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Homemade Ghee Recipe / How to make Clarified Butter at Home / Desi Ghee Recipe / Clarified Butter Recipe

June 13, 2014 By Aarthi 28 Comments

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Ghee, Ghee, Ghee..One of my favorite ingredients to have on hand. I love to add it to so many of my curries, specially whenever i make dal i make tempering with ghee, it gives a nice flavour to the dish. I even make these ghee cookies, when i want something sweet. Ghee is such a versatile ingredient and have a long shelf life than butter. 
Now that i have started feeding rice to maha. I never miss to add ghee in her rice or dosa. Speaking of ghee, i never use store bought ghee for her. Each time i make my own ghee and store it for it. It is much more healthy and tasty. I got so many mails from my viewers to share the recipe of homemade ghee, so they can make it for their babies.I have made a huge batch of ghee on hand, so i will not be able to make a new batch now. So decided to post these pics. Sorry for the poor lighting.
This ghee is much more aromatic than your store bought ones and you will be smelling it all the time. I hope you will like it and let me know if you try it..

Preparation Time : 0 mins
Cooking Time : 30 to 40 mins

Ingredients:

Homemade Butter – 500 grams
Drumstick leaves –  2 sprigs
Method:
Take butter in a heavy bottom pan and heat it up on medium heat. Now the butter will melt and the milk solids will separate from it and start to foam up.
Keep on heating, now the foam will subside a little and it will bubble up. The water from the butter will start evaporating and reducing.
Now the milk solid will get toasted and it will get settled at the bottom, leaving a clear gold liquid.
Now add in drumstick leaves and let them crisp up.
Once crisped, turn off the heat and let the ghee gets cool.
Once it is cooled, strain it in a air tight container.
Store at room temp.

Notes:
1)Always cook butter on a low to medium heat to avoid burning.
2)You can use store bought yellow butter, i used white butter.
3)You can add some salt or curry leaves when u add drumstick leaves.
4)After draining the ghee, we mix the sediments with some cooked rice and enjoy it. It is so tasty.
5)Use thick bottom pan for cooking ghee.
6)Dont use cold butter directly on hot kadai, it may burn. Use room temparature butter

Pictorial:
You need some butter, i used fresh white butter, you can use normal yellow butter too

take a heavy bottom pan

Add butter to it

it will melt down and start to foam up

now the foam with subside slowly and it will bubble up

now all the milk solid will start separating from it and start to toast

now the milk solids will be toasted and sink to the bottom

Now it is getting nice and clear

add in some drumstick leaves for fragrant

let them fry

they will crisp and flavour the whole ghee

now strain this and store in a bottle

done
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  1. Anonymous

    June 13, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    What is the purpose of adding drumstick leaves?

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    • Poojan

      August 12, 2017 at 1:39 am

      Fragrance

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  2. Mary

    June 13, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    I'm always seeing recipes calling for ghee – so this is perfect – thank you!
    Mary

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  3. Aarthi

    June 14, 2014 at 4:41 am

    @Anonymousit is for flavour

    Reply
  4. Sharanya Skarp

    August 14, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    Can we use Amul butter? .. Bcoz in chennai I saw only Amul butter in stores.

    Reply
  5. Aarthi

    August 15, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    @Sharanya Skarpyes u can use amul butter

    Reply
  6. Anonymous

    October 30, 2014 at 2:35 am

    hi da yesterday only i came to knw abt ur site its very nice and appreciates u ..im having butter which i bought in shop lik salted and unsalted butter ..so can u tel me which one can b use and thn im living in u.s.a here drumstick leaves not available so can u suggest alternative one

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  7. Aarthi

    October 30, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    @AnonymousUse unsalted butter. And use curry leaves instead of drumstick leaves

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  8. Sadaf Farooqui

    November 1, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    kindly tell me what are drumstick leaves?any hindi name for it?

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  9. Aarthi

    November 3, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    @Sadaf FarooquiSorry i am not sure

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    December 18, 2014 at 10:04 am

    Aarthi,

    Thank you for the post.BTW,from where did you get the bottle?

    Reply
  11. Aarthi

    December 18, 2014 at 11:46 am

    @AnonymousI got it from fab furnish

    Reply
  12. Anonymous

    March 9, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Can we add bay leaves for flavour

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  13. Anonymous

    March 10, 2015 at 9:37 am

    @Anonymousin ghee they dont use bay leaf

    Reply
  14. shoba

    March 16, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    Hi.. How long I can keep this air tight container ghee? Thanks

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  15. shoba

    March 17, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Can I keep in room temperature r keep it in fridge?

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  16. Aarthi

    March 17, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    @shobayou can store this in room temp

    Reply
  17. Aarthi

    March 17, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    @shobau can keep it for a month

    Reply
  18. Sadaf Farooqui

    May 4, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    what is drumstick leaves?

    Reply
  19. Aarthi

    May 6, 2015 at 11:45 am

    @Sadaf Farooquiit is a kind of spinach leaves from drumstick plant

    Reply
  20. Rezina Nazneen

    June 11, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Is it ok if I don't use drumstick leaves?

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  21. Aarthi

    June 13, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    @Rezina Nazneenyes u can leave out drumstick leaves as well

    Reply
  22. Anonymous

    December 7, 2015 at 6:27 am

    drumstock adds flavor.

    a pich of rock sale will increase flavour and improve shelf life

    Reply
  23. Anonymous

    September 13, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    Strained the ghee after adding curry leaves

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  24. Anonymous

    September 13, 2016 at 6:36 pm

    Hi aarthi strained the ghee after adding drumsticks leaves

    Reply
  25. Anonymous

    September 13, 2016 at 6:36 pm

    Strained the ghee after adding curry leaves

    Reply
  26. sathya Narayanan

    November 21, 2016 at 9:41 am

    Friends please don't forget to put raagi powder after removing ghee from kadai what leftover into it's very tasty

    Reply

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