For all my life I've seen ghee being made at home. When I was little, I would watch my mom boil raw milk to get cream, churn the cream to make fresh butter, and then boil the butter to make ghee at home. She would repeat this process regularly just to get the fresh ghee. I anxiously waited for the day she was going to make ghee, not for the ghee but for the butter! Fresh, home-churned butter sprinkled with sugar was my one of my favorite things.
Here and now in the U.S., we usually buy homogenized milk, which does not allow you to make fresh cream at home for churning into butter. There is no home-churned butter any more for me, but on the upside, making ghee at home got a whole lot simpler. Making ghee is simple and obvious to me and almost every Indian, but I wanted to share with all the other friends or readers who've asked for the method. Here are the benefits and the method for making ghee at home, as I have posted at Naturopath.ca.
My Top 5 Recipes Using Ghee
1. Winter Dates
2. Mom's Carrot Halwa
3. Mom's Peace Kheer
4. Chikki
5. Caramelized Cardamom Banana Toast
5 comments:
Wow ghee looks awesome. I love the aromatic smell of ghee. Do u know my dad is zonal manager of a ghee company. so my five fingers are always in ghee.
I'm so excited to hear how your mum made ghee. What a process but I bet it was worth it for the butter alone! A wonderful post MPG.
Kitchen flavours - Lucky you...with five fingers in ghee ;)
Peter - Thanks! I did not plan to write that personal story initially but as I was typing the method, I could picture my childhood and had to go back and write it down :)
my mom makes ghee at home all the time, i will definitely try making the peanut chikki, thank you!
hope you enjot it naz!
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