Ghee is Versatile with buttery taste and distinct roasted, nutty, fragrance, you need only a single ingredient to make homemade ghee. No-Fail recipe of how to make ghee at home.
Ghee is Versatile with buttery taste with a distinct roasted, nutty, fragrance. It is a tasty swap for butter or olive oil in the sauté pan. Ghee you can use in savory and sweet dishes.
But smell and taste is so intoxicating that I can’t leave that one out from my pantry. So I decided to make it at home. I like to use unsalted butter. Make sure to use sweet cream high fat content butter.
What is a ghee ?
Ghee can be consider as brother of clarified butter as when you initially heat butter you will get browned butter or clarified butter. Then upon slightly more cooking you can get ghee. It is mainly fat, all the moisture is removed and milk solids are caramelized/browned and will settle down while cooking and is strained out. The final product gives a rich nutty taste.It has a longer shelf life, at room temperature. At room temperature it will be grainy liquid when it is warm. It become solid during cooler temperature.
Ghee and Indians have long relationship, we use it in our cooking, medicine ( Ayurvedic medicine) religious rituals (worshiping God, marriage, death and all) and everywhere. We even feed our young babies with mashed rice and little bit of ghee.
Once you have made the it, you can make almost all Indian sweets, rice, biriyani, biscuits you name it; and curries like Paneer Makhani, Kofta curry, even ghee roasted potatoes yumm.
Points to Remember ?
If you are in hurry, don’t try to make it, you are going to waste your time and money. I did that; I was juggling two dishes and making ghee on stovetop and ended up with burned version. So take your time and use medium-low flame to make it. Within 28 minutes you will get fully aromatic ghee.
You can flavor the it with cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, curryleaves or betal leaves if you want. I prefer simple version without any add-ons.
It has high cooking temperature than any other oil, so feel free to heat them. While making , one thing you need to make sure that there should be no water near, in pan, strainer, and bottle/jar. Don’t stir while making it.
Make your container in which you are going to keep is avoid of any water content. Even a single droplet of water can destory . As even tiniest water drops can spoil the ghee by causing bacteria to grow in them.
Do I need to keep ghee in referigerator?
No you don't need to keep them in referigerator? Keep it in room tempeature upto six month.
I am following paleo diet? or keto diet Can I use Ghee ?
Do the lack of lactose and casein, grass-fed ghee comes highly-recommended as both a nutritious and delicious choice for any Paleo dieter as well as Keto dieter.
RAW Butter, Cheese, and Cream are Some of the Best Foods to Eat. Grass-fed raw butter may be one of the healthiest dairy products on a ketogenic diet menu.
First grab 1 lb of unsalted butter.
Then gradually heat the butter in a thick bottom sauce pan until it melted and white foam develop in the top.
Continue to heat the butter in medium low flame resulting formations of bubbles and later bubbles breaks out.Milk soilid gradually settle in bottom of the pan. Remove from the fire when you golden brown color sediment in the bottom of pan. Set aside for cooling for some time, then strain it using a metal strainer .
Enjoy as such or with any your favorite dish.
How to Make Ghee
How to make homemade ghee with unsalted butter.
Yield: 50 servings
Cost: $4
Equipment
- 1 Sauce pot
Materials
- 1 lb 453g butter
Instructions
- Heat butter in a thick bottomed saucepan. Use low heat while butter is melting and increase to medium low.
- As butter melts you will see lot of foam developing in the top at first then bubbles starts to form around 10 minutes of cooking
- You will hear noise while bubbles are forming.
- Bubbles start to break out; they will continue for about another 6 minutes.
- Then milk solids start settling in the bottom and you will see golden color of ghee along with brownish substances sticking in the bottom of the pan. It will take about another 9 minutes. Nice aroma ghee will be coming at that time.
- Remove the ghee from the fire immediately. Otherwise it will continue to cook resulting burnt ghee.
- Once ghee is slightly cooled down. strain it using a stainless strainer to remove the milk solids.
