Three Power Ginger Shot Recipes (2024)

Three immunity boosting ginger shot recipes perfect for busy mornings or a quick boost. See how to make lemon ginger, carrot ginger, and green apple ginger shots. Jump to the Ginger Shot Recipes

We’ve tried various juices before, but it wasn’t until we were in California after a long flight that left us drained and with headaches that we tried a ginger lemon shot. It made us feel so good, quickly picked us up and got us ready for the day. Since then, we’ve fallen into takinga quick ginger shot most mornings.

More Ginger Recipes: You may also like our Naturally Sweet Lemon Ginger Beet Juice or this Ginger Hibiscus Mocktail (a non-alcoholic co*cktail)

How to Make Ginger Shots

The one we make most often is the simplestand only requires two ingredients: ginger + lemon. The ginger is pretty spicy, but the lemon cuts it just enough to make everything go down without too much work. Ginger is soothing and works wonders for the digestive system. Lemon is great for the immune system and helps to give youa nice boost.

Since we’ve fallen into making ginger shots often, we’ve done some experimenting. The ginger is bold and spicy, so adding something sweet like carrot or apple really helps to take the edge off. Greens are another secret, they tame ginger nicely.

Since we’re talking about making shot-sized juices — it doesn’t make much sense to get out the juicer every morning. Instead, we’ve gotten into the ritual of juicing a big piece of ginger then keeping it in the fridge and using it over the next few days. You can do the same with carrot, apple and spinach. (More than 3 days and the nutritional value of the juice might start to degrade.)

Our juicer is a slow cold pressed juicer. We couldn’t be happier with it. If you want to check it out for yourself, you can read all about it here.

In the recipe below, we’ve shared three ginger-based juice combinations:

1. Lemon + Ginger
2. Carrot + Lemon + Ginger
3. Green Apple + Spinach + Lemon + Ginger

We use our Omega juicer and love it, but if you need to, you can make ginger shots with a high powered blender. A juicer gets much more out of the ginger, but since it is so inexpensive some loss is fine.

To juice ginger using a blender, add roughly chopped ginger and a few tablespoons of water or lemon juice to your blender.Blend until the ginger is broken down — you will likely need to stop and scrape down the sides a few times. Then simply pour the ginger juice through a fine mesh strainer and add to fresh lemon juice for your shot.

For the other juices, you can treat carrot and apple the same as ginger and use a blender. Greens don’t do well in the blender, so I’d stick to using a good juicer for those.

More: You may also like our Naturally Sweet Green Detox Juice with apple, spinach, parsley, and lemonplus soothing ginger and cucumber.

Three Power Ginger Shot Recipes

Your body will love these ginger shots. Ginger is excellent for your digestive system and lemon is a powerful immunity booster. In general, you are looking for about 1 teaspoon of ginger juice for each shot. More than that and it’s going to be difficult to drink. We don’t peel ginger before juicing. Simply scrub and rinse the ginger root to remove grit then pass it through your juicer. Since we’re talking about making shot-sized juices — it doesn’t make much sense to get out the juicer every morning. Instead, we’ve gotten into the ritual of juicing a big piece of ginger then keeping it in the fridge and using it over the next few of days.

Makes 2 shots

Nutrition Per Serving Calories 16 / Protein 1 g / Carbohydrate 5 g / Total Sugars 1 g / Total Fat 0 g / Cholesterol 0 mg

AUTHOR: Adam and Joanne Gallagher