clarified butter
Milk-solids-free spread
Clarified butter is butter that has been melted and separated from its milk solids and water, leaving pure golden butterfat.
It has a higher smoke point than regular butter, making it ideal for frying and sautéing.
In Indian cuisine, clarified butter is called ghee and is cooked longer for a nuttier flavor: She fried the spices in clarified butter.
- gheeButter with milk removed
- hollandaiseEmulsified butter-egg sauce
- milk solidsNon-liquid dairy components
- lactose-freeLacking milk sugar
- nutty flavorTaste like almonds
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- dairymilk, cream, cheese, yogurt, sour cream
- dairy productscheese, yogurt, milk powder, cream, whole milk
- seafood sidestartar sauce, cocktail sauce, lemon, lemon wedge, horseradish
- animal fatslard, tallow, suet, schmaltz, ghee
- buttermakingchurn, churning, dasher, plunger, kneading
- buttersghee
clarified buttercompound butter
Butter with mixed-in ingredients
cultured butter · salted butter · raw butter · whipped butter
clarified buttervegetable oil
Plant-derived culinary lipid
olive oil · coconut oil · margarine · lard · tallow
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