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A jar of homemade ghee

Easy Homemade Ghee Recipe

This easy recipe will show you how to stock your kitchen with your own homemade ghee. Ghee is a healthy cooking fat with a high smoke point and tons of nutty flavor. It is a wonderful ingredient to add to your cooking arsenal.
Prep Time 2 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 2 minutes
Serving Size 1 pint

Ingredients

  • 16 oz Butter

Instructions

  • Cube butter and add to your sauce pan.
  • Turn heat to low and allow the butter to melt. Do not stir!
  • After the butter has melted, periodically skim the foam from the top of the ghee until it stops foaming. This may take a few hours.
  • After skimming the foam, look at the milk solids forming on the bottom of the pot under the ghee. For milder ghee, it will be done with these solids are lighter. For nuttier ghee, allow the solids to darken.
  • When the milk solids are cooked to your preference, prepare your jar by placing the funnel, strainer, and cheese cloth over the jar.
  • Allow the ghee to cool for 5 minutes to ensure the glass jar won't break.
  • Pour the ghee through the cheese cloth & strainer into the jar. If poured slowly, the milk solids will remain at the bottom of the pot.

Notes

  • Cut your butter into even pieces to ensure even melting.
  • Resist the urge to stir!! The magic of this recipe happens when they layers are allowed to fully separate.
  • This recipe can be followed using any amount of butter to start. Decide how much ghee you'd like to get, then use a similar amount of butter.
  • The yield of ghee from butter is almost 1:1.