How to Make Clarified Butter

Name: How to Make Clarified Butter
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 cups
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter

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Cook Time
mins
Total Time
10 mins
Servings
1 cups
Calories
3255 kcal
Course
Condiments
Cuisine
French, American

How to Make Clarified Butter

Opal Carpenter

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Step-by-step instructions on How to Make Clarified Butter in only 10 minutes or less! The perfect base for sauces, gravy and more.

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Ingredients

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1 cup unsalted butter

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Instructions

Place the butter in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat. Do not stir.
Allow the butter to melt, moving to low heat if it starts to brown or smell nutty. Soon a white foam will develop on the top (whey proteins). Tilt the saucepan to the side and carefully spoon the white foam off the top and discard. You might have to repeat this process several times until you get it all removed.
Gently pour just the yellow, golden liquid from the pan into a container, leaving behind any of the murky white layer at the bottom (milk solids). You can also transfer everything to a heat safe fat separator and pour out the milk solid layer from the bottom.
For most, this is good, but if you want to get really serious, run your clarified butter through a cheesecloth to get rid of any undesirable things. Discard any browned bits at the bottom of the pan.
Use in a recipe or store for later.
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Calories 3255kcal (163%) Protein 3g (6%) Fat 368g (566%) Saturated Fat 233g (1165%) Cholesterol 976mg (325%) Sodium 49mg (2%) Potassium 108mg (3%) Vitamin A 11345IU (227%) Calcium 109mg (11%)