Making of Ghee / Clarified Butter / Nei Kaaichum Vidham

When I got married I didn't know of how to do it when I tried it either remains uncooked or it turned brown.My husbands grand mother taught me how to make ghee out of butter.

Ingredients:

Unsalted Butter - 200gms or two sticks

Curry leaves - 4 nos

Salt - 1/2 teaspoon

Drumstick leaves - 7 nos

Method:

1.Take the butter out off fridge and keep it out for 1/2 an hr so that it gets soft.

2.Take vessel with thick base and add the butter in a medium fire stir the butter .Initially the butter when it gets melted it will look like thick yellow liquid with lot of butter still floating as shown in first picture.

3.When the butter is half cooked it will be a thick yellow liquid.Now add the salt.Keep stirring the butter.

4.In a 5 mins he butter will become transparent yellow liquid .Now if you add the drumstick leaves and curry leaves it will splatter his shows that the ghee is ready.

Note :

1.If you cook in high flame the butter will get burnt and it turn brown.

2.If you don't stir then the butter will stay at the bottom,it will not get cooked.

4.Curry leaves and drumstick leaves or optional if you use hem they will give good flavour to the ghee.

5.If you use salted butter then the ghee will be too salty.