Need an easy immunity boost without a daily hassle? These homemade frozen ginger shot ice cubes are packed with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, and they taste so much fresher than store-bought ones. Once you freeze it, you can get a quick ginger shot when you need it. It's a busy mom wellness hack!
You can also make a soothing ginger tea for those days when you're feeling under the weather. Coconut water and a pinch of salt are added for extra hydration, and honey helps soothe a sore throat and balances out the intense ginger flavor.
As a mom of a toddler who goes to daycare, I'm all about supporting my immunity during the flu season. This ginger shot enriched with citrus and honey makes my favorite anti-inflammatory, soothing ritual on busy days. This recipe is a powerful shield against my toddler directly coughing in my face!
If you like classic ginger shots, I recommend Turmeric Ginger Shots made without a juicer. If you want to bump up the antioxidant, Purple Ginger Immunity Shot is also a fun way to use purple cabbage.
Jump to:
- Why Freeze Your Ginger Shots?
- Why You'll Love Frozen Immunity Cubes
- Ingredients of Frozen Immunity Cubes
- Instructions
- How to Use Your Immunity Cubes
- Japanese Home Remedies: From Folklore to Modern Rituals
- The Japanese Wellness Secret: Gut Health & Immunity
- More Japanese Wellness Ideas
- FAQ
- Easy Ginger Shot Recipe: Hydrating Immunity Ice Cubes (Hack)
Why Freeze Your Ginger Shots?
As a busy working mom, my biggest struggle with homemade ginger shots is finding the time to make them every day. Meal prepping and freezing ginger shots takes the heavy lifting out of my morning routine and supports my healthy habits. Plus, freezing has other benefits too!
- Extend the Shelf Life: Usually, homemade ginger shots are best consumed within 2-3 days. By freezing them, you can extend their life up to 3 months when stored in an air-tight container.
- Ultimate Time-Saving Ritual: While fresh immunity shots are so precious, running and washing your blender every day is such a hassle. Spend 10 minutes on Sunday to meal prep your immunity support.
- Zero Food Waste: Have you ever found your ginger sad and soft in the fridge? Freezing is a convenient way to use up every bit of ginger before it goes bad.
Pro-Tip for Busy Parents: While frozen ginger shots are lovely, you can also freeze a whole piece of ginger for cooking. You can easily grate frozen ginger directly into an recipes calls for ginger!
Why You'll Love Frozen Immunity Cubes
- Meal prep and freezing ginger shots for your healthy habits.
- Anti-inflammatory rich ginger combined with Vitamin C from citrus is a powerful immune booster!
- Honey soothe sore throat and makes spicy ginger taste better.
- Coconut water and salt make it extra hydrating!
Ingredients of Frozen Immunity Cubes
- Ginger: It's known that the anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties of ginger can help boost your immune system!
- Lemons and Oranges: They're both amazing sources of Vitamin C! Vitamin C helps protect us from catching common colds and helps us recover from them.
- Honey: Honey adds natural sweetness that makes drinking spicy ginger shots easier. It also coats the throat and helps with a sore throat. It's a simple home remedy item used for centuries!
- Coconut Water: Coconut water contains electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, and magnesium, which help us keep hydrated!
- Cinnamon: I like Ceylon cinnamon for its sharp flavor. Cinnamon is rich in antioxidants, great for anti-inflammation!
- Sea Salt: Salt provides essential electrolytes, sodium and chloride! Add a generous pinch of salt to make your shots extra hydrating.
Instructions
- In the high-speed blender, combine all the ingredients and blend until smooth.
- Place a cheese cloth and a nut bag over a measuring cup and strain the mixture through. Tightly squeeze the cheesecloth until the dry pulp is left.
- Pour the mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze. Customization Options: To make these even more flavorful and pretty, cut a few thin lemon slices into small pieces and place one into each ice cube tray cavity. Then add the fresh mint for a refreshing flavor and pop of color. Once frozen, these look so beautiful!
- Defrost and enjoy as a shot. Or pour hot water over 3-5 ice cubes, mix, and enjoy as soothing tea.
