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53 Ginger Recipes That Are Just the Right Amount of Spicy

From warming curry to zippy dressings to baked goods, ginger livens up any recipe.
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Not quite spicy, not quite sweet, ginger has a truly distinctive flavor that plays the same role as your wacky college friend: It livens up every party it goes to, but can also make every conversation about itself. Our favorite 53 ginger-based recipes strike just the right balance—and let ginger spice up the dish without overstaying its welcome.

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    Vegan Butternut Squash Soup

    If you've always thought you needed hours to make a luxuriously silky puréed vegetable soup, well, this recipe is here to say you don't! 

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    Ginger Spritz

    Ginger beer and bubbly cava were meant to be together.

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    BA's Best Masala Chai

    This chai is definitively ginger-forward. Feel free to add a little more maple syrup if you like it on the sweeter side. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

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    Yossy Arefi
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    Ginger-Chicken Meatballs with Chinese Broccoli

    For this meatball recipe, ground chicken is leaner than other meats, but less fat doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice flavor—these meatballs are loaded with aromatics like scallions, ginger and garlic, and served alongside delicious Chinese broccoli.

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    Alex Lau
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    Hot Turmeric Latte

    While ground spices will work, the medicinal properties will be diminished, and the finished texture less silky smooth.

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    Coconut-Ginger Chickpea Soup

    The dal is vegan but full of hearty protein thanks to the chickpeas, lentils, and coconut milk.

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    Coconut-Apple-Ginger Dal

    This velvety lentil soup is the antidote to holiday excess; skip the yogurt to make it vegan.

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    Christopher Testani
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    Extra Stormy Dark and Stormy

    The classic rum cocktail usually relies on ginger beer for its spicy punch, but this hurricane-strength potion not only uses a homemade lemon-ginger brew, it also garnishes itself with candied ginger. Batten down the hatches!

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    Chicken Tikka Masala

    For this chicken tikka masala recipe, the yogurt helps tenderize the chicken; the garlic, ginger, and spices in the marinade infuse it with lots of flavor.

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    Christopher Testani
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    Double Ginger Sticky Toffee Pudding

    Gooey toffee sauce drapes itself over a warm ring of brown sugar, Medjool dates, and both fresh and crystallized ginger.

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    Danny Kim
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    Brad's Prevention Tonic

    BA's test kitchen manager Brad Leone swears by this elixir in the winter months, when colds are never more than a badly aimed sneeze away. It hydrates and capitalizes on the anti-inflammatory characteristics of ginger, but we also think it tastes mighty good.

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    Alex Lau
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    Udon With Chicken and Garlicky Peanut Dressing

    This colorful cold noodle salad is infinitely riffable and superbly delicious, thanks to a big-flavor dressing you’re gonna want to have on hand all the time.

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    Eva Kolenko
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    Overeater's Tonic

    Mint, ginger, fennel, and cayenne are known for their digestive properties. Turn this into a spritzer by using club soda instead of water.

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