Kitchen appliances and utensils: 2 liter saucepan with a lid, stove, knife, cutting board, teaspoon, slotted spoon, tea cup.
Ingredients
Ingredients | amount |
Drinking pure water | 1,5 l |
Ginger root | piece of 4-5 cm |
Lemon | 1-2 slices |
Natural honey | taste |
Step cooking
- Pour clean drinking water (1.5 liters) into the pan and place on the stove to make the water boil. Cut a slice from the root of the ginger (4-5 cm). Peel the cut off root piece from the peel by thinly removing it with a knife, and cut into slices 2-3 mm wide.
- Dip the chopped ginger in boiled water and simmer over low heat for a minimum boil for 3-5 minutes.
- After the time has passed, turn off the fire, tightly cover the pan with a lid and let it brew for 20-30 minutes.
- After insisting, remove the ginger from the pan using a slotted spoon.
- After cooling, ginger tea can be drunk with honey and lemon: cut a ring of lemon and dip it in a cup with non-hot ginger tea, add honey to taste. Remember that the addition of honey and lemon to hot tea will lead to the loss of the beneficial properties of these components. Ready ginger tea should not be stored for more than a day.
How to drink ginger tea
- If you drink ginger tea for the first time, it is recommended to drink no more than 200 ml. In the absence of negative reactions in the following days, you can increase the dose and number of times. Exceeding the norm of 500 ml is not recommended if you do not pursue the goal of losing weight.
- Ginger tea is best drunk in the morning (in the morning), as it has tonic properties. Drinking ginger tea before bedtime will give a boost of energy, and you can not fall asleep.
- With colds, ginger tea is drunk hot, but at a temperature its use is prohibited.
- In order to lose weight, it is recommended to drink ginger tea up to 2 liters per day, but subject to the absence of contraindications.
Contraindications
Before using ginger tea, read the available contraindications:
- bleeding of any etiology;
- allergic reactions to substances and oils that make up ginger root;
- acute diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
- cholelithiasis;
- violations of the liver;
- hypertension and medication for high blood pressure;
- the last months of pregnancy.
Video recipe
How to cook ginger tea, see the video.