Ghee from yogurt cream
I'm writing from Sunny California while on the Women's Health course with Vaidya Mishra. I thought I would talk about ghee today and the proper way of making it so that it does not elevate cholesterol. Ghee has incredible nourishing qualities for the brain. Vaidya said that if people ate this cultured Ghee from Yogurt it would prevent Alzheimers. That was enough to encourage me to take the time to make the yogurt ghee.
We start with organic whipping cream from which we make yogurt, just like making any other yogurt. Once the yogurt is ready you then whip it. I use my Cuisinart. When whipping the yogurt-cream, the friction increases the temperature and I find that dropping an icecube into the whirling yogurt-cream keeps it cool and helps the yogurt cream to turn into butter more quickly.
Once the butter separates from the buttermilk, we squeeze the buttermilk out through a cheesecloth and seive. We keep this wonderful buttermilk, called tarka in Sanskrit, which has wonderful probiotic properties. It is very delicious and very beneficial. Drink it with your noon meal.
We then cook the butter so that the milk solids fall out and the clear gold colored ghee separates. You must do this very carefully and slowly on medium or low heat, so that the milk solids do not burn and spoil the ghee and all your hard work until this point. The cooking butter will foam up a bit and then the solids will start to fall to the bottom. Then you have to be careful as they start turning brown - this is when they can burn. Once the solid are separated you strain them out through a fine metal sieve. It has to be metal as the ghee is very hot and will melt plastic seives. I speak from experience. This ghee can be stored in a tightly sealed jar at room temperature as long as we do not add any moisture to it. Do not stick a wet spoon into the ghee.
We also have to know that when eating ghee we do not use it like butter, do not spread on toast. It must be cooked with traditional spices like turmeric, cumin and coriander so that is does not increase fat in the body.
We can also get the benefits of ghee by burning it in a ghee lamp. The light of the ghee has a very powerful effect to awaken the light of the heart lotus and its connects the heart, soul and mind. Burning ghee and generating its light is very spiritually powerful.
So besides nourishing the mind/body and especially the brain, Ghee also is spiritually nourishing.
We start with organic whipping cream from which we make yogurt, just like making any other yogurt. Once the yogurt is ready you then whip it. I use my Cuisinart. When whipping the yogurt-cream, the friction increases the temperature and I find that dropping an icecube into the whirling yogurt-cream keeps it cool and helps the yogurt cream to turn into butter more quickly.
Once the butter separates from the buttermilk, we squeeze the buttermilk out through a cheesecloth and seive. We keep this wonderful buttermilk, called tarka in Sanskrit, which has wonderful probiotic properties. It is very delicious and very beneficial. Drink it with your noon meal.
We then cook the butter so that the milk solids fall out and the clear gold colored ghee separates. You must do this very carefully and slowly on medium or low heat, so that the milk solids do not burn and spoil the ghee and all your hard work until this point. The cooking butter will foam up a bit and then the solids will start to fall to the bottom. Then you have to be careful as they start turning brown - this is when they can burn. Once the solid are separated you strain them out through a fine metal sieve. It has to be metal as the ghee is very hot and will melt plastic seives. I speak from experience. This ghee can be stored in a tightly sealed jar at room temperature as long as we do not add any moisture to it. Do not stick a wet spoon into the ghee.
We also have to know that when eating ghee we do not use it like butter, do not spread on toast. It must be cooked with traditional spices like turmeric, cumin and coriander so that is does not increase fat in the body.
We can also get the benefits of ghee by burning it in a ghee lamp. The light of the ghee has a very powerful effect to awaken the light of the heart lotus and its connects the heart, soul and mind. Burning ghee and generating its light is very spiritually powerful.
So besides nourishing the mind/body and especially the brain, Ghee also is spiritually nourishing.
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