You can change how the fresh ginger root impacts your recipes (for all your ginger root jumbo prawn recipes) a great deal by making pretty subtle changes in how you prepare the fresh ginger root for your recipe. You can leave the skin on, take the skin off, cut in slices of varying thicknesses, mince, dice, chop, and more. Because the ginger changes how it imparts its flavor to the rest of the meal based on these simple differences in how you cut the root, it is an important part of your meal preparation to decide you how like it. However you like it, is the way to do it.
Slicing and Peeling Fresh Ginger Root
Thin Slicing Ginger Root
If you want your fresh ginger root to have a little more subtle presence flavor-wise (where the individual pieces of fresh ginger root in your meal are visible but less individually flavorful), then slicing the fresh ginger root in very thin slices is a…
Thin Sliced Ginger Root with Skin On
Thin slicing fresh ginger root really means that you don't have to even bother with removing the skin from the fresh ginger root. If the ginger root is a good quality root and not fibrous or tough, it is very easy to slice as thin as you would like and…
Peeling Fresh Ginger
Slicing with or without Peeling: If you want the extra impact of having slightly larger slices of fresh ginger root in your jumbo prawn recipes, you can simply slice your piece of ginger root across the grain (the linear stringy fibers running the length…
Checking out your Ginger Root Quality
When you are busy thin slicing your fresh ginger you, you will quickly find out whether it is a good quality root or a fibrous and stringy dried out old log. A good quality fresh ginger root will be juicy when you slice it. It will slice easily -…