ghee
a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
Origin of ghee
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How to use ghee in a sentence
They serve the ultimate comfort food — everything creamy, greasy, and covered in ghee.
Each layer got 15 to 20 minutes to turn brown before being bathed in yet another ghee and butter mixture — “for better viscosity and taste” — and covered with more liquid.
How I Tried (and Failed) And Tried Again to Master the Goan Bebinca Cake | Joanna Lobo | April 1, 2021 | EaterIt was the ghee that gave each layer the lovely sheen and slight caramelization, or leopard spots.
How I Tried (and Failed) And Tried Again to Master the Goan Bebinca Cake | Joanna Lobo | April 1, 2021 | EaterTo this, we added ghee, then more batter for the second layer.
How I Tried (and Failed) And Tried Again to Master the Goan Bebinca Cake | Joanna Lobo | April 1, 2021 | EaterUsing clarified butter or ghee would erase this worry, but those are items that I don’t tend to keep on hand.
How to make crispy shredded hash browns part of your breakfast rotation | Aaron Hutcherson | March 19, 2021 | Washington Post
You can also use sunflower oil or ghee, which is essentially clarified butter.
A brief search brought to light a quantity of ghee, boiled rice and dried peas.
The Red Year | Louis TracyForward goes your strength tending heavenward, rich in offerings, with the ladle full of ghee.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousThe less liquid residue, mixed with ground-nut oil, is sold as an inferior kind of ghee.
Of course a large quantity of ghee is added to it, and at the time of eating milk is taken.
The Hindoos as they Are | Shib Chunder BoseThey had a big meal, but perhaps grumbled a little at so much bread without any ghee.
Birds in London | W. H. Hudson
British Dictionary definitions for ghee
/ (ɡiː) /
butter, clarified by boiling, used in Indian cookery
Origin of ghee
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