How To Make Ghee At Home

Every household is incomplete without ghee! The aroma, taste and texture of this liquid gold are unmatched. Used for cooking, frying, eating raw and even as a skincare product, ghee is super simple to make and requires little to no effort. The best part about making ghee at home is that it is cost-effective! Let’s begin with this easy traditional homemade ghee recipe!

Benefits of ghee:

1. Ghee is rich in healthy fats. It adds good cholesterol to the body and is low in fats.
2. Ghee can strengthen the immune system as it is rich in butyric acid.
3. It is high in essential vitamins like D, K, E and A. 
4. Ghee is anti-inflammatory in nature. 
5. Ghee promotes healthy skin and hair.
6. It helps in strengthening bones. 
7. Ghee may aid in weight loss.
8. Ghee helps to treat imbalanced hormones in the body.

Ingredients to make homemade ghee (surprisingly, it only takes two things to make ghee):

1. Malai/cream (collected over 7-10 days)
2. Water

How to prepare ghee at home:

• If you are planning to make ghee at home, start collecting malai/fresh cream from milk for about 7-10 days.
• Store the malai in the refrigerator to prevent spoilage. 
• Now the first step in this recipe is to churn the collected cream. You can do this step either using either a hand churner (mathani) or a mixer.
• We used a mixer blender to churn it, but the choice is completely yours. 

• Add malai to a blender jar and blend it for a minute before adding any water to it.
• Adding water will help in separating the butter from the liquid easily. 
• Keep blending until the mixture starts to curdle. Once the liquid is separated, you can use it as buttermilk or chhaach.

• Separate the butter from the buttermilk using your hands or a muslin cloth and; squeeze out any excess liquid.
• Now add the butter to a pan and start cooking on low flame. 
• Keep the flame as low as possible throughout the cooking process to avoid burning.

• Let the butter melt properly and; keep stirring.
• After a few minutes of cooking, the butter should start clearing up and; solids will form.
• Keep stirring well.
• After 15 minutes of cooking, the butter will start to change its colour to golden yellow. 

• Turn off the heat and let it cool for a few minutes.
• Now strain the liquid from the solid parts.
• There you have your tasty and super healthy ghee ready at home in no time. 

Did you like this ghee recipe? Check out the video for the same here.