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
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:
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| You need some butter, i used fresh white butter, you can use normal yellow butter too |
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| take a heavy bottom pan |
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| Add butter to it |
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| it will melt down and start to foam up |
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| now the foam with subside slowly and it will bubble up |
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| now all the milk solid will start separating from it and start to toast |
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| now the milk solids will be toasted and sink to the bottom |
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| Now it is getting nice and clear |
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| add in some drumstick leaves for fragrant |
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| let them fry |
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| they will crisp and flavour the whole ghee |
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| now strain this and store in a bottle |
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| done |
Anonymous
What is the purpose of adding drumstick leaves?
Poojan
Fragrance
Mary
I'm always seeing recipes calling for ghee - so this is perfect - thank you!
Mary
Aarthi
@Anonymousit is for flavour
Sharanya Skarp
Can we use Amul butter? .. Bcoz in chennai I saw only Amul butter in stores.
Aarthi
@Sharanya Skarpyes u can use amul butter
Anonymous
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
Aarthi
@AnonymousUse unsalted butter. And use curry leaves instead of drumstick leaves
Sadaf Farooqui
kindly tell me what are drumstick leaves?any hindi name for it?
Aarthi
@Sadaf FarooquiSorry i am not sure
Anonymous
Aarthi,
Thank you for the post.BTW,from where did you get the bottle?
Aarthi
@AnonymousI got it from fab furnish
Anonymous
Can we add bay leaves for flavour
Anonymous
@Anonymousin ghee they dont use bay leaf
shoba
Hi.. How long I can keep this air tight container ghee? Thanks
shoba
Can I keep in room temperature r keep it in fridge?
Aarthi
@shobayou can store this in room temp
Aarthi
@shobau can keep it for a month
Sadaf Farooqui
what is drumstick leaves?
Aarthi
@Sadaf Farooquiit is a kind of spinach leaves from drumstick plant
Rezina Nazneen
Is it ok if I don't use drumstick leaves?
Aarthi
@Rezina Nazneenyes u can leave out drumstick leaves as well
Anonymous
drumstock adds flavor.
a pich of rock sale will increase flavour and improve shelf life
Anonymous
Strained the ghee after adding curry leaves
Anonymous
Hi aarthi strained the ghee after adding drumsticks leaves
Anonymous
Strained the ghee after adding curry leaves
sathya Narayanan
Friends please don't forget to put raagi powder after removing ghee from kadai what leftover into it's very tasty