It will reduce excess body weight, normalize blood insulin levels, relieve muscle pain after training, help fight viruses and germs in the autumn and winter, freshen in heat and warm in the cold, and according to some scientists, even prevent the development of cancer - all this ginger drink. There are enough of its options, and below are collected the best of them for every taste.

Ginger Slimming Drink

Any refreshing or warming drink with the addition of ginger root helps to speed up metabolism and better absorption of food. In combination with proper nutrition and physical activity, this contributes to smooth weight loss. One of these fat-burning drinks is spicy masala tea.

To prepare it you will need:

  • 1500 ml of milk with a fat content of 0.5%;
  • 1000 ml of water;
  • 16 - 20 g of black tea;
  • 200 g of fresh ginger;
  • 14 g ground cinnamon;
  • 5 to 7 peas of black pepper;
  • 3 g nutmeg;
  • 2.5 g of vanillin;
  • honey at will and taste.

Tea brewing algorithm:

  1. Turn ginger into small chips. Boil water in a container of suitable displacement, and then transfer the flame level to the minimum.
  2. Add ginger to the liquid along with the rest of the spices. Keep everything on fire for 2 - 3 minutes.
  3. Then pour milk into the spicy composition and fill the tea leaves. Simmer everything at minimum heat for five to seven minutes, after which turn off the heat.
  4. Cover the tea and leave for another quarter hour. Before use, be sure to filter through a frequent sieve.

Ginger and Raspberry Lemonade

How to freshen up on a sultry summer afternoon? You can, of course, cook stewed fruit and berries, which is rich in the hot season, but there is another option.

Quench your thirst and give freshness to delicious lemonade, which added raspberries and ginger root.

To prepare it you will need:

  • 1500 ml of sparkling water;
  • 300 g of fresh raspberries;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • half a lemon (juice and zest);
  • 20 g of ginger root;
  • 20 g of fresh mint leaves;
  • ice to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Grated peeled ginger root.
  2. Mash washed and dried mint leaves with sugar in a mortar.
  3. Remove the zest from a half of a lemon with a fine grater and squeeze the juice.
  4. Just crush raspberries with a fork so that it softens.
  5. In a jar, mix the prepared ginger, raspberries, mint, zest and lemon juice, sugar. Stir this mixture well and let it brew for half an hour.
  6. In tall glasses at the bottom put two tablespoons of the prepared base, pour in cold soda and mix. Add ice and enjoy a refreshing drink.

Recipe for immunity

In order for the immunity forces to be enough to withstand colds in the cold season, you need to take care of it in advance. Spicy horned root is the best suited for this.

It should take:

  • 400 g of fresh ginger;
  • 200 - 300 g of lemons;
  • 250 g of honey.

Preparation of an immunostimulating cocktail:

  1. Wash lemons in hot water with the hard side of a dishwashing sponge. Then cut the fruits into quarters, so that it is convenient to extract the seeds.
  2. With a thin layer of ginger, cut off the skin and grind the root in a meat grinder. Do the same with lemons, chopping them along with the peel.
  3. Mix lemon-ginger slurry with honey, transfer to a sterile and dry jar, close the lid. First, withstand the mixture for 24 hours at room temperature in a dark place, and then another six days in the refrigerator.

To increase immunity, the workpiece can be consumed by a tablespoon, like ordinary jam. It is good to use it in the form of a drink, pouring a spoonful of the mixture with boiling water or adding to tea.

Cold ginger drink with lemon and honey

If it happened to “pick up” ARVI, then even without pharmaceuticals it will be possible to alleviate its symptoms and help the body cope with the disease one to two days faster with the help of miraculous tea with lemon and ginger.

For the simplest version of its preparation should be prepared:

  • 10 g of peeled and chopped ginger root;
  • ¼ part of a medium lemon (you need juice);
  • 5 to 10 g of honey;
  • 300 - 350 ml of boiling water.

Brewing Method:

  1. At the bottom of the teapot for brewing tea, put the chopped root and pour boiling water over it. Cover the container with a lid and let its contents brew for 5 - 7 minutes.
  2. Squeeze the juice from a quarter of the citrus fruit and, after the specified time, add it to the teapot to the ginger infusion. Let the tea stand for another 10 minutes.
  3. Pour the cups that have not cooled completely yet, adding bee honey to each to taste.

Also, various spices can be added to tea for colds along with ginger: cinnamon, cardamom and even black pepper to enhance the warming effect.

Ginger and Cinnamon Tea

The cleansing properties of the horned root in combination with cinnamon are revealed in a new way. Such tea helps not only to speed up metabolism, but also to beat off cholesterol and normalize blood sugar levels.

One of the components of the drink is tea. You can choose it depending on your preferences (black, green or white), but do not use a packaged product.

Proportions of ginger-cinnamon drink ingredients:

  • 20 g of ginger root;
  • 1 stick or 5 g ground cinnamon;
  • 7 g of loose tea;
  • 500 ml of water.

Cooking order:

  1. Thinly peel the skin from ginger, and chop the root into thin slices.
  2. Prepared horned root and cinnamon pour boiling water and insist for half an hour.
  3. After this, the infusion is filtered through a strainer, slightly heated and tea is brewed with it, as usual.

Drink ginger and cinnamon tea twice a day twenty minutes before meals.

Cooking with mint and cardamom

Ginger, mint and cardamom - a refreshing trio that will help defeat thirst in the hot season, as well as start the self-cleaning processes in the body.

For such a healthy drink you will need:

  • 20 g of ginger;
  • 20 g peppermint leaves;
  • 3 g of cardamom;
  • 85 ml of lemon juice;
  • 50 ml of orange juice;
  • 1000 ml of water;
  • bee honey to taste.

Working process:

  1. Send a teapot with water to the fire so that it has time to boil.
  2. Pure ginger root with mint leaves and cardamom to beat in a blender into a homogeneous gruel.
  3. Then pour the crushed mass with boiling water and leave to infuse for about half an hour.
  4. Then filter the infusion, add to it both citrus juice and honey.

Serve the drink by cooling it well and adding ice and a sprig of mint to the glass.

To decorate a glass for a refreshing ginger drink, it should be dipped a little in water and then in sugar or icing sugar to create the effect of frost or snow.

Refreshing Ginger Ale

At the time of the “dry law” in the USA, this ginger-lemon drink was extremely popular, because, despite some alcohol content, ale was considered not a hop, but a refreshing drink. Now recipes for both home-made recipes are available for both the non-alcoholic version of ginger ale and the carbonated drink due to fermentation.

For the classic version of ginger ale you will need:

  • 100 g of fresh ginger;
  • 2 medium lemons;
  • 250 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of dry yeast;
  • 1800 ml of water.

Cooking sequence:

  1. Grated on a fine grater, mix ginger with sugar and pour 300 ml of boiling water. When the temperature of the mixture drops to 25 - 28 degrees, dissolve dry yeast in it and add the juice squeezed from two lemons.
  2. Gently pour the resulting mixture into a two-liter plastic bottle, add ordinary drinking water, leaving a volume of 2 to 3 cm not filled up to the neck.
  3. Day - two bottles with a must are kept at 18 - 25 degrees, and then another 3 - 5 days in the refrigerator. After that, the ale is filtered and bottled in half-liter sterile glass bottles.

After a few more hours, the ale is ready to eat. But to get a more carbonated drink, add a teaspoon of sugar to each bottle, close the containers tightly with stoppers and keep in a dark place at room temperature. Refrigerate before use.

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