originally it comes from Asia where it has been cultivated for about 3000 years. Nowadays it is cultivated in most tropical countries. The rhizome has a fresh, lemony, sharp taste and is used in large quantities in Chinese cuisine as well as in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Indonesia. It has also found its way to Europe. It was already known and loved in ancient Rome. Ginger belongs in every curry and in many other spice mixtures and it gives the Ginger Ale and the…
