Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a slimming drink from ginger, cucumber, lemon and mint? Very simple and fast. First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list.
Step 2:
Rinse the lemon thoroughly, rub with a brush. Then cut into thin slices. To make the drink not too bitter, choose lemons with a thin skin, so that the white layer between the yellow peel and the pulp is as thin as possible - it is she who gives bitterness. Or you can completely cut off the entire peel to the very pulp.
Step 3:
Wash the cucumber, dry it and cut it into thin circles. The skin, if it is not rough, not damaged and not bitter, is not necessary to cut off.
Step 4:
Wash the mint, dry it. Peel the leaves from the twigs. Choose leaves without black dots.
Step 5:
Peel the ginger root and grate it on a fine grater. In the grated form, the amount of ginger should be no more than 1 tsp, otherwise the drink will be bitter.
Step 6:
Put lemon and cucumber slices, grated ginger and mint leaves in a jug.
Step 7:
Fill the contents of the jug with fresh clean water. The water should be either bottled or boiled and pre-cooled to room temperature. Leave the drink overnight in the refrigerator.
Step 8:
Drink should be consumed half a glass at a time. In total, there can be from 4 to 6 meals a day in combination with proper nutrition. With unlimited consumption of high-calorie fatty and carbohydrate foods, the drink is unlikely to give the effect that we would like. Bon appetit!
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
IMPORTANT! Nutritionists do not recommend drinking the drink to people suffering from allergies to one or more components, as well as kidney failure, chronic diseases of internal organs, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and gastrointestinal diseases. Any diet should be approached wisely.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Lemon - 16 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Ginger - 80 kcal/100g
- Dry ginger - 347 kcal/100g
- Pickled ginger - 51 kcal/100g
- Mint fresh - 49 kcal/100g
- Dried mint - 285 kcal/100g
- Mint - 49 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g