Ghee
घी
GHEE
Clarified butter — Indian cooking fat with a high smoke point and nutty flavour.
Meaning & usage
Ghee is butter cooked gently until the milk solids brown and are strained off, leaving a clear golden fat that keeps for months without refrigeration. It's the fat of much Indian cooking and ritual — a dollop on hot dal, a fingertip on a temple lamp, a tablespoon stirred into halwa. Buffalo-milk ghee is the rich version; cow ghee is lighter and more aromatic.
In a sentence
A spoonful of ghee melted into the hot dal at the table.
Common spelling variants
- Ghi
- Clarified butter
Ghee is the canonical English spelling used in MG Mini puzzles.