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If you’ve spent any time cooking Indian food — or hanging out in Indian groceries and markets — then you’ll be familiar with ghee, the Indian style of clarified butter. Like clarified butter, ghee is butter that’s been long-simmered until the milk solids have separated, then strained.

Nutty and wonderfully aromatic, it’s used in cooking and baking as it has a much higher smoke point than regular butter. Unlike clarified butter, ghee is often cultured or flavored. Traditionally made with raw milk, ghee is also considered sacred (see: cows in India) and therapeutic in some Ayurvedic medicines.

So what to do with ghee? If you’re not well versed in Indian cuisine, you may not immediately know. You can use it as you would have used clarified butter, which is terrific for sauteing things, and in baking. There are few reasons why chefs like to induse Ghee in their recipes :

1. Contains Alkalizing Short-Chained Fats:Ghee contain short chain fatty acid found in dairy products, and acids as food for colonocytes, the cells of your colon ; it doesn’t seems to raise cholesterol in the same way butter does. In short it improve your digestive capability. “Really good ghee made from high-quality, grass-fed butter has quite a bit of vitamins A, E, and K2 and twice the short- and medium-chain fatty acids that butter has,” Dave Asprey, the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Coffee

2. Its high smoke point—485 degrees to be exact—means it works in countless cooking applications. This help food to absorb the smoke a little bit better than oil. Ghee does not burn like butter.

3. Lactose Free :Ghee is both lactose- and casein-free; both of these elements of butter are removed during the clarifying process. Because of this, ghee can often be enjoyed by those who cannot consume other dairy products.

4. Rich in Metabolism-Boosting Medium-Chain Fats: Ghee is also rich in medium-chain fatty acids which, like carbohydrates, are absorbed directly into the liver and metabolized as energy.

5. High in CLA: An additional fat that is particularly present in grass-fed ghee is conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a fatty acid that has been associated with anti-cancer and weight loss benefits.

Ghee is said to be the ‘ideal cooking oil’ because of its many healing properties. It aids in digestion because of its light flavor. It also helps to improve absorption and increase the life energy force. It improves our memory, strengthens the brain, nervous and immune system. Ghee lubricates joints and connective tissues, which makes the body flexible. It also helps in stimulating a healthy flow of fluids throughout the body. But, Ghee should be Pure Desi Cow Milk Ghee, which has its own health benefits too.  8 Health Benefits Of Desi Ghee | Suresh Foods