VIDEO: Make clarified butter yourself

Clarified butter is, strictly speaking, concentrated butter. You get it by making butter from water, Milk protein and sugar free. Clarified butter has a slightly nutty taste and is ideal as frying fat, as it can be heated to an extremely high temperature. Indian ghee is known as a special form of clarified butter. Clarified butter is also very easy to make yourself.

Homemade clarified butter - instructions

1. First, cut the cold butter into small pieces. Use about as many grams of butter as you need for clarified butter. The ratio is about 1: 1.
2. To make clarified butter, put butter in a saucepan and let it melt slowly over a low heat. The pot should be as high as possible.
3. Raise the heat on the stovetop so that you bring the butter to a simmer. This will cause the water in the butter to evaporate. The protein in the butter will settle on the bottom of the pot.
4. If foam forms on the surface, reduce the heat and remove the lid of the pot.


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5. Now, in between, skim off the foam that forms on the surface of the simmering butter. This process can take some time as you must not overheat the butter.
6. Wait until all the water has evaporated. Your clarified butter is ready when a golden, clear color forms.
7. You can now pass the butter through a very fine sieve if you want to remove residues from the clarified butter.
8. Finally, pour the clarified butter into a storage container. Mason jars, for example, are suitable for this. Let your finished clarified butter cool down without a lid.
9. Save the clarified butter in the refrigerator on. It can be kept there for up to a year.

Have fun trying!