ghee — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   usli ghee

   Examples

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   Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow.

   A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.

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   Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.

2. Vegetable oil for cooking.

   Usage

   • South-Asia
   • Uncountable
   • usually

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   There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.

Noun

1. clarified butter used in Indian cookery

   Broader terms

   clarified butterdrawn butter