Cooking with ghee - 11 recipes
By lazar
The recipe for ghee, or clarified butter, is actually surprisingly simple. When I started making my own ghee at home, it elevated my Indian cooking to a whole new level. If you do decide to go the homemade route, ghee can be kept in a jar in your fridge for as long as you would keep butter, probably even longer! But if you don't have the courage to make it yourself, don't fret, because store bought ghee is just as good. So if you've ever find yourself wondering why sometimes your Indian dishes don't taste as authentic as you'd like, or that they’re missing something that you just can’t seem to put your finger on, then ghee is the secret ingredient that you have been missing.
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Ready to try these quick and tasty smashed potato cakes?
Ingredients
- 5 large potatoes
- 1/2 cup parsley
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1/2 cup cilantro
- 2 cups shredded cheese
- 1 cup milk
- Sour cream
method
- Boil and drain the potatoes
- In a mixing bowl, combine the potatoes with parsley, minced garlic, cilantro, shredded cheese and milk.
- Mash the mixture thoroughly.
- Shape into palm-sized balls, then flatten on a sheet pan
- Put in oven for 20 min at 355° F
- Layer, spreading generously with sour cream
- Garnish, and enjoy!
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Sirnee
By shafeeza123
This delicious Muslim treat will impress your taste buds with its exotic and sweet sweet tastes
- 1/2 lb Butter
- 1/4 lb Ghee
- 1/2 lb Flour
- pinch of Nutmeg
- 1 Egg
- 1 Carnation Milk
- 2-3 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Custard Powder
- Raisins
- Cherries
- A few drops of essence
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Mysorepaku
By Aanthai
In a pan start frying the flour in 1/2 the amount of ghee
- Kadalai mavu or bengal gram flour -1 cup.
- Sugar - 3 cups.
- Ghee - 3 cups.
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Thengai poornam
By Aanthai
Made for Vinayagar Chaturthi
- 1. For Thengai poornam:
- Shredded coconut - 1 cup
- Jaggery - 1/2 cup
- Ghee - 1 teaspoon
- Elachi - 1 teaspoon
- 2. For kolukkattai:
- Raw rice: rinsed in water and dried...Grind it.
- Water.
- Salt and gingely Oil.
Carrot halwa
By Aanthai
Cook carrot in milk
- Carrot 1 cup
- Sugar 1 cups
- Cashew nuts 1/4 cup fried in ghee
- condensed milk 1 cup
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By Pascale Weeks
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By Popkrispy
Sift dry ingredients together
- 2-3 cups flour
- Salt to taste
- +- 1 cup boiled milk
- 1tbs ghee/butter
- I packet yeast
- 1 tsp thyme
Aval payasam
By Aanthai
cook Aval in milk till it becomes tender
- Aval (flattened rice) 1 cup
- sugar 1 and half cup
- ghee 1/4 cup
- milk 3 cups
- elachi 1 spoon
Apple halwa
By Aanthai
Add just enough water to sugar and make a sugar syrup
- Shredded apple 1 cup
- Sugar 1 cup
- Ghee 1 cup
- Cashew nuts 1/4 cup fried in ghee
Akkara vadisal... A sweet rice pudding
By Aanthai
Pressure cook rice and mash it
- Rice - 1/3 cup which cooks to 1 cup
- Jaggery - 1 1/2 cup
- Ghee - 2 tablespoons
- Cashews - 1/2 cup
- Elachi - 1 teaspoon
Sweet Potato Halwa
By Aanthai
Cook sweet potatoes and mash into a fine paste
- Sweet potato - 2 medium sized.
- Jaggery - 1/2 cup.
- Ghee - 1 tablespoon.
- Elachi - 1/2 teaspoon.
Deepavali lehiyam
By Aanthai
Deepavali is an occasion for all fried snacks
- Ginger(cut to 1/2" pieces) - 1/2 cup
- Jeera -1/4 cup
- Jaggery - around 1 cup
- Ghee - 1 teaspoon
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