Ginger Shots Recipe

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Buhhh-bye cold, sniffles, and sore throats! 👋🙅🏻‍♀️ This year I’m building up my immunity with this delicious ginger shots recipe. These shots are loaded in healthy, superfood ingredients and they taste amazing. Immunity shots run upwards of $6 a pop at the grocery store 💸, but these cost just pennies each when prepared at home and last in the fridge for up to 1 week (and even longer in the freezer). These are endlessly customizable, with optional ingredients like coconut water, carrots, or honey. 🥥🥕🍯

Why You’ll Love Ginger Shots Recipe

Every morning should start with shots! Immunity shots, of course. 😜 These gingery citrus 🍊 shots are not only delicious, they are loaded in vitamins and antioxidants to help boost energy, promote digestion, fend off headaches and fatigue, and strengthen your immunity against seasonal illness. 😷 All you need is a blender and a nut milk bag to make juice shop-quality, potent, healing shots. Each ingredient in this recipe is a powerhouse of health benefits, and when combined, they contain the fullest potential of their benefits.

Key Ingredients

🍊Oranges: I like to use fresh, organic oranges in this recipe, which are full of vitamin C. I prefer to remove the skin and pith before blending so the juice is not bitter at all, but nice and sweet.

🍋Lemons: I love the tang and bright flavor of fresh lemon in this recipe, but please remove the peel, pith, and seeds before adding to the blender.

🫚Ginger: A fresh knob of ginger is a must here, just make sure it’s not wrinkled, but smooth and firm. Ginger is full of amazing health benefits — it has strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, helps support the immune system, and fights off 🤧 colds and infections. Plus, it’s a natural energy boost!

🧂Black Pepper: Black pepper is necessary in this recipe as it helps activate the turmeric for 2000% more absorption in the body.

🧡Turmeric: This spice has loads of health benefits. It helps promote heart health, reduces inflammation, and is rich in antioxidants, too.

🌿Oregano Oil: This natural oil is extracted from the oregano plant and has been used in traditional medicine thanks to its antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory properties. When 🛒 purchasing from the health food store, double-check the variety you’re buying is safe for consumption.

How to Prepare

🔪 Use a sharp knife to peel and quarter 1 organic orange and 2 organic lemons, and then place into the blender.

🫚 Then chop 1 organic ginger root into smaller chunks and place into the blender.

💧 Next, add the black pepper, oregano or olive oil, and the filtered water to the blender.

🌀 Now, blend for 20 seconds, and then strain the liquid through a nut milk bag or cheesecloth.

🥄 After, stir in the ground turmeric.

🫙 Finally, pour the strained immune juice into your ginger shot bottles using a funnel, and store in the fridge for up to 1 week.

Nonna’s Tip 🫚

The black pepper is a must in this recipe! Along with the olive oil, this is what activates the turmeric for 2000% more absorption.

Ginger Shots Recipe

Variations and Substitutions for Ginger Shots Recipe

  1. I prefer to use organic produce in this recipe, but you can use non-organic if that’s all you have available.
  2. Instead of regular water, you can use 🥥 coconut water in these Ginger Shots for electrolytes.
  3. For additional sweetness, feel free to add some natural 🍯 honey to the blender as well.
  4. You can also add a peeled 🥕 carrot or even fresh spinach to the mix, for additional nutrients.

Similar Recipes

Be sure to check out my other feel good recipes that will be sure to heal you like my Italian Penicillin Soup

Best Served With

  • Have a Ginger Shot on an empty stomach first thing in the morning to help kick-start your metabolism, and provide an energy boost for the day ahead.
  • Have a shot after a 🍴 meal to help stimulate digestion and decrease bloating after a larger meal.
  • Take a Ginger Shot (or two!) if you’re experiencing 🤧 cold symptoms, nausea, or digestive discomfort as it should help relieve some of these issues.

Common Questions

do I have to peel the citrus in this recipe?

You can leave the citrus with the peel on, but keep in mind that the final result may be slightly more bitter, so try not to over blend which may help.

do I have to use organic produce in this ginger shots recipe?

No, you can certainly use any produce you have available. However, I recommend organic, especially if you plan to leave the peel on the citrus.

where can I purchase oil of oregano?

Most natural food stores will stock food-safe oil of oregano. If you can’t find any in-store, feel free to use olive oil instead.

why add the turmeric after straining?

I prefer to stir in the turmeric after straining that way it doesn’t stain my blender.

Must I strain the liquid?

