The availability of ginger on the shelves of supermarkets is determined by seasonality, its price also varies. If you managed to get fresh root for the future, keep it fresh in the fridge will be only a couple of weeks. In this case, there is a solution - drying ginger.
Most often in cooking ginger is used in a hammer form. Ground spice is a grayish yellow powdery powder.
Differences in chemical composition from pickled and fresh root
Dried | Marinated | Fresh | |
Calorie content (Kcal) | 335 | 51 | 80 |
Vitamins (mg) | |||
K | 0,8 | - | 0,1 |
C | 0,7 | 12 | 5 |
B6 | 0,626 | - | 0,16 |
B5 | 0,477 | - | 0,203 |
Choline | 41,2 | - | 28,8 |
B2 | 0,17 | 0,19 | 0,034 |
B1 | 0,046 | 0,046 | 0,025 |
Beta carotene | 18 | - | - |
A | 30 | 0,015 | - |
Minerals (mg) | |||
Zinc | 3,64 | 4,73 | 0,34 |
Selenium | 55,8 | - | 0,7 |
Copper | 0,48 | - | 0,226 |
Manganese | 33,3 | - | 0,229 |
Iron | 19,8 | 10,5 | 0,6 |
Phosphorus | 168 | 74 | 34 |
Sodium | 27 | 32 | 13 |
Magnesium | 214 | 92 | 43 |
Calcium | 114 | 58 | 16 |
Potassium | 1320 | 1,34 | 415 |
The benefits and harms of the product
For good health
Benefit:
- The active ingredients in dried ginger are able to effectively fight viruses and inflammations.
- Possess antioxidant properties.
- Dried ginger inhibits harmful bacteria.
- It has an expectorant and analgesic effect.
- Strengthens the immune system.
- Improves memory.
- Thins the blood.
- Contributes to the destruction of cancer cells.
Harm:
- Dried ginger warms up the body and at elevated temperatures, its use must be abandoned.
- For people with heart disease, weight loss based on dried ginger should be carried out strictly after consulting a doctor.
Slimming
What is useful:
- Dried ginger root powder is able to normalize metabolic processes in the body.
- To speed up the metabolism, in consequence of which those extra pounds are burned.
Harm:
- Despite all the beneficial properties of the dried rhizome, there are contraindications to its use for nursing mothers and women in the last months of pregnancy.
- It is necessary to refrain from such a method of losing weight to those who suffer from a stomach ulcer or other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Step-by-step instructions on how to dry at home
With electric dryers
- Rhizome cut into small thin plates.
- Put on the grid electric dryers at a short distance from each other.
- Choose a power of sixty degrees.
- Dry six to nine hours.
- In order for the workpiece to dry evenly, the trays of the dryer periodically need to be swapped.
In the oven
In addition to electric dryers, ginger root can be dried in the oven. For this you need the following:
- Cover the baking sheet with baking paper.
- Put slices of chopped ginger.
- Heat the oven to fifty degrees. If the oven gas and track the exact temperature is not possible, then you just need to put the burner on the minimum fire.
- In these conditions, the root should spend up to two and a half hours.
- The drying itself is carried out with the oven door open.
- Next, the temperature should be increased to seventy degrees and dry ginger until ready.
Important! If the oven has a convection function, you need to turn it on. The total cooking time for dried ginger is five to seven hours.
How to use the beneficial properties of the root?
Slimming
Very effective in the fight against obesity ginger tea. For its preparation, dried slices must be ground into powder. The main thing in applying ground root is to gradually increase the dose of dry active substance. And start taking tea in small portions, which need to be increased over time.
Tea is prepared as follows:
Ingredients:
- Green tea - three tablespoons.
- Dried ginger root powder - two tablespoons.
- Cinnamon - to taste.
Cooking:
- Brew tea in the usual way in a volume of one liter.
- The resulting broth strain and pour into a saucepan.
- Stir in the infusion of ginger.
- Cinnamon lovers can add a bit of it in the finished composition.
Admission course:
- You need to drink the drink for ten days just before eating to reduce your appetite, and then take the same break.
- It is not recommended to drink such tea at night - it has a strong tonic effect.
- If you take herbal extracts in parallel, ginger tea will increase their effect on the body.
You can not use more than two liters of the drink per day and you should refuse to take the fresh brewed infusion, even if it was kept in the refrigerator.
Also, detoxification and, as a result, weight loss, is well affected by water mixed with powdered dry ginger and lemon. The combination of active substances of ginger with vitamin C is a powerful fat burner.
From cough
With a strong cough, the following recipe is effective.
Ingredients:
- One pinch of ground ginger powder.
- Tablespoon of onion juice.
Cooking: Mix the ingredients together until smooth.
Treatment: The finished composition is taken twice or three times a day for a teaspoon.
From cold
Ingredients:
- Half a liter of hot milk.
- Chopped dried ginger - one teaspoon.
Cooking:
- Dry ginger brew hot milk.
- Cool it down.
Treatment: The composition should be consumed three tablespoons three times a day.
Important! If the cold is accompanied by acute stages of chronic diseases that have made themselves felt, before applying ginger, assess whether it will not harm.
For the general strengthening of the body
Regular the use of dried ginger has a beneficial effect on immunity. To some extent, it can be considered a convenient analogue of garlic, because there is no sharp smell after it.
Ginger has the effect of accumulation, if you include it in the diet on an ongoing basis, while respecting the dosage, you can forget about ailments forever.
Tonic recipe based on dried ginger:
Ingredients:
- Fresh lemons - four.
- Dried ground ginger - two hundred grams.
- Liquid honey - two hundred grams.
Cooking:
- Grind the lemons with a meat grinder or blender.
- Add ginger, mix.
- The resulting slurry pour honey and let it brew.
- The resulting drug retains its medicinal properties when stored in the refrigerator for no longer than a month.
Application: You can use the prepared mixture regularly, adding to the tea and making periodic breaks in the reception. Especially hard you can lean on the healing composition during the flu epidemic.
The product prepared according to this recipe is added only to warm or cooled tea, as the composition contains honey, which, when combined with hot water, loses its beneficial properties.
About the beneficial properties of ginger root known since ancient times. In today's medicine, it has found wide application. Nutritionists actively recommended the use of rhizomes in dried form., because that is how its active substances are better absorbed by the cells.