Tip: Skip straining if you're planning to use these in smoothies or if you love extra fiber! I like my shots smooth and pulp-free for making tea and sipping it when I'm not feeling well to help ward off a cold.
How to Use Your Immunity Cubes
- Ginger Tea: Add 3-5 cubes into a mug and pour hot water. Mix well and add more honey if needed. I like this ginger tea as a soothing hydration tea when I'm not feeling well, and drinking plain water feels hard chore.
- Ginger shots: Thaw the ice cubes overnight in the refrigerator, and the shot is ready the next morning! I like ginger shots as a part of my immune-boosting habit.
- Smoothie: These ice cubes are an immunity-boosting secret to make your smoothies extra nutritious! Add a few frozen ginger shots into your favorite smoothie recipes to spice them up.
Japanese Home Remedies: From Folklore to Modern Rituals
Healthy habits and home remedies always start in the kitchen. In Japanese and Asian medicine, ginger has long been used in natural remedies.
One of the time-honored ways of using ginger to fight a cold is Daiichi Daikon-to (第一大根湯). It's a folk-remedy beverage made with daikon, ginger, soy sauce, and bancha tea, used to break a fever and detoxify the body.
While ginger shots are a modern way to enjoy ginger's powerful health benefits, the principle remains the same. It's a beauty of borrowing the power of nature to support our body. Whether drinking it as a quick shot to boost immunity or as a comforting tea for soothing hydration when feeling mild symptoms, it's a helpful wellness tool you want to keep in your home apothecary.
The Japanese Wellness Secret: Gut Health & Immunity
But here is the "Japanese Wellness" secret, Immunity starts in the gut. While these ginger shots work from the "outside in" to stimulate circulation and provide Vitamin C, my Shio Koji (Salt Koji) works from the "inside out." By pairing the anti-inflammatory power of ginger with the probiotic benefits of fermented foods like Koji, you are creating a comprehensive wellness ritual!
Having these home remedies in your kitchen medicine cabinet is a beautiful, holistic way to navigate flu season. If you're into it, the Homemade Honey and Daikon Cough Syrup is another handy home remedy tool you need!
More Japanese Wellness Ideas
- Homemade Honey and Daikon Cough Syrup
- Japanese fermentation with Koji
- How to make Shio Koji
- How to enjoy powerful antioxidants in matcha
- Turmeric Ginger Shots made without a juicer
- Purple Ginger Immunity Shot
FAQ
No, there's no need to peel it! The ginger skin is safe to consume, and you won't be bothered by the texture after blending and straining. Just scrub it clean really well. I like using organic ginger and use it unpeeled. If you decide to peel, use a spoon to scrape off the skin for an easy peel.
Yes, absolutely! This is a blender-friendly ginger shot recipe, just like my No-juicer Turmeric Ginger Shots.
You can make a smooth, pulp-free wellness shot by blending and straining through a cheesecloth. No need for expensive equipment that takes up storage space!
These cubes will stay fresh for up to 3 months when stored in an airtight container or a heavy-duty freezer bag. This makes them the perfect weekend meal-prep project during winter.
Easy Ginger Shot Recipe: Hydrating Immunity Ice Cubes (Hack)
Ingredients
- 1-2 knobs ginger (about 45g) chopped *see note
- 2 lemon peeled and chopped, plus more sliced pieces for garnish
- 2 oranges peeled and chopped
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 cup coconut water
- Dash cinnamon
- Generous pinch sea salt
- 1-2 stem fresh mint leaves (optional) for garnish
Instructions
- In the high-speed blender, combine all the ingredients and blend until smooth.
- Place a cheese cloth and a nut bag over a measuring cup and strain the mixture through. Tightly squeeze the cheesecloth until the dry pulp is left.
- Pour the mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze.
- (Optional) To make these even more flavorful and pretty, cut a few thin lemon slices into small pieces and place one into each ice cube tray cavity. Then add the fresh mint for a refreshing flavor and pop of color. Once frozen, these look so beautiful!
- Defrost and enjoy as a shot. Or pour hot water over ice cubes, mix, and enjoy as soothing tea.
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