Don't be intimidated by all the nooks and crannies and funny shapes of fresh ginger though—you can easily tame it into aromatic slices and easy-to-use small dice with the help of a spoon and a sharp knife.
I'll show you exactly how—just follow the steps below. Before you start cutting fresh ginger , you have to peel it—that thick brown peel is no fun to eat. Because of the weird shape of ginger, the easiest way to peel it is not with a peeler or a knife, but with a small spoon. Yes, ginger skin is annoying to eat, but its thin enough to yield easily to the metal edge of a spoon.
It is okay if there is a dry patch where the root was cut off. Avoid shriveled roots because the juice of the ginger would have dried up. Run the ginger under a tap and rub it well till the dust goes off.
Then pat it dry with a kitchen towel and let it dry. You can leave the cleaned ginger on the counter to dry. Usually, I don't peel the skin if I am using organic ginger. I just clean it well and use it directly for cooking. If it is not organic, I make sure to peel the ginger before using it. The easiest way to peel ginger is to use the back of a spoon or peeler. You can also use a knife to peel the ginger, but you will end up peeling too much of the flesh along with the skin.
The spoon's curved edge will help in peeling the skin off quite easily. In case you find it difficult, just soak the piece of ginger in warm water for a few minutes to soften the skin. But if you are in a hurry or need things done quickly, then you can use the peeler. The peeler will scrape off a thicker layer, adding some wastage. But if the ginger is unruly or crooked, then peeler is more convenient to remove them.
The one great thing about ginger is that you can use it as the recipe calls for it. You can make it as a paste for curries, chop for a stir-fry or grate for baking. My favorite way is to grate the ginger for a curry or my afternoon tea.
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When it comes to cooking at home, one of the biggest obstacles we all face is time—no one ever has enough of it. So, do you have to peel ginger? Freeze your ginger! Peel it will a spoon! Use a vegetable peeler to awkwardly work around nooks and crannies, wasting a ton of usable ginger in the process! But when did we start peeling ginger in the first place?
The skin is paper-thin, but nearly every recipe that calls for fresh ginger says it needs to be peeled. But no one ever gives a reason. So why exactly did I stop bothering? The first was cookbook author Alison Roman, while making her internet-famous chickpea stew in a New York Times Cooking video. Because I never peel ginger. Someone just decided one day, like, gotta take the peel off, and then everyone started wasting their time with a spoon.
When really you could just eat it and you would never know it was there. I simply skipped the peeling process, cutting the ginger into planks, then matchsticks, then mincing it. I also made a pureed carrot-ginger soup and grated the ginger directly into the pot with a microplane. The results? If you need more evidence than that, Baz has outlined a few more points that might have you convinced. Not only do you save time or your delicate fingertips, but you also reduce food waste because you use the whole root.
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