Candied ginger-365 days Chinese healthy food for July 7

January 04, 2020

Candied ginger

Ingredients for candied ginger/ 6 people

400 g fresh ginger

300+ 20 g of sugar

water

achievement

difficulty easy

preparation 10 mn

baking 20 minutes

rest 30 mn

Totaltime 1 h

PREPARATION candied ginger

1Peel the ginger and cut sections of a 1/2 cm. Soak in cold water for 1/2 hour.

2Change the water and bring to boil for 5 minutes, change the water and repeat 2times (3 broths in total), this is the part that allows a bit tedious to have aless pungent ginger.

3Put 300 g sugarwith ginger and cover with water. Bring to boil and leave until the ginger issomewhat translucent, so this is not the case at the end of cooking put alittle water.

Finally candied ginger

Spreadginger and sprinkle remaining 20 gsugar and let dry.

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