This easy homemade Honey Ginger Syrup has so many uses! It adds amazing warmth and sweetness to hot tea, adds a depth of flavor to your favorite summer drinks or cocktails, and is awesome drizzled on toast, pancakes, and cornbread. Make a batch in 10 minutes and store it in the fridge for weeks!
This ginger syrup recipe does not contain any refined sugar or corn syrup—just all natural healthy honey.
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Homemade honey ginger simple syrup
I'm a big fan of homemade syrups because you can make so many different flavors from pretty much anything. I have a recipe for cherry syrup and mulberry syrup on this blog, and they are a favorite for drizzling over pancakes and buttermilk crepes. Keep reading for more serving suggestions, including savory ways to use ginger syrup!
This honey ginger syrup has a nice ginger warmth and spice thanks to loads of fresh ginger that is simmered with water and honey. The ginger spice is balanced by the sweetness of honey. No refined cane sugar or corn syrup in this recipe!
Just 3 ingredients and 10 minutes if all you need to make this happen in your kitchen.
How to use honey ginger syrup
Try it in:
- Green iced tea
- Cucumber lemonade
- Honey ginger limeade
- Hot buckwheat tea
- Hot spiced tea
- Add it to a mojito in place of sugar
- Add it to other cocktails and drinks, such as these blueberry Moscow mules
- Drizzle it on cornbread (so good with a spicy jalapeno cornbread!)
- Drizzle it on toast, French toast, or over pancakes
- Add it to stir fry sauce, such as this chicken vegetable stir fry with honey ginger sauce
Now that I showed you so many ways to use honey ginger syrup, are you convinced you should make a batch??
Good. Let's get started.
More honey drink recipes: Honey Lavender Latte with Lavender Coffee Creamer
Ingredients
- ¼ - ½ cup sliced fresh ginger (peeled or scrubbed clean, your choice)
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup honey
Please note that ½ cup ginger makes a pretty gingery syrup. You can use less if you want to.
Equipment
- Small saucepan
- Slotted spoon or mesh strainer
- 8-12 oz glass jar to store the syrup
Instructions
Step 1: Combine the sliced ginger and water in a small saucepan and bring to a gentle boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes, taking care not to let all the water evaporate.
Step 2: Use a slotted spoon to carefully remove the ginger pieces.
Step 3: Add the honey, stir gently, and simmer for another 5 minutes, or until the mixture thickens to your liking. Allow to cool, then transfer to a glass jar and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
What kind of honey to use
For this recipe, I recommend using whatever cheap honey you like. There's no point in using expensive local raw honey because you will boil it and remove most of the benefits of raw honey. The honey just acts as a natural sweetener for the syrup. This is a nice size bottle of honey that happens to be raw and organic, but is not expensive.
If you want to make a honey ginger syrup and keep the raw honey properties intact, you can make simmer the water and ginger a little longer to make it more concentrated, let it cool down until warm (but not hot), then gently stir with the raw honey until it is a uniform homogeneous mixture.
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Honey Ginger Syrup
Ingredients
- ½ cup sliced fresh ginger - or use less if you want a less gingery syrup (peeled or scrubbed clean, your choice)
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup honey
Special equipment
- Slotted spoon or mesh strainer
- 8-12 oz glass jar to store the syrup
Instructions
- Combine the sliced ginger and water in a small saucepan and bring to a gentle boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes, taking care not to let all the water evaporate.
- Use a slotted spoon to carefully remove the ginger pieces. Discard them, or brew again with tea, they still have some flavor left.
- Add the honey, stir gently, and simmer for another 5 minutes, or until the mixture thickens to your liking. Allow to cool, then transfer to a glass jar and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Notes
Nutrition
The nutritional information displayed is an estimate and not to be used as dietary or nutritional advice. Consult a nutritionist or dietician for nutritional info based on the exact ingredients you use.