How to make Ghee? Various options...


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Surti   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 02-08-06 11:43:01

Ghee, being an important ingredient of our food, it should be worth exploring various options in this country.

We tried various ways of using Ghee over the years in Canada/US. I just like to share them with all CDs.

Option 1. Buy the ghee from the Indian grocery stores. This is a good option but not always cheap. We also had not good experiences with all the brands.

Option 2. Buy unsalted butter from Canadian grocery stores and evaporate water. When the butter is cheap (on sale) this is cheaper option. Many places in the US having butter damn cheap.

Option 3. Use butter directly. This is not always a solution, especially while making some of the Indian sweets.

Option 4: (For health cautiaus people) Use unsalted cholesterol free margarine and evaporate the water. It will make a liquid like ghee. This works great and we are even making sweets using it.

What are your experiences?


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Surti   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 03-08-06 07:34:24


It seems no body is eating Ghee in Canada except us :(


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BlueLobster   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 03-08-06 08:19:57

Its Option 2 at my place.

Although we buy butter from Canada, I've never gone to the US to buy butter :p


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Pink Panther   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 03-08-06 11:06:00



I don't use ghee at all in my cooking, only for my divas when I pray. Or at diwali for all the divas. Other than that it's sunflower oil or vegetable oil, whichever I happen to get my hands on, although I hear sunflower oil is better for you.

I sometimes use butter in cooking, mostly for Indian chicken dishes or in baking cakes. If I'm not making Indian food, I use olive oil.

I once tried to make ghee from butter and although the texture and smell was the same as normal ghee, the colour turned out to be white. :confused: Not quite sure why. My "white ghee" is finished now but I will probably just go buy it from the store this time. You're right, it can be quite expensive if you use it regularly.

If I were you, I would just buy ready made, cuts out the hassle of making it as that is quite time consuming. My mum always made ghee at home in the UK, where you could buy butter on sale for 11 pence a packet. That's around 30 cents a packet here. Not bad!


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Garvo Gujarati   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 03-08-06 11:45:32

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Originally posted by Pink Panther


I don't use ghee at all in my cooking



How do you make sweets? Laddu? using Sunflower oil?


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Pink Panther   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 03-08-06 12:01:51

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Originally posted by Garvo Gujarati

Quote:
Originally posted by Pink Panther


I don't use ghee at all in my cooking



How do you make sweets? Laddu? using Sunflower oil?



I don't make indian sweets. I just buy them. Alhough I do make kulfi, but you don't need ghee for that.

I sometimes use Gits packets for gulab jamuns. You just need to make the syrup for that and again, no need for ghee.


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Surti   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 04-08-06 12:50:15


I came across a family that was using oil to make our typical sweets like besan laddu etc. I was quite surprised. People having trouble with Ghee (or fat in general) should try making sweets from margarine.


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