A delicious recipe with a quick vocabulary building task! What’s not to like?
Prep and cook time: 20 minutes
Serves 4
4 cups water
1 teaspoon turmeric powder or fresh peeled (=with the skin off) turmeric root
1 teaspoon ginger powder (or a 4-inch strip fresh ginger root, peeled)
honey or dark-liquid stevia, to taste
lemon slices (=thin round pieces of lemon), or the juice of a full lemon
Put water into a small pot and bring to a boil (=heat until water starts to bubble) on the stove (=gas or electric cooker). Make sure that the water has come to a full boil (=when there are lots of big bubbles in the water). Add turmeric and ginger to the boiling water and reduce to simmer (=when there are only a few smaller bubbles in the water) for 8 to 10 minutes. This will extract (=get out of something) the beneficial compounds from the turmeric and ginger. Remove (=take off) the pot from the stove. Strain (=filter) the tea into a cup through a fine-mesh strainer to filter out the particles of turmeric and ginger. Add sweetener (=sugar, stevia, honey can make something sweeter) and lemon to taste.
Do you still remember these key verbs from the recipe? Match them to their definitions.
remove
extract
strain
simmer
boil
peel
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take the skin off a fruit or vegetable
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heat water so bubbles form inside it
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get something out of something
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take something off of something
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filter
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keep water so warm that it is almost boiling
ANSWERS: above in the text!
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