What can I do with ginger peelings?

annie123

Made hubby chocy ginger for his birthday, I used 1 & 1/2lbs of ginger, now I have loads of peelings left.

Can I use them for anything?
if not, shall I store them in the freezer till I think of something to do with them? cant bring myself to throw them away.

thanks in advance

greenbee

Use them for ginger/lemon & ginger tea?

Hardup_Hester

I think you can boil them gently in sugar & water to make a ginger syrup.

Seakay

can you share your recipe for choc ginger? It's a favourite treat of mine but rather expensive to buy.

annie123

Its a much stronger taste than the shop stuff because the ginger is so fresh, so don't put loads in your mouth at once!

I used 1 1/2 lbs of ginger
2 cups of sugar
and some plain dark chocolate, don't need much.

• peel the ginger and cut into little pieces, I do strips and chunks (1/4" no bigger chunks takes too long to cook)
• put in pan and boil in water for 1/2 hour till tender
• drain off water
• add 2 cups of sugar to the ginger in the pan over low heat
• stir till bubbles and add a few spoons of water to just cover ginger
• simmer for an hour, ( I stir every 5-10mins) should be just golden in colour
• put some more sugar in a bowl and add ginger so its nicely coated
• THEN EAT WHEN COOL:D
• or melt chocolate and add the now crystillised ginger
• place on grease paper and allow to cool
• THEN EAT GINGER:D

Then ponder on what to do with the peelings:rolleyes:

greenbee

What do you do with the water you boil the ginger in? Presumably it's intensely gingery and delicious?

Bronnie

greenbee wrote: »

What do you do with the water you boil the ginger in? Presumably it's intensely gingery and delicious?

Use it for making sweet and sour sauce

annie123

greenbee wrote: »

What do you do with the water you boil the ginger in? Presumably it's intensely gingery and delicious?

I've always thrown it away:o never thought to use it for anything,
but will try bronnie's sweet and sour sauce idea.:D

freezspirit

I wonder if you could use them to make homemade brew - ginger beer?