How to Add Grated Ginger to Your Food

Ginger is a spicy root that can be added to your foods in many different ways. It goes great with just about any dishes including meat, vegetables, and even goes great in your drinks such as tea, coffee and juice.

Here are some great ideas to add grated ginger to your food.

Meat and Vegetable Dishes. Grated ginger can be sprinkled onto your meat and vegetable dishes before you cook or bake them. Or, for a stronger taste of ginger sprinkle the ginger on top towards the end of cooking or baking.

Marinades. You can also use grated ginger in your marinades before cooking, baking or barbecuing your food such as meat and vegetables dishes. Simply mix together with some minced garlic, fresh lemon juice, olive oil and a dash of unrefined sea salt. Marinade your favorite foods for about 30 minutes to an hour before cooking. For a sweeter marinade use honey and other fruit juices along with grated ginger, olive oil, and unrefined sea salt.

Salad Dressings. You can easily make you own salad dressing by combining grated ginger with minced garlic, finely chopped cilantro, fresh lemon juice, olive oil, sesame seeds and unrefined sea salt and pepper to taste. It goes well with garden salads as well as green vegetable salads.

Grated ginger can also be sprinkled loose on the salad along with nuts and seeds such as pine nuts, pecans, toasted almonds, sunflower seeds, and sesame seeds.

Baking. If you enjoy baking, then you can also add freshly grated ginger to your cookie, muffin and cake batters before sticking them in the oven. You can substitute fresh ginger for powdered ginger in most recipes. However, you will need roughly 6 times as much fresh ginger as the  powdered stuff.

Tea. Ginger tea is very easy to make. Simply grate some ginger and steep for about 10 minutes. Then add other ingredients such as cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice and a natural sweetener for more flavor. Click here for some tasty ginger tea recipes.

Coffee. Believe it or not but ginger also goes well in your coffee. Simply place the grated ginger in a tea-ball and allow to steep for about 10 minutes.

Lemonade. If you prefer a cool drink, then ginger can also help you to cool down as well. Place the grated ginger in a tea-ball and allow to steep in 3/4 cup of hot water for about 10 minutes. Allow to cool. Once cooled, add fresh lemon juice, agave nectar and pour over ice and enjoy!

Nut Milk. To make nut milk, soak 1 cup of your favorite nuts such as almonds, walnuts or pecans in clean water in the fridge overnight. Then drain and blend with about 4 cups of fresh water. Strain the milk from the fiber using a nut milk bag, and enjoy.

To add ginger to nut milk simply grate the ginger and squeeze the juice from the fiber using a cheesecloth. Then add the juice to your nut milk along with other flavors such as cinnamon, nutmeg or cloves and agave nectar.

Fruit Juices. Ginger is an excellent addition to all of your favorite fruit juices such as pineapples, mangoes, peaches, oranges, apples, bananas, grapes and grapefruit.

Not only can you enjoy a zesty flavor when adding ginger to your foods, but you can also obtain many health benefits from ginger. One of the most common benefit is that it can help you to find relief from an upset stomach, but it can also help to relieve arthritis and fatigue, and fights against cancer and heart disease. Visit The Health Benefits of Ginger for more information on how you can benefit from adding ginger to your food.