I haven't showed you guys a recipe in a while,
so because it is around christmas time
and it is a cold weather time of year,
I wanted to share one of my favorite things to make
that I always make in November, December
and all the way through the winter.
It's a ginger elixir.
It's incredible for digestive issues,
it's also incredible for boosting your immune system.
The way that we do this recipe
is that we start with about eight cups of water.
You can pour those eight cups of water in your pan.
You can just start that on low heat.
Oh, for about eight cups of water
you're gonna need about that much ginger.
And the first thing you're gonna do is to peel that ginger.
Now that your ginger is peeled,
you're going to take the smallest size of grate
that you would use,
and you're going to just grate the ginger.
What it comes out looking like is like that.
You're gonna grate all of your ginger
and then you're gonna put it in that water.
And once you put it in the water,
you're not going to boil it.
If you cook this too hot,
it destroys a lot of the benefits that are in the ginger itself.
So, you're just gonna cook it
until it's about like, at steaming level.
It's not even hard boiling, like, it's not simmering,
it's not doing any of that yet.
It's just hot and steaming.
And you're gonna keep it like that
at that level, for about five minutes or so.
And then you're gonna turn off the heat.
And you're going to leave that entire mix
just like it is.
You can take it off the stove or leave it on the stove...
you're just gonna leave it like that
for about 15 minutes.
So what we've done is we've cooked this
for about five minutes
at a very very low heat, remember?
Without boiling it,
and then we have left it for about 15 minutes.
This is what it looks like.
At this stage, you can add other medicinals.
One of the things I'm gonna tell you to do
is to put two pinches
of pink Himalayan salt.
That amplifies the medicinal properties of this.
You're also gonna do four lemons.
It has to be fresh lemon juice.
Another thing you can do is you can add a few pinches of turmeric.
just make sure that if you add turmeric,
you're also adding a little bit of black pepper,
so that it is easy to assimilate into your body.
If you want to get really crazy with things
you can make it taste like crap
by adding some oregano oil.
but those of you who are struggling maybe,
with a cold or with the flu,
if you add oregano oil,
don't do so right now so you ruin the whole batch,
just do it once you add it to your cup.
So, once we've added those things
we're gonna just let it sit here for about two more minutes.
That's about the serving size you want to use for an elixir.
So that I just don't get a mouthful of ginger,
I've got a strainer that I'm going to add to it.
I'm gonna take some of this
put it through the strainer, into this cup.
That's what you're left with.
Full disclosure,
I actually don't like ginger, at all,
as a flavor.
But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it for its medicinal qualities.
That is one of the best things you can get yourself
for cold weather,
it's amazing, like I said, for digestion issues,
so any of you that have tummy troubles
I would try this.
You can have as much of this as you want during the day,
it's not like you can O.D. on this.
I hope you like it.