Clarified butter – Ghee butter

A unique feature of clarified butter (ghee), which is deprived the milk solids are its medicinal properties, that saturated fats usually lack.

Butter fat is considered to be in Ayurvedic (Indian)  kitchen, as rejuvenating product. Properly prepared it is easily digestible and it strengthens the digestive organs of your system.

Clarified butter can be used for:

• Stewing,
• Baking,
• A food additive
• Soups,
• For sandwiches

Clarified butter (ghee) can be purchased at online stores and healthy food stores. Also you can get Mlekovita clarified butter in supermarkets! (but they are in plastic material)

Recipe by Dr. Z. Kubata

• 2 To 4 cubes of fresh butter (not salted could be good quality extra butter.
• Butter cut into tiny pieces, put into the pot in which you will melt butter.
• To a butter in a pot add cold water, drain, repeat this process until the water will be clear, and thereby the remnants of milk (cream) will flushed out.
• So you should boil ghee as long as you will not stop to hear “the sound of cooking”, and the water will not evaporate completely.
• Strain them to a jar by pure linen or cotton cloth or a coffee filter paper.
• Pass the small amount into a smaller jar.
• Butter has a long shelf life, do not keep it in the fridge (unless it’s the Mlekivita butter bought in a store)

PROPERTIES:

• It’s digested easier than traditional butter and vegetable oils
• Anti-inflammatory
• Restores balance in the body – Ayurveda (Hindi) doctors use it for everything – starting with skin rejuvenation and regulating endocrine
• Increases the flexibility of the connective tissue
• Adds vigor-improves the immune system.
• Supports digestion and accelerates metabolism. Clarified butter balances the excess of gastric acid
• Supports absorption of vitamins A, D, E, K that are fat-soluble
• Light burns: Like aloe, ghee helps in wound healing both burns and others, if it is applied quickly to the damaged area of ​​the skin
• Clarified butter ghee helps learning by improving your memory.
• Has healing properties with peptic ulcer, constipation, skin and eye diseases
• Has skin smoothing properties
• It’s rich in antioxidants
• Has antiviral properties
• Clarified butter also lowers cholesterol.

Ghee makes food absorption of food easier, enhances their flavor, and while stewing retains vitamins in the diet. Butter also improves eyesight and it also works as a natural means eliminating free radicals and protects the cells. Traditional Ayurvedic medicine says, however, that eating ghee restores potency and sexual activity, improves wound healing process and increases concentration.