Buying Ghee for the first time please help !

markwilkinson

As an aside, it very easy to make your own butter! When you see double cream reduced buy a pot and have a go. Pour the cream into a larger container that you can seal, jar with a lid etc. Shake the container for a period of time and the cream will separate into butter and butter milk. The butter Can be frozen.

VfM4meplse

Edwardia wrote: »

Er I think I'm too lazy to do that and besides wouldn't I have to buy a LOT of butter to make it OR buy a lot of cream then make butter then make ghee.. and then pass out from exhaustion.

I'm a SAHW but I don't think my husband expects me to be churning my own butter and making ghee somehow.

Try it with a small amount (or wait until you find a load of butter on offer), it takes minutes and you can then just walk away and leave it to set.

I personally don't like ghee, much prefer using olive oil but if you want something with a higher flashpoint than butter, ghee would be it. Although ghee is traditionally used in Indian cooking, you'll find that many prefer to cook with a little vegetable oil as it's miles healthier (less sat fat). I certainly wouldn't use it for deep frying.

Sparklyfairy

I bought mine in Morrisons - never thought of using it for anything other than a curry but now I'm keen to test it on other things!

Edwardia

Hi there VfMeplse I use olive oil and butter but when OH gets cooking they er have a tendency to burn ! As a low carber I'm a bit of a low fat heretic

Bella_b

I've seen it in Waitrose before! I went to an indian restaurant in Bristol called Thali cafe that is excellent.. and she said there are two types.. animal derived & non animal derived ghee so good for vegetarians & vegans too!

yazzine

Bought a tin of the ghee from costco last year was 1kg for 9.99 no VAT (also same price at the time in asda - just saw it too late).

I've still got most of it an it seems fine, haven't tried the yellow tub(bucket) but i do like the taste in the odd curry although taste is a little rich for me. Guests have also loved the taste of the curry.

Have you any asian neighbours? might be a better idea to mention to them that you are deciding between tthe ghees and get yourself an invite to test it for yourself? I love my neighbours just have to mention 'ooh you know what would be lovely on such a windy day a lovely chicken biryani' and come evening I end up with a container of chicken biryani!

Edwardia

Yazzine, I had a lovely Chinese neighbour once, she would see me in my garden and invite me round for lunch - she made stuff you just don't get in a Chinese restaurant was gorgeous. My neighbour wouldn't buy noodles here she said they were all rubbish quality and she would use spaghetti instead.

I looked on the internet and found www.spicesofindia.co.uk which does free delivery on orders over £30. They do have the KTC ghee several people mentioned and have Khansan ghee without the ethyl butrate which all the others seem to have.

I got that and coconut oil, mustard oil, Brooke Bond Taj Mahal tea, all sorts of stuff. Really quite excited, gonna go raid the charity shops now looking for Indian cook books.

londonTiger

ghee is supposed to be "asian cheese", to be honest, unlike European cheese, asian cheese does not have many varieties, there's only one, it's ghee.

The most common one is the one that comes in a tin, in two metallic greens and a picture of a cow in the middle.

londonTiger

btw here's a website with the ghee I'm talking about
http://www.sopinternational.com/d-sop51-khanum-khanum-pure-butter-ghee/

londonTiger

To add to the discussion of whether "low fat is good for you or not", this is complete baloney.

Fat does not make you fat, it's the sugars, simple carbs and trans fats that make you fat.

Trans fats are made from heating vegetabkle oils in high temperates which makes them hard, they're used for baking because they dry up real nice, are well preserved and cracte that crackling.. But it's so bad for you that once it enters you body it'#s practically impossible to get out.

With regards to "low fat".. well let me just put it this way, in the 60s and 70s people had sausages, bacon strips, 2 eggs and a small serving of beans for breakfast, there was no obesity epidemic. [on a high fat high protein diet]

Nowadays people have cornflakes, bread, wheat, oats etc for breakfast (high carbs, "low fat"). Yet we have an obesity epidemic.

In the office I work with, people snack on carbohydrates all day, crisps, chocolate etc, most of which is low fat. In fact it's very rare for anyone to eat satured fat, but most of them are fat.

A high protein and high fat diet does not make you fat, a high carbohydrate diet does. Because carbohydrates get processed by the body much faster than protein and fat, and the body has to do something with the carbs so it stores it...

In the absense of carbs, the body gets all its nutrition from fat and protein, fat burns slow in the stomach so it suppresses appetite and the body can "drip" energy out of it..

I'm going into another discussions altogether withregards to ketosis and stuff so I'll stop here.