This delicious and easy Pineapple Ginger syrup is a simple 3-ingredient recipe that allows you to recreate your Starbucks drinks at home, saving you both time and money! Many recipes use pineapple juice and ginger juice, which is expensive or hard to find, so I've also shown how to use readily available canned pineapple and fresh ginger.
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⭐ Why This Recipe is a Star
- Delicious: The sweetness of the pineapple and the spicy flavor of the ginger go super well in this homemade pineapple ginger syrup. It adds the perfect tropical flavor to your drinks or teriyaki meatballs!
- Easy and good for your wallet: Only requiring 3 simple ingredients, this blitz and boil recipe will have you recreating Starbucks drinks at home, for a fraction of the cost! Try using it in this such as this Pineapple Matcha drink today!
🥘 Ingredients
You will need a few simple ingredients:
- fresh ginger: wash well but don't bother to peel as we're going to blitz and strain later anyway. I used 3 ¼ inch slices that are as long as your thumb (altogether about 1.5 times the volume of one's thumb.) This gives a pretty spicy flavor already so try this before using more! You can also use ginger juice if you can find it.
- pineapple: Use 1 can of pineapple cubes, including the syrup. (If using canned pineapple rounds, cut the rounds into smaller pieces before blitzing.) You can also use fresh pineapple if you wish but it's more hassle to peel! Similarly, pineapple juice also works but unsweetened pineapple juice isn't sold everywhere!
- white sugar: I used ⅔ cup of white sugar. You'll need to use more (about 1 Cup) if using fresh pineapple because you won't have the sweet syrup from the can. I don't recommend brown sugar as white sugar has a cleaner taste. Make sure it's bone char free if on a vegan diet.
- water: to flush out all the pulp left in the blender
Note: if using juice, you can use 1 Cup of sugar to 1 Cup of ginger juice and 2-3 Cups of unsweetened pineapple juice.
🔪 Step-by-Step Instructions
1a. Add the pineapple, syrup and ginger into the blender.
1b. Cover and blitz for 1-2 minutes till it becomes a pulpy liquid.
2a. Pour the sugar into a small pot.
2b. Place a sieve over the pot and carefully pour the blended pineapple through it. You will need to use a spoon to push the liquid through.
3a. There will be a lot of pulp left in the blender. Pour the water into the blender, cover and blend again till you get all the bits.
3b. Pour this through the strainer in Step 2. Do it slowly or it'll spill out of the pot. Compress the pulp with a spoon so you get all the liquid out.
4a. Over medium heat, slowly bring the fruit juice to a boil. (Melted sugar is very hot so we don't want it to bubble and splash us.) Stir so that all the sugar dissolves into the liquid.
4b. Once the sugar has dissolved, you can increase the heat to medium high and allow the solution to boil till it has reduced to about 2 Cups (or your desired consistency.)
Note: This can take anything from 25 minutes to 1 hour depending on how high a heat you use!
🥤How to Use
This homemade tropical syrup works well when:
- mixed with soda water or Seltzer to make a tropical mocktail. I recommend between a 1:3 to 1:6 ratio (syrup: water) as well as a squeee of lemon or lime juice.
- on that note, use it to substitute white sugar when sweetening calamansi juice
- used in Starbucks Green Tea Pineapple
- used in Starbucks Guava Black Tea
- drizzled over cake or yogurt
🥡 How to Store
Allow to cool then store in an airtight container in the fridge for 1 week. Toss if moldy.
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Pineapple Ginger Syrup (Starbucks recipe)
Equipment
- Blender
- Strainer or metal sieve
- Small pot
Ingredients
- 1 can pineapple Drained weight: 340g (12oz)/ with syrup 565g (19.9oz) Substitute: 1 fresh pineapple or Pineapple Juice
- 3 slices fresh ginger washed but unpeeled. Each slice ¼ inch thick and the length of the thumb. Total volume of the 3 slices about 1.5 times the size of one's thumb (but honestly this is a flexible recipe. Use more ginger if you want more spice, and less if you want a more mellow taste.) Substitute: Ginger Juice
- 2 Cups water
- ⅔ Cup white sugar Do not use brown sugar. Use bone char free sugar if on a plant-based diet. Increase to 1 Cup if using fresh pineapple (as there is no syrup.)
Instructions
- Add the pineapple, syrup and ginger into the blender. Cover and blitz for 1-2 minutes till it becomes a pulpy liquid.
- Pour the sugar into a small pot. Place a sieve over the pot and carefully pour the blended pineapple through it. You will need to use a spoon to push the liquid through.
- There will be a lot of pulp left in the blender. Pour the water into the blender, cover and blend again till you get all the bits.
- Pour this through the strainer from the previous step. Do it slowly or it'll spill out of the pot. Compress the pulp with a spoon so you get all the liquid out.
- Over medium heat, slowly bring the fruit juice to a boil. (Melted sugar is very hot so we don't want it to bubble and splash us.) Stir so that all the sugar dissolves into the liquid.
- Once the sugar has dissolved, you can increase the heat to medium high and allow the solution to boil till it has reduced to about 2 Cups (or your desired consistency.) Note: This can take anything from 25 minutes to 1 hour depending on how high a heat you use!
Notes
Note: the nutritional information is an estimate automatically calculated using the WPRM recipe maker and I am not responsible for its veracity.
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