Home Made Ginger Shots Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Ingredients Needed
- 120g/4ozs fresh ginger root, peeled
- 1 cup/250ml/8.8flozs lemon juice
- 200ml/7flozs coconut water or apple juice (other juices also work)
- 50g/1.7ozs honey (optional, can omit or reduce if using a juice)
- 50ml/1.7flozs apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric powder
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Step 1 - Chop up the ginger root roughly and add to a high speed blender or Thermomix along with the lemon juice, coconut water, honey, apple cider vinegar and turmeric. Process for 30 seconds on high speed. Thermomix directions: 30 seconds, speed #9. Make sure to whisk in the honey that may gather at the bottom of the bowl. Strain into a jug through a mesh strainer pressing down on the ginger to release the juice. Store in the fridge in an airtight bottle for up to 4-5 days.
Storage Tips
Store in the fridge in an airtight bottle for up to 4-5 days.
Personal Note
While I don't do new years resolutions and don't start a particular eating regime at the beginning of the year, I have really taken to making these ginger shots. It actually started just after Christmas when we were eating a lot of rich food and has gone through New Years and into 2025. For NYE this year we did a bit of a hers and his NYE. Mr NQN knows that I like to do things while he would rather see in the new year by relaxing at home, maybe sleeping or playing chess. So that afternoon we went out to a dessert bar in the city for lunch which was a "me" activity.
Then we went home after collecting some groceries from the store which was a Mr NQN activity. We ate sushi and hwachae and I made a dry ginger lemonade by adding these ginger shots to sparkling water. It was all very sedate. By the time 9pm rolled around we were all on the bed upstairs with the dogs. Thankfully neither Teddy nor Milo are bothered by fireworks. The first time they heard them we made sure not to react at all and we acted as if we hadn't heard anything. They craned their neck to look at us and seeing us not react made them not react. It was actually quite nice to watch movies and see the fireworks from our bedroom windows (there is one advantage to having a glass box for a bedroom!).
Bonus: no hangover the next day!
So tell me Dear Reader, what did you do on NYE? What is your ideal NYE evening?