ginger beer

Easy peasy ginger beer

A real summer refresher

ginger beer

15 mins

Super easy

serves 4

nutrition per serving

73.6

Calories


0.3g

Fat


0.1g

Saturates


6.6g

Sugars


0.8g

Protein


19g

Carbs


of an adult’s reference intake


Recipe From

Happy Days with the Naked Chef

Happy Days with the Naked Chef

Ingredients

. 140g/5oz fresh ginger

. 4 tablespoons muscovado sugar

. 2 to 3 lemons

. 1 litre/1¾ pints soda water or sparkling mineral water

. sprigs of fresh mint

Method

My fresh and summery ginger beer recipe is super quick and easy, with that lovely spiced kick

  1. Ginger beer is one of my favourite things in the world, especially blooming good in the summer when it's getting hot. I can't think of anything more sexy than having a big jug of iced ginger beer on the table with a barbecue on a hot day. The classic real ginger beers use a starter, and these are fantastic but slow, so here's my shortcut for getting amazing results taking hardly any time.
  2. First of all you need to grate your ginger on a coarse cheese grater – you can leave the skin on if you like. Put the ginger with its pulpy juice into a bowl and sprinkle in your muscovado sugar. Remove the rind from 2 of your lemons with a vegetable peeler, add to the bowl, and slightly bash and squash with something heavy like a pestle or a rolling-pin. Just do this for 10 seconds, to mix up all the flavours. Squeeze the juice from all 3 lemons and add most of it to the bowl. Pour in your fizzy water or soda water.
  3. Allow to sit for 10 minutes and then taste. You may feel that the lemons are slightly too sour, therefore add a little more sugar; if it's slightly too sweet, add a little more lemon juice. To be honest, these amounts are always a little variable so just follow your own taste. Pass the ginger beer through a coarse sieve into a large jug and add lots of ice and some sprigs of mint.

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