Desi Ghee - The Secret Ingredient of Quality Indian Dishes At Home!

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Ghee is healthy clarified butter originated in ancient India. Indian ghee is used as an ingredient in traditional dishes for frying. It is important to look for good quality source of ghee, because all the ghee’s are not really good.

Rich and silky flavour of ghee adds extreme flavour to Indian Food and it possesses a rich buttery flavor that turns plain meal into culinary dishes. When you cook in ghee, it produces sweet aroma when heated. It stimulates digestive fibre according to Ayurveda.

Ghee is also known as clarified butter, seafood butter, drawn butter and in India & South Asian countries, it is also known as Desi Ghee, Pure Ghee, Asli Ghee. Ghee is a gluten free dairy product. One is golden colored ghee prepared from melting and simmering unsalted butter until all the water evaporates and remaining settle at the bottom. Pure Butter Ghee is difficult to find everywhere, and so in Germany; hence there is Indian grocery store – Fnbbasket for the Indians to not miss their taste.

Benefits of Ghee -

· Ghee is one of the best versatile oil for cooking with a smoke point above 475 degree Fahrenheit.

· Ghee is considered to be one of the safe ingredient that does not contain any harmful trans fats or hydrogenated oils which can cause many health problems.

· Cow Ghee is considered to be sattvic food in Ayurveda. Cow ghee possesses the essence of cow milk.

· Ghee can be stored in the pantry at room temperature for months or years, it does not get rancid.

· Ghee contains healthy fat soluble vitamins which aids in the absorption of nutrients that are essential for good health. Rarity in ghee is beneficial for digestion.

How to know that you are buying the best Ghee in Germany?

There we have many types of ghee available, among which we have Vanaspati ghee one of the known ghee in India. This is not quality ghee, it is partially or fully made from hydrogenated vegetable oil. And the other we have is palm oil, this is usually solid at room temperature. If you are buying this one, you are buying one of the unhealthy oil.

Read the ingredients carefully before buying ghee.

Buffalo Milk Ghee

It is not like buying buffalo milk is not a good idea, but once you use cow milk ghee, I am sure you are not going to buy buffalo ghee.

In India, half of the production of ghee is from buffalo mil. According to Ayurveda doctors, buffalo milk does not have same purifying and healing qualities as of cow’s milk.

So if you want to use real thing, go for cow milk. Cow milk ghee is golden in color and buffalo milk ghee is yellowish or whitish in color.

Having Ghee in your diet is not bad?

There we have some fixed macro nutrients that are required in our diet – Carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Fat is also required in a limited quantity for normal metabolism and insulation. Also it’s a source of energy and it maintains body temperature. Ghee contains saturated fat and cholesterol, having this in some fixed amount is the necessity of body. Ghee definitely score higher than having refined oil like sunflower or safflower. Ghee is rich source of mono-saturated and poly-saturated fats which are good for health.

Pure Indian’s food ghee is truly pure. Using ghee is good for health and it never effects your balanced diet. You can have the best Indian Desi ghee in Germany at Fnbbasket in few clicks at your own place.