DIY : How To Make Ginger Drink?

When rain falls and the weather has become cold, a good ginger drinks is sought for to warm the body. Other than because of its unique and delicious taste, ginger drinks also have a lot of benefits such as solving stomach problems.

In between other herbs, ginger is one of the herbs that’s most popular to be processed into traditional remedy for more than a thousand years. This mostly because of it’s benefits in keeping the body’s health.

Understanding the Benefits of Ginger Drinks

Ginger drinks like ginger tea or ginger milk have been known for its benefits as a body warmer and healer for stomach problems especially nausea. This plant have also been known to contain laxative and natural antibiotics.

But it’s not the extend of the benefits of ginger drink. There are a lot more to it that you as a reader should know of with them being:

1. Reduces allergic reactions

A study revealed that ginger drinks can help reduces allergic reactions. This is because the anti-inflammatory property this plant has that helps reducing inflammation caused by allergies.

2. Helps losing weight

Consuming ginger drinks is one of the ways to efficiently naturally lose weight. Even though this claim needs to be researched further, drinking warm ginger tea can indeed makes you feel full and satisfied

3. Ease the pain from menstruation

A study has shown that ginger drinks can help reducing the pain from menstruation. There are even some studies that said the effectiveness ginger drink in reducing pain from menstruation rivals even those from pain relievers.

4. Prevent the risk of heart diseases

Many researches have shown that the antioxidant, mineral and amino acid in ginger helps prevent heart diseases.

Consuming this drink also increases the blood’s circulation, reducing cholesterol, epigastrium pain, preventing heart attack and reduces blood pressure. 

How to Make Various Ginger Drinks

There are a lot of ways to make ginger drinks or ginger tea, starting from the simple ones by boiling ginger in water, to the more complex one by blending boiled ginger water with other ingredients

Here are some instructions on how to make ginger drinks that you can try yourself:

1.         Milk Ginger Drink

 

This drink is suited to be consumed early in the morning or during cold weather to warm the body, it also helps that the instruction to make one is very simple and easy.

Prepare these ingredients:

•           Fresh milk

•           Ginger

•           Lemongrass

•           Pandan leaves

How to make:

•           Cook the first milk in hot water

•           Mix ginger, lemongrass, and pandan leaves into it

•           Wait until it’s boiling.

•           Filter and adds sugar as needed.

 

2.         Ginger lemongrass drink

The next one is ginger lemongrass. This drink gives the drinker a very unique sour taste with very appealing lemongrass scent. It’s also simple to make.

Prepare these ingredients:

•           5 cm of red or white ginger

•           1 lemongrass stalk

•           500 ml of water

•           1 tbs of lime water

•           3 tbs of honey

How to make:

•           Ground the red or white ginger with 1 stalk of lemongrass

•           Prepare 500 ml of water to heat

•           Mix ginger and lemongrass in it

•           Also add lime water

•           Cook the whole thing until it smells delicious

•           Lift and serve, adds 3 tbs of honey as sweetener

3.         Ginger lemon drink

The third drink in our menu is lemon ginger. It has a unique taste from the acid in lemon, and not only is it fresh, this drink is very beneficial because of it’s high vitamin C and because of it, it can also increase your body immunity.

Prepare these ingredients:

•           1 ginger

•           1 lemon

•           Half block of palm sugar

•           300 ml of water

How to make:

•           Peel the ginger thoroughly and then wash and smash it. Heat the water and boil the ginger inside, remember not to do it until boiling, just hot is enough.

•           Comb the palm or brown sugar that has been prepared and put inside glass

•           Slice the lemon and puts into glass

•           Pour the ginger water slowly and it’s ready to be served

 

4.         Ginger cinnamon ice

Prepare these ingredients:

•           2 barks of cinnamon

•           Small ginger or other kinds of ginger

•           1 tbs of sugar

•           500 ml of water

How to make:

•           Clean all of the ingredients and proceeds to smash the ginger

•           Prepare water and boil the ginger

•           Add sugar and cinnamon, boil until the colour turns brownish

•           After deemed cooked enough, pour in a glass and add ice suiting one’s taste.

•           Serve and enjoy.

Ginger drinks can provide many benefits to our body. But even so, it’s best to console with your doctor before consuming these safe ginger drinks. Because if done overboard these ginger drinks can cause stomach bloating and epigastrium pain instead.

5.    Lemongrass Ginger Drink #2

Follow the steps.

Prepare

- 500 ml of water

- 3-4 lemongrass 

- 150 grams sugar or according to taste

- salt sufficiently 

How to make lemongrass ginger:

All ingredients are boiled, then after boiling and the water is slightly reduced, remove from heat and it's ready to serve.

6.     How To Make Ginger Milk Drink #2

Ingredients:

- 1 liter of fresh milk

- 100 grams of ginger

- 1 clove

- 50 grams sugar

- 1 cm cinnamon

How to make ginger milk:

- Boil fresh ginger and milk over low heat, stirring constantly. Continue until it boils

- Add cloves and cinnamon to the boiled milk with ginger, mix well.

- The next step is to add sugar. Stir well and continue to boil all the ingredients until the sugar dissolves.

- add sugar if it's not sweet enough. Remove the cooked ginger milk mixture, strain it and it's ready to serve.

Also Read: Type Of Ginger, Benefits of Ginger. 

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