- You can store ghee in room temperature then it will grainy liquid. If you refrigerate it will be hard. I like to store at room temperature.
- Enjoy as much you wish.
Notes
You can add some cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, curry leaves or betel leaves, little salt while making ghee.
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Renata says
Hi Swathi, I have just made some ghee! Thanks for sharing all your expertise. I'm linking back to this post on my blog.
pepper bowl says
It exactly looks like my gradma's recipe!! thanks for reminding!!
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Jean says
Wow! So easy! And I love it. 🙂
Sobha Shyam says
wow, so perfect ghee, homemade is always the best 🙂
Divya Pramil says
Awesome and valuable post, I loved the clicks especially 🙂
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Swetha says
I make ghee at home always , similar way!. Ghee pics look fanatastic swathi!
mjskit says
Thanks SO MUCH for this tutorial! I've always wanted to make Ghee but wasn't really sure of how to. Yours turned out perfect!
Pushpa says
Hey Swathi,home made ghee looks delicious,makes a huge difference.
Elisabeth says
Swathi, you're awesome! Thanks for showing how to make the Ghee so simple and easy! Not difficult at all! Love all the photos, too:D
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Az says
Done to perfection... love your step by step recipe.. thanks for sharing!
CJ - Food Stories says
What a great how-to post ... Gotta pin this one ... Happy Sunday 🙂
Marus says
Thanks for this recipe de ghee.
Good day
Suryaprabha Parthasarathy says
Just love the aroma while making ghee!! Nostalgic!!
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PT says
festival seasons are starting.. its time to start preparing ghee 🙂
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Lovely Post Swathi .. Happy to follow You 🙂
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Samira says
delicious clicks ;-D We make using malai also.....
Swasthi says
Loved your clicks Swathi. Glad to follow you
Premalatha Aravindhan says
Lovely Post Swathi,gr8 clicks...
SirisFood says
So easy...I ever k ee this.thank u..
Cathleen says
I have never heard of ghee before this. But at least I now know how to make it!
Reeni says
Thanks for showing us to make ghee so perfectly Swathi! It looks so rich and delectable!
kitchen queen says
those were the days when my mother used to prepae home made butter and melt it into ghee.Today we just melt the store bought butter into ghee.As u say I too cannot have any rice with out a few dollops of ghee.My food is incomplete without its addition.
Balvinder Ubi says
Even though I am a punjabi but I was never a fan of ghee, I rarely use it. When I make sweets I add half butter and half canola oil. Your tutorial no doubt is good.
Srimathi says
I love making ghee because it makes the house smell so comforting and delicious. A very informative post.
Sanoli Ghosh says
Very neat and detailed documentation. Useful post. Swathi, now anyone can make ghee in home. Thanks dear.
Shri says
Beautiful Swathi!
Spice up the Curry says
nice one dear. My mom always make it at home. But here in USA, i have never made it. Now I think i shold try
Rekha says
very neat and detailed explanation.. thanks for sharing..
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Navaneetham Krishnan says
I have never made ghee but over here, the price is still ok, within what I can afford. Of course nothing like the home made version and I will certainly give a try.
Rahin says
nothing compares to home made ghee, looks delicious
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Nice pics Swathi and a lovely post...
Guru Uru says
Thank you for this my friend, we buy ghee so much, this looks so much better!
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Meena says
wonderful and easy one to make ghee. one of my friends had showed me complicated way of making ghee. something like churning milk and malai at fast speed then the butter part comes out which u can store as ghee
i forgot about it now
Beena.stephy says
Thanku for sharing
Ganga Sreekanth says
useful post.......Thanks for sharing
Angie's Recipes says
Cool! Love the basic recipes like this. Thanks for sharing.
Enjoy your weekend!
Angie
Hamaree Rasoi says
Thanks a lot for displaying how to prepare home made ghee.
Deepa
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Neev says
Never knew thats all it takes to make ghee, thank you for sharing.