clarified butter

     

Clarifie butter is butter that has been rendered to separate the milk solids and water from the butter fat. Typically it is produced by melting butter and allowing the different components to separate by density. The water evaporates, some solids float to the surface and are skimmed off, and the remainder of the milk solids sink to the bottom and are left behind when the butter fat (which would be then on top) is poured off. The components that are not butter fat are usually discarded.

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  • Quite simply, this is melted butter with the sediment removed
  • (Emeril reads the clue once more.) To make the versatile Indian bread called naan, I use this type of butter from which solids have been removed, sometimes called ghee

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