Ginger powder is a very good product for the digestive system, solving stomach and intestinal problems, enhancing the ability to lose weight, helping skin clear acne and skin protection.
From the past, ginger is considered a valuable remedy for medicine, and later to improve more, people have produced pure ginger powder with the most outstanding effect. Ginger powder has many useful uses for human health, beauty, and how to create this product is not difficult, just a little tricky, you can extract ginger powder at home with effective high results but still meet food safety and hygiene standards. Here, Vincy would like to send you a method of making ginger powder quite simple, let' learn how to make it.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING PURE GINGER POWDER AT HOME
Before doing so, it is very important to search for raw materials, because Chinese ginger appears to be harmful on the market, so you need to be alert to choose the right ginger to bring. High efficiency. For identification, you can observe and detect the following points: For Chinese ginger, it will be smooth, it looks succulent and has little fiber, yellowish color. But for Vietnamese ginger, they have a slightly dark color, extremely aromatic and characteristic flavor, even without cutting, we also feel a distinct aroma from it. Be really alert and choose quality products for yourself, do not want to buy cheap Chinese ginger, because it is a low-quality product, launched to the market with low prices in order to increase profits. To make ginger powder, we follow the steps as follows:
Step 1 : Prepare 8kg of fresh ginger and 1 kg of dried ginger, prefer old ginger because it possesses more essential oils.
Step 2 : Rinse the ginger root and soak in salt water for 10 minutes.
Step 3 : Peel and slice ginger about 3mm thick, not too thin as it will cause loss of essential oil in ginger.
Step 4 : Bring the sliced ginger out to dry.
Step 5 : Use a blender to grind the dried ginger slices.
Step 6 : Use a sieve to remove impurities and collect pure ginger powder.
Step 7 : Put in a covered box, store in a cool and dry place and use it gradually.
*** Notes:
- At step 4, you should do it carefully and make sure that the amount of sliced ginger is dried, because if it is still moist, it will be difficult to preserve, easy to ferment and mold.
- In step 6, if you feel that the ginger powder is still slightly moist, put the product on a piece of foil so that it absorbs moisture before you put it in the box and close the lid.
- For ginger powder produced in distribution places with modern machinery and proper process, the ginger powder can be stored for 1 year. However, with the manual method of extracting ginger powder at home, the shelf life will be lower, it can only be stored for 6 - 8 months from the date of starting to peel the ginger.
Using ginger powder to cooking
Ginger powder used in dishes such as mixing in rolls, herb cakes, mix mixes to grill vegetables…
Using to replace fresh ginger.
Using ginger powder in life
- Reduce fat: Mix 50 grams of ginger powder and Amla powder, brake to drink water every morning to help drain the excess fat accumulated in the body.
- Treatment of bloating and diarrhea: Made into a paste and applied to the throat
- Relieve headaches, dizziness, vomiting: Make dough and apply on the forehead.
- Cure cold, sore throat, cough: Get some pure ginger powder and buffalo milk, mix with jaggery and eat at night.
- Relieve stomachache: Mix 2 tablespoons of ginger powder with a little lemon juice and salt, drink this mixture to reduce stomach symptoms.
- Dental treatment: Mix 1 teaspoon of ginger powder with garlic juice to gargle, it works to reduce toothache and overcome halitosis.
- Relieve arthritis: Take 10 grams of ginger powder mixed with 5ml castor oil mixed with 400ml of boiled water, use at night for 2 days to cure arthritis
- Detoxify the liver: 2 tablespoons of dried ginger powder, 1 spoon of fresh lemon and 1 spoon of mint juice, drink it to purify the liver once a day.
- Stroke prevention: Mix 3 tablespoons of ginger powder and 300ml of warm water and drink before go to bed.
- Increase the immune system: Eat directly 1 spoon of ginger powder mixed with 1 spoon of pure honey..
- Clean the blood: Make tea with 2 spoons of ginger powder and 1 teaspoon of honey
- Antipyretic: 1 spoon of dried ginger powder + with 1 spoon of jaggery sugar + 1 spoon of honey, mixed into a directly eaten mixture to increase the amount of regulatory sweat to reduce fever and eliminate toxins out of the body