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3 Tips and Tricks To Making Your Own Clarified Butter

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi July 19, 2017
Making Your Own Clarified Butter

Were you aware of the fact that butter comprises of 80% fat, 15% water and 5% milk proteins? Clarified butter is ideal for people following a strict Paleo diet as it does not contain sugar, water, and milk proteins. Since clarified butter is a highly saturated fat and doesn’t burn easily, it can be used for various cooking purposes including roasting, stir-frying and sautéing. Of course, you can easily purchase clarified butter at the local supermarket, but if you are experimenting on how to make your own clarified butter, you have come to the right place! Here are 3 tips and tricks to making your own clarified butter!

 

  1. Using Cornstarch

 

You can use cornstarch to make clarified butter. How so? Well, let us elucidate. First, you need to mix every ½ cup of butter with ½ tablespoon of cornstarch in a saucepan. After doing that, you need to heat it up over medium heat. As you do that, you will start seeing the butter melt, and as you see that, there is a requirement for you to stir the cornstarch. After the butter melts, you will see foams everywhere. After cooking for an additional 30 seconds, you then need to remove the saucepan from the pan. You will now see that the milk fat, unwanted water, and proteins are all separated. You can then use a coffee filter to remove all the water-soluble proteins from the clarified butter. And, there you go; you have made your own clarified butter!

  1. Simply melting the butter slowly

Making Your Own Clarified Butter

You can also make your own clarified butter by simply melting the butter at a low temperature in a Dutch oven or in a pot. You shouldn’t stir the pot during the melting process. After the butter is melted, you need to get rid of the froth and you can do so with a slotted spoon. After that, you should pour the melted butter over a paper towel and into the jar. The next process includes a waiting period of a few minutes to facilitate the separation of water and fat. Now, you can finally place the butter in a glass jar for consumption. While doing so, you need to be careful to not spoon off butter with water into the glass jar.

  1. Make clarified butter using a microwave

 

Before putting the butter into the microwave, you need to first cut the butter into tablespoon-sized pieces. After putting the pieces in a microwavable glass, you should put it into the microwave for a minute on high power output. Then, you need to put it in a standby mode until you see the formation of foam on the glass. After that, you should remove the glass from the microwave and wait for a couple of minutes to let the foam settle. Now, you can use a spoon to get rid of the foamy milk fat on the top layer. Now, proceed to pour the clarified butter into a new glass. While doing so, you need to be careful to not include watery milk proteins into the glass jar.

 

For more information on clarified butter, you can visit the site, paleoleap.com.

 

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants. (www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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16 comments

Christie Brown July 19, 2017 - 5:40 am

I had no idea that “regular” butter could be turned in to clarified butter. Where was this article a few months ago when my partner was following a Paleo diet (he’s since given that up)? Hahaha.

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Amila Wickramarachchi July 19, 2017 - 8:05 am

yes,it is easy to make clarified butter at home….Wish he found such info before giving up Paleo diet! 🙂

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jhilmil July 19, 2017 - 8:23 am

This was informative, I never thought to have clarified butter, rather never knew if we could get one. Will share that with my mom who is looking for similar things!

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Amila Wickramarachchi July 19, 2017 - 9:25 am

It is easy to make clarified butter at home.Hope this is helpful! 🙂

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Marianne July 19, 2017 - 9:13 am

Since I hardly use butter, I shall be sharing this post to my friends who love it. Thanks for sharing.

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Courtney July 19, 2017 - 11:35 am

Thanks for the tips, I had no idea you could make clarified butter this way!

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Amy July 19, 2017 - 3:40 pm

Awesome post. Sometimes it’s helpful to know where foods come from. Knowing I can make clarified butter at home will help my kitchen game for sure!

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Amber Myers July 19, 2017 - 4:16 pm

Nice! I haven’t ever made my own butter before. I should try it sometime.

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Khushboo July 20, 2017 - 2:44 am

That is a great idea! My mom prefers letting butter melt slowly method because she feels microwaving butter ruins it taste. Personally, I think all the 3 methods work out great 🙂

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Blair villanueva July 20, 2017 - 3:43 am

Oh so the secret is the cornstarch. I always wonder how they do it.
Thnaks for your generosity.

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chandresh July 20, 2017 - 7:37 am

So its time to switch from ordinary butter to clarified one

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jana July 20, 2017 - 8:55 am

Such a great ides! thank you so much for sharing your tips. I will share this with my friends.

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Courtney July 20, 2017 - 10:15 pm

Omg who knew?!?! I never knew that you could even separate butter this way. I guess you really do learn something new everyday

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Keoshia July 21, 2017 - 1:22 pm

I don’t use butter a lot, not sure different in clarified and regular butter. Thanks for sharing, tho.

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Nikhila July 21, 2017 - 2:34 pm

Don’t know any of this stuff but enjoyed reading. Good one.

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Meera August 19, 2017 - 6:29 am

Melting butter is the best way I choose. Nice article, as most of us are not aware that making clarified butter at home is simple and easy.

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