Ingredients #4
Ingredients 1. Ginger Ginger produces a hot, fragrant kitchen spice . Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste. They are often pickled in vinegar or sherry as a snack or cooked as an ingredient in many dishes. They can be steeped in boiling water to make ginger tisane , to which honey is often added; sliced orange or lemon fruit may be added. Ginger can be made into candy, or ginger wine , which has been made commercially since 1740. Mature ginger rhizomes are fibrous and nearly dry. The juice from ginger roots is often used as a seasoning in Indian recipes and is a common ingredient of Chinese , Korean , Japanese , Vietnamese , and many South Asian cuisines for flavoring dishes such as seafood, meat, and vegetarian dishes . Fresh ginger can be substituted for ground ginger at a ratio of six to one, although t...