Ginger Syrup

Elevate all your favorite cocktails with this easy and dangerously tasty ginger syrup recipe! Just add fresh ginger, sugar, and water, then wait for the magic to happen.

Course Cocktails

Cuisine Cocktails

Keyword flavored simple syrup, ginger infused simple syrup

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings cup

Calories 102kcal

Author Elaine Benoit

Equipment

Ingredients

1 cup ginger root (peeled and sliced)
1 cup water
1 cup sugar

Instructions

Add water and sugar in a medium saucepan.
1 cup water, 1 cup sugar
Peel and chop ginger in pieces and add to the water and sugar. See notes on how to peel the ginger.
1 cup ginger root
Turn the heat under the pan to medium heat. Once it comes to a boil, lower to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes
Place sieve in the glass bowl and line it with the cheesecloth. Carefully pour the contents of the pan into the sieve. After the liquid drains from the ginger, toss the ginger in the garbage.
Pour the ginger syrup either in a bottle or jar.
Use in a delicious cocktail
Enjoy

Notes

How to easily peel ginger

Here's how I do it: Place the root on chopping board, hold one of the ends in the air with the other end rests on the board.
Take a kitchen tablespoon and hold it with the curve of the bowl facing up, scrape the edge of the spoon down the root which causes the ginger skin to flake off.
You can either scrape towards the board or away from the board. I usually do a combination of both.
The reason I do it this way is if you use a peeler or a pairing knife, you end up taking off too much of the flesh of the ginger root.
Try it, you'll see how easy it is.

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