For a twist in your regular morning beverage, put some ginger in your smoothie. Ginger has a strong flavor so make sure not to overload it in your smoothie. Ginger tastes great with a banana smoothie, spinach, carrot, and apple smoothies.
To hydrate yourself and have the nutrition of ginger and lemon you can add lemon and ginger to the water. Peel and cut a few slices of ginger and slice a lemon. Add them to a jug of water and leave the jug in the fridge overnight. Drink the water in the morning and throughout the day. The ginger and lemon water helps with weight loss, reduces bloating, and boosts the immune system.
For those who love cookies, ginger cookies are a healthier alternative. Instead of munching sugar cookies, you can switch to ginger cookies. It is an easy and effective way to add ginger to your diet. The sweetness of sugar and bitterness of ginger balances the taste and makes the ginger cookies delicious. There are tons of ginger cookie recipes that you can use to make cookies, but I like to add ground ginger to the same easy-to-make sugar cookie recipe.
Consuming Ginger every day can help improve your health because it reduces inflammation, kills germs, and fights cancer-causing molecules. When I was young, I only drank ginger tea when I had sore throats and nausea. The flavor it adds to the tea is delicious and it can easily spice up any food so I thought why not use it in our diet every day. Now, I like to drink ginger is not just my green or black tea but also in coffee and milk tea.
I learned about ginger root tea from my parents. My mother would prescribe it for anything from an upset stomach to a bad headache. While I’m sure there are many ways of making ginger tea, my family always took the easiest approach: cut about an inch of ginger root in thin slices and place it in a cup of boiling water. Let the mixture sit for a few minutes before drinking. If you’d like to keep the pieces of ginger out of the water, you can place them in a tea ball.