The article shares how to make delicious Crystallized Ginger Candy. This Homemade ginger candy with slightly yellow color. It is delicious and good for health.
Benefits of Ginger Root:
Ginger contains important minerals for our body: magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium, and iron, manganese, and selenium. Ginger also contains protein, fiber, vitamins C, E and B6.
Ginger has been a remedy used in Asia for centuries.
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Health Benefits of Crystallized Ginger Candy:
- Activate blood circulation in the body
- Medicine for colds, cold stomach, vomiting, cough with phlegm.
- Reduce muscle cramps,
- Relieve indigestion after eating.
- Reduce fat in blood
- Lower blood pressure.
- Prevention and treatment of heart disease
Who Shouldn’t Take Crystallized Ginger Candy:
For those who are about to have surgery, or have just had surgery
People who are bleeding, have a sunburn.
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Ingredients:
- Young ginger: 1kg (2.2 pounds)
- White sugar: 700g (1.54 pound)
How To Make Crystallized Ginger Candy Step By Step:
1.Preparing Ginger:
- Ginger is washed with water to remove mud.
- If the branch is too large, break it off to make it easier to clean the ginger root.
- Then use a knife or spoon to scrape off the ginger skin.
- Rinse with 3 times of water to clean, let dry
Sliced thin. Thinly slice helpt to make Crystallized Ginger Candy be crispy delicious
2. Soak Ginger:
- We will soak the ginger slides in water for about 1 day.
- Change the water 3 to 4 times.
- At the end of 1 day, rinse the water again to clean ginger
This soaking processing is intended to reduce the bitter and pungent taste of ginger.
At the same time, the starch in ginger will be reduced
3. Boil Ginger:
1st time:
- Bring the pot of water to a boil. Put ginger slides in and boil for 5 minutes.
- Remove the ginger and put into the cold water immediately. This way to whiten ginger
- You can save the ginger broth. It’s delicious to make drink with honey
2nd time:
- This time you will put the ginger from cold water.
- Bring it into boil. Boil the ginger for 10 minutes
- Take out the ginger and rinse with cold water
4. Simmering Processing:
Weigh the ginger. For every 1kg (2.2 pounds) of ginger, 700g (1.54 pound) of sugar is needed
- Pour ginger and sugar into a thick-bottomed pot. Ginger on the bottom, sugar on top
- Put the pot of ginger on the stove, turn on the heat and cook on midium heat for a while until the sugar dissolves
- When the sugar hasn’t dissolved, don’t stir the ginger. If stir, ginger slide will break easily
- When the sugar has dissolves, reduce the heat to low. If you have a big fire, this will make the syrup turn into yellow.
- When the sugar syrup becomes thicker, there will be a slight white coating around the pot.
- You turn off the stove, use 2 Spatulas to continuously stir the ginger candy with 2 hands.
- After a while you will see the sugar dry, clinging a thin layer to the ginger. The rest becomes powdered sugar that falls to the bottom of the pan.
Take out the ginger slices and put them on paper, dry out the ginger candy for 1 day at normal temporature.
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5. Storage:
- You can put Crystallized Ginger Candy in a plastic zipper bag
- Or in glass jars
- If you want to keep it for a long time, put it in the refrigerator.
The ginger candy is very fragrant, has little sugar, and is beautiful golden in color. It’s not difficult to do, right?
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