Butter is one of the important dietary article. There are different opinion on How to make butter. Here is the Ayurvedic method of making butter.
Steps of making butter:
1. First you need to collect at least 100 – 250 grams (3 ounce to 8 ounce)
How to make milk cream?
Boil milk. Allow it to self cool. Collect the upper cream part. Keep it in refrigerator. Do it everyday, till the time you have sufficient amount of milk cream to make butter.
2. After having sufficient milk cream collected in refrigerator, take it out from refrigerator and add a little amount of curd or buttermilk at night time. Leave it over night in the room temperature.
3. Next day morning, churn it. You can adopt different techniques for churning.
4. Churning in a bottle. - Take thus prepared milk cream in a bottle. Fill it up to 75 % space in the bottle. (3/4th volume of the bottle.) Close the lid tightly. Keep on shaking till you can see the butter collecting as the top layer of milk cream. Once the top layer of butter is completely formed, collect it and keep it in air tight container.
5. Mixer method – You can churn the milk cream by a mixer.
6. Churning with the help of a churning machine.
Make sure to stop churning once you can clearly see the collected top layer of butter. If you over churn butter may get dissolved, leading to less yield.
Butter uses:
- Butter is one of the important ingredient in many Ayurvedic preparations.
- Butter is used to make ghee.
- Butter can be used to apply over skin, to cool off from heat and burning sensation. It also makes an excellent natural skin moisturizer.
Ghee or butter ….is better for health?
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