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Why Everyone Should Get To Know Ghee
by Julia Clarke
mindbodygreen
I love fat, and every two weeks or so I devote a little time to making my favorite type of it. For 15 minutes, I'm engrossed in the essential ritual of standing lovingly over a pot of delicious, bubbling butter, savoring the popcorn aromas and listening acutely for that vital moment when the ghee tells me it’s ready. I grab it off the stove and strain it immediately through cheesecloth into a glass jar, let it cool, then store it for daily use in cooking over the days to come. Contrary to what you may think, I'm at a healthy weight, and I don't have high cholesterol.
Ghee is purified butter and is used commonly in India. While in the West we’ve had a complicated relationship with fat and butter over the past 30 years — resulting in that odd stepchild, margarine, that no one likes to mention — its benefits have been extolled by Ayurveda since time immemorial. The Charaka Samhita, a centuries-old Ayurvedic text, says, “Out of all the oils fit for human consumption, ghee is the best to eat,” and this healthy fat is used as both food and medicine to nourish the body’s tissues, cleanse toxins, improve eye health, lower cholesterol, boost the immune system and promote general vitality.
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/11/why-everyone-should-get-to-know-ghee.html
