How to pickle young ginger

Ginger is a perennial herb. Its rhizome can be used as medicine. Ginger is also a seasoning and can be used in food. Ginger contains an ingredient called gingerol, as well as physiologically active substances such as gingerol. Ginger also contains protein, vitamins and a variety of trace elements. Ginger can enhance immunity, replenish qi, and prevent colds. Pickled shredded ginger is a very popular way to eat it. How to pickle shredded ginger? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. How to pickle shredded ginger?

Material

300g young ginger, 10g salt, salt to taste, 100g granulated sugar, 200cc white vinegar, 150cc water

practice

1. Remove the rough and hard parts of the young ginger, wash and drain.

2. Put the young ginger from step 1 into a mixing bowl, add the salt in the ingredients and mix well. Marinate for about 5 hours, then rub out the bitter water with your hands and drain the water.

3. Soak the ingredients prepared in step 2 in cold boiled water for about 3 hours, then pour out the water and drain.

4. Take a small pot, add water and bring to a boil, then add salt and fine sugar and cook until dissolved, wait until cool, add white vinegar and mix well, take a glass jar, put the young ginger from step 3 in, then add sweet and sour sauce and seal the lid. It will be ready for about 10 days.

2. Ginger Benefits

1. Antioxidant: The structures of gingerol and diphenylheptane compounds contained in ginger have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects. Eating ginger regularly can resist aging, and the elderly can remove age spots by eating ginger regularly.

2. Appetite-stimulating and spleen-strengthening, promoting appetite. In the hot summer, the secretion of saliva and gastric juice in the human body will decrease, thus affecting appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal motility and increase appetite.

3. Prevent heatstroke, reduce body temperature and refresh the mind. Eating some ginger in hot weather can stimulate, promote sweating, reduce body temperature and refresh the mind. For patients with general symptoms of summer heat, such as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness, nausea, etc., drinking some ginger soup can strengthen the stomach, refresh the mind, and wake up the brain.

4. Ginger can kill bacteria, detoxify, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It can act as an antibiotic, especially against Salmonella. In hot temperatures, food is easily contaminated by bacteria, which grow and multiply quickly, easily causing acute gastroenteritis. Eating a moderate amount of ginger can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Ginger extract has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungi and killing Trichomonas vaginalis, and can treat various carbuncles and sores. In addition, ginger water can be used to gargle to treat bad breath and periodontitis.

5. Antibacterial and disease prevention, treatment of enteritis: Dried ginger powder can relieve the symptoms of motion sickness such as headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc., with an effective rate of about 90%, and the efficacy can last for more than 4 hours. Eating ginger raw can also prevent motion sickness and seasickness, and has a significant anti-sickness effect.

3. Do not eat together

1. Ginger + wine: It is easy to get angry and cause constipation. Ginger should not be consumed with wine. Both ginger and wine are warm, spicy and irritating foods. Eating them together can easily cause internal heat and dryness, and in severe cases, it can even lead to constipation.

2. Ginger + rabbit meat: can easily cause diarrhea. Ginger should not be eaten with rabbit meat. Rabbit meat is cold and sour, while ginger is spicy and hot. The two have opposite tastes. Eating them together can easily cause diarrhea, so ginger and rabbit meat should not be eaten together.