Name: Ginger Concentrate
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1/2 pound fresh ginger (peeled and chopped); 1 cup water; 1 lime (juiced); 1/2 cup sugar

Ginger Concentrate

Make this concentrate to make a really spicy, low sugar ginger beer easily. Most ginger beer requires a fermentation period, but this version works just as well and allows you to combine seltzer with the concentrate for a quicker, very flavorful beverage. Recipe is adapted from CookieandKate.com.

Ginger Concentrate

Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

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Ingredients

1/2 pound fresh ginger peeled and chopped
1 cup water
1 lime juiced
1/2 cup sugar

Instructions

In a blender or food processor, process the ginger and 1/2 cup water for a few minutes until it turns to liquid. Strain the juice into a large bowl. Transfer the ginger pulp back to the blender or food processor and add another 1/4 cup of water. Puree again, it shouldn’t need as long and strain again. Do this one more time with another 1/4 cup of water. Press on the solids with the back of a spoon to get out all the flavor.
Discard the solids, pour the ginger liquid back into blender with lime juice and sugar, process for 30 seconds.
Use about 2 ounces of the concentrate to 8 ounces of seltzer to make a ginger beer to enjoy on it’s own or in a flavorful cocktail.
Refrigerate up to 3 weeks. Shake before serving.