Healthy Ginger Juice, Gnamakoudji or Tangawizi

The below recipe is what my maternal grandma will always make her grandkids as healthy drink to boost our immunity. This drink is in fact believed to have tremendous health benefits in several  communities. Let see below some of these benefits.

Benefits of ginger drink:

This drink is known to help reduce pain and inflammation. It also helps ease heartburn. Gnamakoudji is known to prevent and treat colds, tonsillitis and also helps reduce hair loss.

The drink is known to help with weight loss by curbing appetite and burning fat with its thermogenic effect.

Ginger drink help improve circulation and with its diuretic property helps reduce water retention.

Nonetheless in everything moderation is key, as for some people too much ginger can increase heart rate and cause heart palpitation.

How to peel ginger root:

Making this recipe is so easy but peeling fresh ginger root is the dreaded part. In my case I gave the ginger roots to my kids to peel with spoons like my mom taught me, one of the many benefits of having people around for forced labor lol.

Once the ginger is clean thoroughly with brush and rhizome removed, immerse it in water for about 10minutes. The skin will come off easily when you scrap ginger skin holding on firmly to the inside of spoon.

Knife and peeler can also be used to remove ginger skin with extreme carefulness.

So for our recipe, I am not using sugar, I am optionally substituting the sugar with fresh pineapple juice. Below is what we need:

• Clean ginger root
• Peeled pineapple
• Juice of 1 lime
• water
• Sugar (optional)

For tool a blender and cheese cloth work great, but I am using a juicer today.