root ginger

I bought some more today. Went to weigh it and thought it was a fruit, couldn't find it, so got in a muddle with the machine.
Turns out it's a vegetable.

I keep it in the freezer too. I use it in curries and Chinese dishes, also good with certain steamed vegetables. I have been known to make a hot lemon, honey and ginger drink when I've got a cold. Made it for DH once, he thought it was revolting!

I love Ginger.
I buy fresh ginger from the Asian Supermarket, much cheaper.
I usually peel it and chop it then put it in my hand blender with a little water, blend it down and put it into ice cube trays, then empty the tray once's its set into a large click bag, so that I can use one or two cubes for recipes. I do the same thing with Garlic.
I always have in also a jar of Stemmed Ginger

Favourite recipe at the moment because the weather is so nice is stemmed ginger Panna Cotta with rhubarb compote...

Granma47 - I've been wanting to set up a ginger beer plant and it sounds like it's the same as the one you mention. Do you have a 'recipe' for it please and how do you maintain it? Thanks.

I used to work with a nurse from the Caribbean and she used to make ginger root tea for her little girl if she was poorly with a tummy upset or a cold. She would boil some stem ginger in a saucepan, add brown sugar, let it infuse and strain. Very comforting.

I cook fresh ginger in a sugar syrup or I use crystallised ginger for my favourite dessert. Just stir halved grapes and chopped ginger ( cooked or crystallised) into Greek Yoghurt. It's more flavoursome left to stand for a few hours in the fridge .
Very refreshing.

Oops, forgot to say, sprinkle with lemon juice and some seasoning to taste before steaming.!

Steam salmon fillets with slivers of root ginger and garlic. Add some chopped chilli pepper (optional). Serve garnished with chopped spring onion and coriander or flat leaf parsley. Enjoy!

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Did you know that if you put slices of ginger on a recalcitrant thorn, it will draw it outR It is a powerful antibacterial agent on the skin, cleansing many cuts etc., but absolutely best for drawing out infection in puncture wounds and thorns aforementioned.

I learned a fabulous trick for peeling ginger at the WI Denman College. Just use a teaspoon to scrape the skin off - it is very easy. Give it a try

I love ginger too and use it a lot but my favourite is pickling it like the Japanese slivers that you get with sushi.
Can't remember the recipe offhand but Google Japanese pickled ginger and you'll find it. Very easy to make and lasts for ages in a jar in the fridge. I used a veg peeler to get the paper thin slices required.
It's good as a garnish for all sorts of oriental dishes, not just sushi.

What an inventive lot you are - I shall definitely try some of your ideas. I've only used ginger with lemon for a hot drink and with carrots and apples in the juicer for a cold one. I shall now add it to soup and stir fries.

You don't need to peel it unless the peel is thick; why waste the vitamins that reside in the peel and just under it?

My favourite soup bar none is made with ginger. Chop an onion and fry a bit in butter (I use coconut oil though ) then add some coarsely chopped carrots (again, don't peel), vegetable stock and some fresh ginger (as much as you like) and simmer until carrots are soft.

Add the juice of some blood oranges and a bit of their grated peel. Simmer a bit more, add more stock if necessary, cool a bit, then blend. If greedy, reheat and serve, but I always wait a day because the flavour greatly improves.

This recipe loves tweaking, in both quantities and ingredients. Blood oranges aren't necessary (use ordinary ones ), try fresh turmeric or add a cinnamon stick instead of ginger, chicken stock instead of veg, use less onion or none at all. However you cook it, you're sure to love it!

Peeling root ginger can be a bit of a pain, but not so much if you use a teaspoon to scrape the peel off!
Grannyknot I was obviously a strange child (and a strange adult) as I've always loved ginger in all forms. I must have been the only five year old ever to ask for chocolate ginger for Christmas!

Some good ideas on here. It's always in my fridge drawer, for use in curries and stir fries. It's nice with rhubarb but we don't have rhubarb that often. It's my go-to remedy for colds, made into a tea with honey and lemon. Never thought of using it in soups. There always seemed to be a ginger beer plant on the go at home when I was young; I had one given to me when my kids were young but they weren't that keen on ginger beer. I'd like another one - I think they sell them at Lakeland.

I remember, as a girl, making ginger beer in a jar with a piece of a ginger plant in water which had to be fed with sugar regularly and could be split and passed on to someone else to do the same.

Slice it very thinly and mix with creme fraise, a few herbs, salt and pepper, then spread on top of salmon fillets. Loosely wrap in foil and bake in the oven for 20 minutes or so. Delicious!

I am going to try the soup recipe too. Thanks gw.

I made a good chutney recently (I think it was a BBC recipe) with rhubarb, ginger, apples etc. It was quick and easy.

I use it in everything, from soups to stewed rhubarb, rubbed on gammon roasts to casseroles and home baked beans.
As I'm trying to lose weight [aren't we all?], instead of the usual soup in a cup, I have half a veggie stock cube with three or four slices of fresh ginger. Refreshing, warming and delicious.
it is very good for your digestion, and is blood cleansing too, so use it!

Good in stir fries and drinks and of course biscuits ? Also good for nausea and travel sickness I love ginger beer as well ?☕️

When my kids were teenagers they loved going to the fair when it came to town , but the rides always made them sick . I used to send them off with a stick of raw ginger to lick after they came off and felt queasy , it worked everytime . Works for sickie bed people too .

Rhubarb and ginger cake, and homemade lemon cordial with ginger, both sound very nice.

Stir fries, curries, sweet and sour, soups! I use it a lot

Must say I'm tempted by that soup recipe too. I've got most of the ingredients, so think I'm going to try this over the weekend.

That soup does sound nice.