Making Ghee

Most people I know today do not know how ghee is made from butter. It is a very simple process where large amounts of butter is heated continuously until a clear liquid is obtained and the solids separate out from it.

The process of making ghee takes me back to my childhood days when the aroma of fresh ghee used to fill the house every Friday morning. My mom used to make fresh ghee for the diyas (oil lamps) on Fridays. She used to light ghee lamps on every Friday. She never used the old batch of ghee because it was already used by us for cooking / eating.


The wafting aroma of fresh ghee used to get me and my sister running downstairs to the kitchen so that we could eat the remaining solids from the batch. We used to get both the fresh burnt solids / the burnt solids from the previous batch which would settle down in the ghee container and we wont get to eat it until all the ghee was empty. We used to call it "MaDDi". Although burnt, it was super yummy and both we sisters used to love it... me more than her :P

Today I woke up early in the morning and felt like preparing ghee. Ghee in the house was empty since a week and I was waiting for the right time I guess :P to make a fresh batch. Anyways, here is the recipe for making ghee. Do try it at home. Its super simple and takes hardly 15 mins of your time.