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Easy peasy ginger beer
A real summer refresher
A real summer refresher
Serves 4
Cooks In15 minutes
DifficultySuper easy
Nutrition per serving
Calories 74 4%
Fat 0.3g 0%
Saturates 0.1g 1%
Sugars 6.6g 7%
Protein 0.8g 2%
Carbs 19g 7%
Of an adult's reference intake
Ingredients
- 140 g fresh ginger
- 4 tablespoons muscovado sugar
- 2-3 lemons
- 1 litre soda water or sparkling mineral water
- a few sprigs of fresh mint
Recipe From
Happy Days with the Naked Chef
Method
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
