How to make dried ginger

Dried ginger slices are a common herb for treating cold spleen and stomach, and a necessary means of dry processing when there is too much ginger at home, so how do you make this dried ginger slices? What are the methods of making dried ginger?

Direct drying

Ginger directly sliced and then dried, this is one of the most common methods, many family dry ginger is done in this way, this method is relatively simple, the main need to cut thin slices of ginger, pay attention to uniformity, otherwise the ginger is not easy to dry at the same time, if the slices are too thick, ginger drying time is longer, ginger cells in the water slowly lost over a longer period of time, cell death, so that the sun out of the flesh of the ginger will have a lot of fibrosis, when eating affect the taste.

Salt curing drying

Salt curing and then drying is also a traditional method to dry ginger quickly. Fresh ginger is washed and sliced, salted overnight, and then dried in the sun. After salt curing, most of the water of fresh ginger is directly removed. In addition, salt curing quickly kills the cells of ginger, which can effectively prevent the flesh from fibrillation. The downside is that there is a risk of nitrite in salt-cured products, and the salt also tends to absorb moisture.

Cooked preparation

Like making dried unsalted vegetables, dried ginger can be prepared by boiling water. First, fresh ginger is sliced and then boiled in a boiling water bath until just cooked, usually about 30 seconds, and then fished up and dried in the sun. This method kills the cells quickly and prevents the flesh from fibrillating, but after the boiling water bath, some of the flavor of the ginger is dissolved in the boiling water and is lost.

Steamed and prepared

Chinese medicine edible dried ginger are made by this method, this method of making dried ginger to have the best medicinal effect, and need to be repeatedly steamed, Chinese medicine has nine system of dried ginger. After steaming, the cells of ginger are also killed quickly and the flavor is not lost as badly as in a boiling water bath.

Roasted and dried production

Baked ginger slices are more troublesome, but the advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the external environment, in the absence of the sun can also quickly get dried ginger, but this method is more troublesome, easy to appear baked scorched, and baked dry dried ginger slices of fire is relatively large, the average person can not stand, easy to get fire after consumption.

The choice of ginger when dried ginger slices

1. the production of edible ginger slices is best to use fresh small yellow ginger, the flesh of this ginger is a little older than young ginger, suitable for drying production, young ginger in the drying and dehydration process will become very small piece. 2. the production of Chinese medicine ginger is best to use more than 3 years of planting of old ginger, this ginger after years of precipitation, the nature is milder, suitable for Chinese medicine.