Authentic Ghee

Traditionally ghee is prepared form Cream that is being collected from the curd ( In our language we call it as perugu meegada )

If you have only cream collected from milk then you can make it into curd cream by adding little bit of curd into it and keeping it aside for 6 hours. ( Converting paala meegada to perugu meegada )

( When boiling milk you will see a thin layer forming on top, if you collect them and store, they forms the cream that is collected from milk )

Preparation time : 1 hour

Makes : 1 cup

Ingredients : 

Cream collected from curd :  2cups

Curry leaves : few 

(Actually in this we prepared it using 2 litters of cream and we got 1 kg of Ghee)

Method :

Collect the cream that is formed on curd.

Whisk it until water is separated from the cream.
You can do this by hand whisk or electric whisk or by using mixer grinder.

When you see water is separating from it, don't stop and continue whisking .....

Strain the water , and you can use this sour butter milk to prepare challa rotte, which tastes better with this butter milk.

What is left after separating or straining the butter milk from it is , Butter .

Once you got that , you should beat it with your hands for 5 mins to get nice and smooth butter with out water. Do this till , when you take butter into your wet hands it should not stick to your hands.
What you will get at the end is smooth creamy butter -- of course this is favourite of lord Sri Krishna.

Now take a pan, heat it, add this butter into it.

Let it melt, don't worry it will look like white foam.
I added curry leaves for extra flavour.
You can even use drum stick leaves or methi seeds for different flavour.
In my house they will use pan leaf ( Tamala paaku in our language) for taste.

Let it boil .

This is when it is boiled and no foam will appear on top, still you need to boil it.

It is almost 80 - 90% done, you can see clear ghee but still some curdled white thing is there.

Boil and boil it till you see clear thing.

When you see a small brown thing appearing on bottom , then stop boiling it.
You can separate those leaves that we added, They taste really good.
You can have them as it is, or if you with you can eat them with little sugar, or you can crush them and eat with rice.

Strain ghee from that brown thing , keep that brown thing for later use .
Actually that brown thing is called Godavari and you can make Godavari Laddu's with that.
Use Ghee in your cooking or in your dishes.
Enjoy your Home made Ghee :)
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