Description
- Dry ginger powder is utilized as a spice in curries, gravies and marinades.
- Famously known as the ''baker's choice'', dry ginger powder is widely used to add flavour to gingerbread.
- Added along with turmeric, cinnamon and cloves, one can make ginger tea.
- Used in marinades for tandoori starters.
- Used to flavour ginger cookies and candies
- A must-have ingredient in our pantry, ginger is one common ingredient used in almost every dish we cook.
- Fresh ginger is known as adrak in Hindi, and dry ginger powder is known as 'Sonth' in Hindi, 'Sonti' in Telugu, 'Sonth' in Bengali and 'Soonth' in Gujarati.
- The dry ginger powder comes from fresh ginger roots that are dried. It is a well-made off-white brownish powder that possesses a sharp flavour and a distinct aroma.
- Ginger root comes from the Zingiber officinale plant, and it has been used in Chinese and Indian medicine for thousands of years