No, you can certainly leave it as is out of the blender, but it will be thicker and more pulpy, rather than smooth like a juice.

how can I store the ginger shots?

Store the ginger shots in the bottles in the fridge for up to a week. Alternatively, you can freeze the juice in an ice cube tray and take out as needed.

Ginger and lemon shots

Ginger Shots Recipe

My Ginger Shots Recipe will be your go-to this winter. It tastes fresh and delicious, its full of antioxidants, and has important nutrients that will help fight colds and the flu. Plus, it's so much more cost-effective to make yourself!
5 from 2 votes
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American
Makes: 12 two-ounce shots
Author: The Modern Nonna
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients 

  • 1 organic orange, peeled and quartered
  • 2 organic lemons, peeled and quartered
  • 1 organic ginger root, unpeeled
  • ¼ teaspoons black pepper, to activate the turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon oregano oil, or olive oil
  • ¾ cups filtered water
  • 1 teaspoon organic ground turmeric powder, after straining

Instructions 

  • Place all of the ingredients in the blender minus the ground turmeric powder.
  • Blend for 20 seconds, strain it through a nut milk bag or cheesecloth.
  • Now, add in the ground turmeric and stir. I like to add it in after straining so it doesn’t stain the blender.
  • Pour the strained immune juice into your ginger shot bottles. Mine made about 12 two-ounce shots.
  • Storage: Keep in the fridge for up to 1 week. Optionally, freeze in ice cube trays and thaw as needed!

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Nutrition

Calories: 14kcal, Carbohydrates: 3g, Protein: 0.3g, Fat: 0.4g, Saturated Fat: 0.1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.3g, Sodium: 1mg, Potassium: 52mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 1g, Vitamin A: 29IU, Vitamin C: 15mg, Calcium: 10mg, Iron: 0.2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American
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12 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Good Afternoon Snejana! Just wanted to say I have been following you for a while and have made many of your recipes but the Ginger Shot, WOW I cannot thank you that. I began giving it to my kids in Sept when the school season began! My husband and my kids (aged 8 and 5) began taking it. Can I just tell you, NO one has been sicks since Sept!

    As we know schools are breading ground for colds and flu. I have not reached my our stock pile of children’s medicines going on 4 months now. Thank you so so much for introducing it. It has helped tremendously❤️

  2. Hello Modern Nonna,
    A couple things -I made the recipe last night. I doubled it (the 2X wasn’t converting) when I tapped in it. The “shot” doesn’t specify how much. Is it a 1oz or 2oz shot? I used 2oz bottles. My doubled recipe made approximately 27oz. I filled 12 of my 2oz shot bottles and had 3oz left over. Unfortunately, they didn’t taste “fresh and delicious” as you stated. My husband and I both got a spicy shot. I even put quite a bit of honey into the bowl of juice before filling the shot bottles. We couldn’t tell if it was the pepper or the ginger. The other confusing part of the ingredients was the ginger root amount. I used about a 4” long ginger root (as I doubled my recipe). Also, how much should a child drink?
    Please help, Modern Nonna?!
    Thank you💕

    1. Hi Cherie, thank you for giving these a try and leaving a comment! 🥹💗 The quantity of the shot is really up to you. Mine were about 1.5 oz each. It was likely the ginger, not the black pepper, that made the juice spicy. If the spice is too much for you, I would add a bit more orange and lemon juice. (You can squeeze the fruit by hand so you don’t need to break out any additional equipment.) As for your child, I’m not qualified to give nutrition advice, especially not knowing their age.

    1. Hi Jodi, definitely! I made the recipe in a blender since more people own blenders than juicers, but a juicer is ideal. 💗

    2. Recipe looks delicious!!!
      Can you tell me how many oz/grams are in each bottle and where to purchase the bottles? Amazon?
      Also, can grapeseed oil be sub’d?
      Thank-you!

      1. Hi Jeff! Great questions. I take my shots in 2-ounce portions. You can find the link to the bottles here.

        I would not sub grapeseed oil. I would do olive oil or skip the oil entirely.

  3. Is oregano oil the same thing as oil of oregano? And can I use oil of oregano instead if it’s not the same thing?

    1. They differ in potency. Both are safe to use, as long as the “oregano oil” you’re using is labeled “safe to consume.” 💕

  4. I’m so excited to try out this recipe!!! Important to note that Oil of Oregano is very effect but also doesn’t pick & choose between good and bad bacteria, so much like with antibiotics, probiotics are necessary to keep the good bacteria from getting wiped out:)