Ginger Beer Sierra Leone Style {Gluten-Free}
This Ginger Beer recipe is light, refreshing and sooo good. Suitable for Gluten-Free diets.
Whenever I go home to Sierra Leone, the first thing I am handed is a glass of ice cold ginger beer.
Before I even unpack my bags.
So over the UK summer when I am not making lemonade, I am making my other drink ie gingerbeer in good old Sierra Leone style.
Or almost. Because in Sierra Leone the large heap of peeled ginger will be pounded in a huge mortar and two pestles by two people working in synchrony with each other. Pound, pound, pound, pound, pound, pound as the sun rises so that the ginger beer would be as fresh as possible and in time for breakfast. As much as I do love waking up to or contributing to that pounding sound I have a much easier way of doing it. AKA the blender.
So I get the taste of Sierra Leonean ginger beer for a tenth of the work. No contest, right?
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Ginger Beer Sierra Leone Style
Ingredients
- 120 g (4 1/4 oz) fresh root ginger
- 1 L (4 1/4 cups) of boiling water (or sparkling water)
- 2 cloves or more
- 2-4 tbsp sugar to taste
- Juice of half a lime or more to taste
Instructions
- Peel the ginger and chop into large bits
- Add the ginger to a blender with about 50ml of water and blend into a paste.
- Pour the ginger paste into a large heatproof bowl and top with the boiling water.
- Add in the cloves and let stand for a couple of hours so the ginger flavour develops.
- Slowly strain the ginger beer through a sieve into a new container and throw away the bits left in the sieve.
- Add in the sugar and lime to taste and then let the ginger beer cool in the fridge before you serve it.
I used your recipe to make my own ginger beer for a Moscow mule and it was delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
My Dad loves ginger beer, I shall be making him some for Fathers Day so ty very much!
Cloves – of what??
Thanks
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about ginger. Regards
Ginger beer for breakfast? Now I feel like I’m missing out!
Janie x
I will swap you some ginger beer for some of your sardines…..
OMG! I love Salone ginger beer! I never could get my homemade one to taste like I remembered, now I know it’s the cloves!
Thanks for sharing Bintu! 🙂
Oh the word Salone makes me sooooooo happy.
No contest at all! I love making ginger beer too because it always reminds me of Sierra Leone. How I miss sweet Salone! Love this recipe Bintu.
I miss sweet Salone too. And the ginger beer is just the start of it.
This sounds so refreshing! What a charming photo, too!
It is ice cold refreshingly good. I might just go and make some more now.
So glad I stumbled by your blog today – thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I have not had fresh ginger beer since I was a child in Sri Lanka!
Goodness, how do you cope with no ginger beer? I hope this inspires you.
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Fufu, I want some.
I feel like I’ve been deprived I’ve never had this before, can’t wait to give it a try. I am all for convenience who needs a huge mortar and two pestles – its over kill. You’re bringing lots of memory back with the mortar and pestle though, its like back home they used that for everything – fufu is one i remember fondly – Aww good times.