Clarified Butter

Difficulty:

1/5

This recipe is from Episode 5 of This Food That Wine

Wine Suggestion: Cabernet Sauvingnon

Yield: ½ cup clarified butter (125ml)

Ingredients

1 pound unsalted butter

Directions

Add the butter to a saucepan and place over very low heat.
Allow to cook for 10-15 minutes or until a white froth has accumulated at the top.
Use a ladle to skim the froth off the top, removing as much of the milk solids as possible.
Increase the heat to medium and continue to skim off the froth, this should take about 20 minutes.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and let stand for 10 minutes.
Pour the liquid into a container making sure to remove the solids that have collected at the bottom of the sauce pot.

Clarified butter is simply unsalted butter that has been melted and had the water and milk solids removed from it. When it is used for cooking it can withstand higher cooking temperatures without burning (compared to whole butter).

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