We've had the butter vs Margarine - How abt Ghee vs Butter?

ShrodingersCat SG

It's supposed to be more flavoursome in cooking, no lactose for the lactose intolerant, higher burning point so you can do more types of cooking in it, and have wonderful ayurvedic qualities.

I dont know about the rest of you, but for YEARS in primary school, I have been taught LARD is fat from pig, and GHEE is fat from cow. No one ever told me ghee is actually clarified butter.

But.. I have never used ghee myself so wonder if anyone have tried? Share leh.

The man who was death SG

Ghee is = planta??

FireIce SG

ba you pok!!!

i used to hate it

but im now learning to love it.........

skeujin SG

ghee is wat makes suji biscuits great.... Razz

ShrodingersCat SG

nono.. ghee is NOT planta and it is NOT ba you pok

ghee is made from cow's milk (the same as butter)
except that after butter is formed, it is heated to remove the milk solids that is present in butter to make it a purer form of butter. That is why it is called Clarified Butter.

PLanta is shortening or margarine. High amount of transfat. Bad for health.

And ba you pok is... ehh.. pork fat. lard.

skeujin SG

x2...!!!!!!

bak chor mee pok! bak you pok chuay chuay!!!! Twisted Evil

The man who was death SG

sorry then. then i must have never eaten ghee before, but i like planta in roti prata Mr. Green

TehJarVu SG

i like ba you pok too!

but ghee? isn't it what makes indians so fat?

ShrodingersCat SG

Indians mostly use it in their cooking. Western cooking calls it just Clarified butter. And then sells it at double the price la.

Kuali Baba SG

Raw fat from beef or mutton is called suet, and when it's rendered it's called tallow.

the Bear SG

ghee is dairy product!

clarified butter..

i like both.. the taste different and they are not really used to sub for each other...

i tried prata with butter.. not as good as prata with ghee..

elindra SG

Ghee smells like butter Mr. Green

Master -_- SG

ghee is good with lasagne!!!!!!! tried it, eat that Laughing

Rhonda SG

Surprised

Shocked Shocked

One of my Primary School English teachers taught us that ghee was solidified fat from the lamb!! Shocked Shocked Now, I know that she's terribly wrong, and she has misled me and my entire class, but goddness knows how many other classes, into thinking the WRONG THING!! Shocked Shocked

ShrodingersCat SG

eh mebbe we from same primary school

I'm from Marymount COnvent.. :O yes believe it or not.. with real nuns.

the Bear SG

always have a mind that questions and then goes and finds out what is actually going on Wink

looks like shro-cat and our cult leader both led sheltered lives Twisted Evil

Laughing

littlestream SG

I use ghee for peanut suji. Mixed it with icing sugar, it gives a creamy and smooth paste. Then, throw in flour with crushed peanuts and viola!!! Peanut sugee! And sedap banyak banyak!!! Wink

And it is expensive. A 500ml bottle cost almost C$7.

Rhonda SG

Mad

Wei! Wei!! Unlike you, who appear to be like some child-prodigy, I was a sweet-natured, quiet li'l kid who obeyed the elders and never questioned the lao shi's! So, my fault, izzit, that I was a good kid?! Evil or Very Mad

Razz pthpth!!

Rhonda SG

Orh... so, where does ghee stand in terms of cholesterol count? Confused

ShrodingersCat SG

yalor yalor... plus the fact that I was too busy playing bumper cars, not doing home work, passing secret messages to friends, playing with my hair, roller skating, coping with various insecurities, dooodling in the textbook and all these important things to what.. CHECK what ghee is?!

priorities! A primary school girl has PRIORITIES! And ghee.. my friend.. is not one of them.