How to make Clarified Butter

You will find step by step instructions here about how to make ghee.

Making homemade ghee is a simple and easy process. The tools needed are few and you need only one ingredient - unsalted butter - to make desi ghee.

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How to make desi ghee or clarified butter

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Ingredients:

Plain, unsalted butter - 500 gms.

Making homemade ghee method:

1. Heat butter in a pan on medium heat. After it melts, there will be some white foam on top.
2. Keep cooking till a clear liquid fat forms. Stir it once in a while.
3. The milk solids will separate from the fat, continue cooking.
4. Once the fat starts to separate from the milk solids and the milk solids start to brown, you should watch it.
5. Keep stirring and Once the milk solids are evenly light brown, take the pan off the stove. Let it cool.
6. Filter it with a stainless steel filter in the jar you want to store it. It will keep good for more than a month. If you plan to keep it longer, keep it in the fridge and take out as and when you need it.

Tips:

1. You may stir it once in a while if you don't want the milk solids to stick to the bottom. It is also ok if you let the milk solids stick to the bottom but you need to watch carefully that it does not get burnt. Cleaning the bottom needs more scrubbing too.
2. In making ghee, the trick is switching off the stove(or taking the pan off the stove) at the right time. So once the fat starts to separate from the milk solids and the milk solids start to brown, you should watch it. Keep stirring and Once the milk solids are evenly light brown, take the pan off the stove.
3. The brown milk solids contain some amount of ghee. You may add it to any vegetable or lentil curry. It can also be mixed with sugar or jaggery and it tastes like toffee.

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