Ginger candied fruit

Probably, many of us are familiar with the taste of gingerbread and cookies, but such a useful plant as ginger is also the starting material for the preparation of another wonderful natural treat - ginger candied fruit.

Ginger candied fruit is truly unusually valuable for human health and at the same time a delicious dessert. Ginger candied fruits, which have a lot of useful properties, can be found on sale today - they are presented in a grocery store in the department of nuts and dried fruits. However, you can easily cook this magnificent dish at home.

In order for you to have tasty and natural ginger candied fruits, you need to have only three products at hand - fresh ginger root, water and granulated sugar. First of all, the ginger root is cleaned and cut into thin slices, after which it folds into a pan and poured with water so that the liquid completely covers the wedges. Next, you need to put the dishes on fire and boil the ginger slices for about half an hour to remove excessive burning and softening of the product.

The water is drained and sugar syrup is prepared, in which future ginger candied fruits are placed by boiling. The slices are simmered with constant stirring until the liquid evaporates completely.

Ginger petals collapse piece by piece in sugar sand and spread out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. After drying, ready-made ginger candied fruit can be stored for about three months in a hermetically sealed container.

Interestingly, the bitterness that many do not particularly like in recipes for tea with ginger is not felt at all in ginger candied fruits. They can be eaten just like that with hot drinks, added to home-baked goods (muffins or cookies), only after grinding. The calorie content of ginger candied fruits is about 216 kcal, which are contained in one hundred grams of this unusually useful product.

Benefits of ginger candied fruit

By the way, ginger candied fruit is not just a sweet dish, but a universal natural tablet that can help with colds, sore throats, as well as various diseases of the upper respiratory tract.

The benefits of ginger candied fruits are the ability of this product to improve appetite, accelerate metabolic processes, and activate the production of gastric juice, which is important for children and elderly people. In addition, a useful property of ginger candied fruit is known, which is due to its effective laxative effect. Ginger itself and products based on it are advised to be used for indigestion, stomach ulcer, colds and allergic phenomena.