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Make clarified butter (ghee)

Clarified butter or ghee, as it's known in India, is used when you want to fry something in butter for an extended time or at a high heat. You still get the delicious butter flavour and golden, crisp colour and texture, but without the taste of burnt butter.

For clarified butter (ghee), slowly melt unsalted butter over low heat. Don't let the butter come to a boil, and don't stir it. This allows the milk solids, that burn the fastest, to separate from the liquid butter.

Once the butter has separated into three layers, there will be foamy milk solids on top, clarified butter in the middle, and milk solids on the bottom. Turn off the heat and skim the foamy white solids from the top. Then ladle off the clarified butter. Be careful not to disturb the milk solids at the bottom of the pan.

Clarified butter can be used immediately. Or, let it solidify and keep it in the refrigerator for up to three to four weeks. Just remelt to use. One pound of unsalted butter yields 1-1/4 cups clarified butter.

Tip: you can flavour your clarified butter to use in just about any dish. One example is Ethiopian nitr kibbeh - clarified butter infused with onions, garlic, ginger, black pepper, and turmeric. Cardamom, star anise or fenugreek can also be added. It's used as a spread or to fry off onions or sauté meat and is absolutely delicious.

Use ghee to cook Indian chana magaj 

 



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Recipe by: Mariana Esterhuizen
Serves: 4
Allergens: Wheat free / Gluten free
Dietary considerations: Low carb
Category: Vegetarian / Easy / Kid-friendly / Quick
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
Butter to coat ramekins
salt flakes, to taste
freshly- ground pepper, to taste (optional with watercress)
50 g watercress
40 g organic cheddar cheese, finely grated
4 jumbo eggs
45 ml fresh cream
Cooking instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Generously coat the inside of the ramekins with butter. Sprinkle salt flakes and pepper evenly into the ramekins. Rinse the watercress and place it in a saucepan without water.

Cook briefly over a medium heat until the leaves collapse but are still bright green. Then blend the leaves to a purée and divide between the ramekins.

Sprinkle half of the grated cheese over the purée and break an egg into each ramekin.

Now pour cream on top. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese over the cream. Stand the ramekins in an oven-proof dish and add enough boiling water to come half-way up their sides.  

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes for soft eggs, or 18 minutes if you prefer them set.

Cook’s tip:  Watercress seed is freely available and the plant is easily grown in shallow, running water. Plant your own around a water feature or a small pond in your garden and harvest as required. There’s a health bonus in it too – watercress is packed with vitamin C and iron.
 


Mariana Esterhuizen is the owner/chef of Mariana's
Home Deli and Bistro in Stanford. You can call her on
(028) 341-0272.

 



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