I’ve made ghee before, but it was only a very small quantity. It turned out ok but I think I didn’t cook it long enough nor strained it properly. From that point, I decided to give this another try and it would be better.
I almost ran out of it so yesterday I had to make a quick run to TJ store to get lbs of Kerrygold unsalted butter so I could replenish my ghee stash.
Ghee
Ingredients:
1 lb of unsalted butter (pastured, grass fed would be the best)
a pot
Directions:
1. Melt the butter on the pot in low heat – no need to pre heat the pot prior and no need to bring the butter to room temperature
2. Keep the heat low- the butter will melt and eventually the protein would start to separate
3. I tried my best not to scoop the “white part”
4. The last part was the hardest.
5. So I just put them in the small jar
Do you see the white part underneath? Yup that’s the “milk” part and the top part is the oil – which is the one that you’d use for cooking.
I tried to use coffee strainer and mesh to strain it, but it wasn’t that great. I could still see the “milk part” sneaked through so I figured I just scooped out the oil.
Anyway, now I had my ghee fully stacked and hopefully it’ll last for at least 2 weeks?
TJ has the most reasonable price for Kerrygold butter, but I think it was still quite pricey (8oz for $2.79?) I saw Costco carries it too but only the salted ones. I read on Paleohacks.com that it doesn’t matter whether using salted/unsalted butter to make ghee.
Shu Han Lee
March 7, 2011 at 3:22 pm
yup it’s made from milk from the cows from the normandy region of france which is pretty much all grasfed (: but yup stick to kerrygold if you can find it cheap anyway! (:
Shu Han Lee
March 7, 2011 at 2:32 am
Hi there! Great job! I did this last year too, but liek you, can’t manage to separate out the white milk solids properly, so it didn’t keep as long as I would like ): I can get kerrygold butter in london for just a bit over a pound for a block, so it’s very cheap
Some brands I’ve researched to be grassfed are lurpak, anchor, president, and yeo valley so maybe you could try them out? (funnily, kerrygold’s the cheapest of them all so I just get kerrygold)
Jos
March 7, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Thanks for the info! I knew Anchor brand when I was in Indo before, but I think over here KG is actually cheaper and more widely available. Is President also grass fed? I used to buy their cheese spread – so good but too bad too much chemical stuff in there so I stop buying it.
Kath (My Funny Little Life)
February 28, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Great job, Jos!
Jos
February 28, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Thanks!
Pupcake
February 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
I’ve made ghee with salted and unsalted and honestly, the only difference I ever find is that the white milk/whey solids carry the salt with them. (Then they’re too salty to eat, haha!)
Jos
February 28, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Cool! Thanks for the info!