How to Store Fresh Ginger Root: Food Tip of the Day - Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Fresh ginger root is an essential ingredient in many dishes and an extremely beneficial one in others. Often it is possible to substitute with dried and ground, or even pickled ginger, but as is the case with many ingredients, there truly is no substitute for fresh.

One of the problems with buying fresh ginger root is that we are often required to buy it in the form of a piece many times larger than that which we need at the time. Although it will stay fresh in the refrigerator for some days, unless we intend making a great deal of ginger based dishes in a very short period of time, much of the root will frequently go to waste.

The way in which I get round this problem is simply to peel the whole piece of root, use what I require at the time and place the rest in to the deep freeze in a freezer bag. That way, I can at a later date simply grate the amount which I require with a hand grater and again return what is left to the freezer for another day. Ginger root will store for months in this way and helps us to always have available truly fresh ginger root for whenever we require it, without the drawback of much of it going to waste.