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Jinjinbere

Name: Jinjinbere
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Mali
Ingredients: 150g Ginger; 2 Lemon; 120g Sugar; A pinch Mint Leaves; 1.5L Water; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Grated ginger mixed with lemon and sugar — Mali's fiery cold drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Jinjinbere is a cold ginger drink of Mali and West Africa. Plenty of fresh ginger is grated and steeped in water, strained, and seasoned with lemon or lime, sugar, and mint. Fiery yet sweet, it's drunk on hot days and to break the Ramadan fast, and sold in bags at markets.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the shade of a Malian market, cold ginger drink packed in little plastic bags and bottles sits in a box of ice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Ginger 150g
Lemon 2
Sugar 120g
Mint Leaves A pinch
Water 1.5L
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and grate the ginger.
Blend with 500ml water, or knead well, and let stand 30 minutes.
Strain through cloth, squeezing out the juice.
Add the remaining water, lemon juice, and sugar and dissolve.
Chill in the fridge and serve with mint and ice.

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