Ghee
Ghee is clarified butter. It
is a staple of Indian cooking like olive oil is to the Italian cuisine. Ghee is
also used in French cooking.
Ghee, once made, will keep
indefinitely-six or eight months is reasonable-without refrigeration. You need
butter to make ghee, not any imitations even if "it can fool mother nature." Use
the light salted variety.
What You Need:
1 pound of lightly
salted butter (this will make at least 1/2 pound pure ghee)
1 1-quart heavy-bottom sauce- pan
1 cooking spoon, not slotted
1 clean glass container
1 spare container (to hold the residue - you can use an empty can and throw it
out.)
Directions:
Melt the butter in
the pan directly over medium heat. Do not burn. It will begin to bubble and
foam. By the time it reaches a slow, rolling boil, the milk solids will move to
the top. Take the pan from the heat and carefully skim off the foam with the
spoon, discarding it in the spare container.
Repeat this process several
times to remove as much of the foam as possible.
Then return the pot to the heat and let it gently come to a boil again. More
solids-scantier this time -will again rise to the top. Skim off again. By this
time, you should have taken off all the residue. If not, try again.
Put the pot back on the
stove and turn off the heat; let it rest for a minute or two. A thin, skin-like
film will form. Remove it gently with the spoon. Discard.
What remains in the pot is a clear liquid, the sweetly aromatic ghee, floating
on the heavier solids, which sit in the bottom like lead.
As soon as the ghee has
cooled down-but before it gets completely cold-strain through a fine-meshed tea
strainer into the glass container. Stop pouring when the heavier solids move to
the strainer.
Cool; cover. The straining
should have caught what few solids remain between top and bottom.
Time to Prepare: 15 minutes
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