Spice up your beverages and desserts! This delicious ginger-spiced simple syrup is perfect for infusing beverages and sweet treats with intense, natural ginger flavor.
Mr. B and I love fresh ginger. When we discovered how easy it is to make homemade ginger syrup, and this delicious condiment immediately became a new favorite among our kitchen staples.
How to Make Simple Syrup with Fresh Ginger
Put 3 cups of water and all the sliced ginger in a blender and blend until ginger is chunky smooth.
Pour the blended mixture into a large saucepan. Stir in the remaining 3 cups of water and the sugar, and bring to a boil over medium heat.
Reduce to low and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and allow the syrup to cool in the pan.
Line a sieve with two to three layers of cheesecloth and strain syrup. Squeeze the cheesecloth bag tightly to get out all the gingery goodness.
Pour syrup into containers and refrigerate or freeze.
How to Use Ginger Spiced Simple Syrup
- Ginger ale: add 1 tablespoon of Ginger syrup to a glass of club soda or seltzer water and make your own ginger ale.
- Ginger Lemonade
- Ginger Iced Tea
- Ginger Apple Juice
- Ginger Ice Cream - just drizzle a couple of tablespoons into the ice cream mix before you freeze it.
- Raspberry-Ginger Butterscotch Sundae
- Ginger Peaches
- Ginger Yogurt - add a teaspoon or two to a cup of yogurt. Vanilla, peach, and raspberry all taste great this way!
Finally, one of Mr B's favorite ways to use ginger syrup is in a whiskey ginger!
FAQs & Expert Tips
Ginger Syrup makes a unique, wonderful hostess or party gift during the holiday season! Attach a tag labeling what's inside, along with a few recipes or ideas for using it.
Ginger syrup should be refrigerated in an air-tight container. Properly stored, ginger syrup will last about a month.
You can also freeze ginger syrup. Frozen, it will stay good for 6 months or more.
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Ginger Spiced Simple Syrup
Equipment
- 1 Medium Stockpot
Ingredients
- 6 cups water
- 6 cups white sugar
- 1 pound ground ginger sliced
Instructions
- Put 3 cups of water and all the sliced ginger in a blender and blend until ginger is chunky smooth.
- Pour the blended mixture into a large saucepan. Stir in the remaining 3 cups of water and the sugar, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Allow the syrup to cool in the pan.
- Line a sieve with two to three layers of cheesecloth and strain syrup. Squeeze the cheesecloth bag tightly to get out all the gingery goodness.
- Pour syrup into containers and refrigerate or freeze.
Notes
Ginger syrup should be refrigerated in an air-tight container. Properly stored, ginger syrup will last about a month. You can also freeze ginger syrup. Frozen, it will stay good for 6 months or more.
Nutrition
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Tim Seabrook says
Always good to come across new recipe ideas and blending the ginger before cooking it is certainly a first and something I will try.
The sugar content is a little high for my tastes though as an alternative, a 2:1 ratio of water to honey is just as effective, gives it a naturally sweet flavour and improves the consistancy of the syrup.
Alexandria Williams says
I've never been the biggest fan of ginger, however, I think this would be great to make for our homemade moscow mules!
Renée ♥ says
It's great for mules. You can balance the ginger to your tastes instead of relying on finding the right ginger beer.
candy says
I find little bite of ginger syrup goes a long way. Has a great taste and so useful.
Sloan Johnson says
Looks amazing! I'm going to try making a batch this weekend!
Melinda says
Oh, I'm definitely going to do this. My husband LOVES ginger and would go wild for this treat!
Sarah says
I wanted to make something like for my birthday last year. I ended up only making a pomegranate syrup. It was really yummy. I will have to try both this year.
Marlynn @UrbanBlissLife says
Renee, I love this! I, too, am a huge fan of ginger and use it in so many dishes and smoothies, but never thought to make my own ginger syrup. Adding this to my "gotta make" list!
Kristi says
This is exactly what I need right now! Thank you! I'm going to try to make some this weekend!