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    Home » Recipes » DIY » Homemade Ghee | How to make Ghee in Home

    Homemade Ghee | How to make Ghee in Home

    Posted on Mar 13, 2019 · Last Updated on Jan 23, 2022 by sharmila kingsly

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    Homemade Ghee

    Homemade Ghee Recipe | How to make Ghee in Home with step by step pictures. Making ghee in home is an easy DIY. All you need to do is to collect the malai regularly from the milk and then you can prepare your own homemade ghee. It is so flavourful and fresh also very cheap when compared to the homemade ghee. Now lets see how to prepare Ghee in home. 

    I have already posted homemade Butter Recipe . Check that out to get a clear idea on butter recipe

    Homemade Ghee

    This is how th e ghee looks after 2 days. Slowly it gets the grainy texture. On preparing it resembles the clear golden liquid. Slowly the color and the texture Changes.

     
    Homemade Ghee Recipe | How to make Ghee in Home
       Step by step Method with pictures: 
         1.    Collect the malai from the milk daily and store in the fridge .When it reaches a good quantity. Get ready with the malai to prepare homemade ghee.

     2.    Take the collected malai in a blender and blend it. Slowly the malai starts to leaves the excess water and becomes a thick mass. Continue to blend for a interval of 30 secs and check once.

      3.    The thick mass formed is the butter and the liquid is the butter milk. At one stage the buttermilk and the butter separates completely.

    4.    Remove it from the blender at this time and transfer to a kitchen towel or muslin cloth. Now add the ice cubes at this stage and close the kitchen towel for a min. This will make the butter firm. Using the kitchen cloth separate the butter and buttermilk completely.

    5.    The butter will be little watery so with the kitchen towel squeeze out the excess water complexly. This is the homemade butter and we can prepare ghee from this. The excess buttermilk can be used in gravies or even to knead the dough. Also it may taste sour so cannot be had directly.

     6.    Heat a pan add in the butter and cook in a low flame. The butter will start to bubble up and comes to the golden yellow colour.

      7.    It will appear cloudy and the milk solids from the butter will be floating on the top on further cooking the milk solids disappear and the ghee starts to become clear.

    8.    At once stage the milk solids will be complete gone and ghee becomes clear and the residue gets settles in the bottom on the pan add the drumstick leaves and curry leaves if using at this stage and switch off the flame.

    9.    Allow it to cool down and strain to remove the leaves .Pure homemade ghee is ready .Store it a clear bottle.

    Flavorful homemade ghee is now ready.
    Homemade Ghee

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    Homemade Ghee

    Homemade Ghee is a pure delight .It is so flavorful and divine. All you need to do is to collect the malai regularly from the milk and then you can prepare your homemade ghee
    Prep Time10 minutes mins
    Cook Time20 minutes mins
    Course: Condiments
    Cuisine: Indian
    Servings: 1 cup
    Calories:
    Author: sharmila kingsly
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    Standard 1 cup measures 240 ml

    Ingredients

    • Malai – 1 cup
    • Ice cubes – few
    • Drumstick leaves – 1 tsp optional
    • Curry leaves – 5-8 optional

    Instructions 

    • Collect the malai from the milk daily and store in the fridge .When it reaches a good quantity. Get ready with the malai to prepare homemade ghee.
    • Take the collected malai in a blender and blend it. Slowly the malai starts to leaves the excess water and becomes a thick mass. Continue to blend for a interval of 30 secs and check once.
    • The thick mass formed is the butter and the liquid is the butter milk. At one stage the buttermilk and the butter separates completely.
    • Remove it from the blender at this time and transfer to a kitchen towel or muslin cloth. Now add the ice cubes at this stage and close the kitchen towel for a min. This will make the butter firm. Using the kitchen cloth separate the butter and buttermilk completely.
    • The butter will be little watery so with the kitchen towel squeeze out the excess water complexly. This is the homemade butter and we can prepare ghee from this. The excess buttermilk can be used in gravies or even to knead the dough. Also it may taste sour so cannot be had directly.
    • Heat a pan add in the butter and cook in a low flame. The butter will start to bubble up and comes to the golden yellow colour.
    • It will appear cloudy and the milk solids from the butter will be floating on the top on further cooking the milk solids disappear and the ghee starts to become clear.
    • At once stage the milk solids will be complete gone and ghee becomes clear and the residue gets settles in the bottom on the pan add the drumstick leaves and curry leaves if using at this stage and switch off the flame.
    • Allow it to cool down and strain to remove the leaves .Pure homemade ghee is ready .Store it a clear bottle.

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    Notes

    •  The malai collected from milk is the homemade cream and you can use it in cooking.
    •  The residue got while preparing ghee is edible and can be mixing with rice and consumed.
    •  The buttermilk got while preparing butter can be used in kneading dough.
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