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Ghee is Indian clarified butter, or you can say butter with broken-down milk solids. Regular butter is made by pasteurising milk cream and churning it until the yellow grains form in the whey. Ghee is made with one extra step, that is heating it on a high flame until milk solids and fats separate. Pure fat without milk solids gains a nutty, caramelly, and deep flavour, and its smoke point is much higher which makes it suitable for cooking many curries, salutes and deep frying too.
If you are new to ghee, you may be sceptical about the taste and texture it will bring to your dishes. Also, you might be worried about side effects if you are lactose intolerant. As the above process clarifies ghee is pure fat separated from milk solids, it is completely lactose-free and may be a good substitute for ultra-processed dairy-free butter. Making ghee at home is also very easy and you can make it from milk cream from scratch.
Even though ghee is fat, it has some brilliant health benefits that can be a nutritious addition to your diet. In Ayurvedic sciences, ghee is used in several medicines to treat a variety of ailments, including healing wounds, increasing collagen in the skin and strengthening the immune system. Ghee can also support your weight loss journey as it reduces body fat and promotes lean muscle mass. After reading all these tempting health benefits of eating ghee 
regularly, know about the ways in which you can include it in your meals.
7 Ways To Apply Ghee In Regular Use
1) Saute Vegetables
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Ghee is a perfect substitute for oil for making sauteed vegetables. Ghee adds nutritional benefits to vegetables and its high smoke point ensures veggies cook evenly without burning. Just a spoonful of ghee is enough to make the saute, and it turns out delicious.
2) Deep Frying
The high smoke point of ghee makes it a perfect substitute for deep frying. Ayurveda suggests ghee as a better option for making deep-fried treats. Its anti-inflammatory properties make every item you deep fry potentially healthier than oil-fried treats. Since ghee remains stable at high temperatures, it allows even cooking without burning and tastes better than oil.
3) Make Confit
Ghee can be used for making garlic confit. Ghee and garlic together work as a remedy to ward off illness and fevers. Plus the deep taste of ghee melds perfectly with the pungency of garlic and brings warming flavours to every recipe you put this into.
4) Prepare Desserts
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Ghee is widely used in India and other countries to prepare desserts for festivities. From laddoos to kheer, the generous use of ghee derives delicate flavours in every recipe. Apart from Indian desserts, ghee is perfect for Western treats like puddings, cake, baklava, basque cream desserts, and so on.
5) Salad Dressing
While olive oil is a popular dressing for salad due to its mild and neutral flavour along with light consistency, ghee 
can add a new definition to your salads by infusing a warming flavour. Even though ghee has a nutty flavour, it melds perfectly with salad and spices.
6) Baking
Ghee is perfectly suitable for making a variety of baked goods like cake, sourdough bread, focaccia, baguette, muffins and many more. It acts as a flavourful substitute for butter and oil and infuses a beautiful and mildly nutty flavour to every baked treat you make.
7) Pan Frying
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When you are pan-frying tortillas, croquettes, cutlets, pita bread or crepes, you can use ghee for greasing and frying. You may not know that ghee can bring a delightful crispy crust, much better than butter and oil, and only a small amount of ghee
is sufficient to spread to the entire pan, which makes it comparatively healthy and with fewer fats.
No matter how much you sing the praises of ghee, its benefits seem endless. Thanks to its versatility, it can be used in many many ways and incorporated seamlessly into your daily cooking.
