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Clarified butter

Clarified butter is a cooking fat made from butter. Cooks use it for sautéing.

  • Vegetarian
  • Dairy
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fats & oils
Made from
Butter
Cooked most in
Asia
Clarified butter, packaged

Photo: Rainer Z · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use clarified butter

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Saute

Cooking with it

Clarified butter tolerates higher heat before smoking than regular butter.

On the table

Dishes made with clarified butter

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Zhent

    Central Asia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include clarified butter.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: clarified butter in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milkChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: dairyChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
butter (clarified)
Kinds
ghee

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What clarified butter is called

Names in 41 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    mantequilla clarificada

  • French

    Beurre clarifié

  • Italian

    burro chiarificato

  • Portuguese

    Manteiga clarificada

  • German

    Butterschmalz · Schmalzbutter · geläuterte Butter · geklärte Butter

  • Dutch

    Boterolie

  • Greek

    διαυγασμένο βούτυρο

  • Turkish

    sade yağ · sadeyağ · klarifiye tereyağı · klarife tereyağı

  • Russian

    топлёное масло

  • Polish

    Masło klarowane

  • Arabic

    زيت الزبدة

  • Persian

    روغن حیوانی

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  • Albanian

    Gjalpi i kthjelluar

  • Armenian

    Հալած յուղ

  • Basque

    Gurin iragazi

  • Belarusian

    таплёнае масла

  • Buriat

    Шара тоһон

  • Catalan

    Mantega clarificada

  • Chinese

    液体黄油

  • Czech

    přepuštěné máslo

  • Esperanto

    klarigita butero

  • Finnish

    voiöljy

  • Georgian

    ერბო

  • Hebrew

    חמאה מזוקקת

  • Irish

    im gléghlanta

  • Japanese

    澄ましバター

  • Javanese

    Mertéga klarifikasi

  • Kazakh

    сары май

  • Korean

    버터기름

  • Kyrgyz

    Сары май

  • Lithuanian

    Lydytas sviestas

  • Macedonian

    прочистен путер

  • Malay

    Cecair mentega

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    klarnet smør

  • Ossetic

    Царв

  • Swedish

    skirat smör · klarifierat smör · klarnat smör · klarat smör

  • Tajik

    равғани зард · равғани ҳайвонӣ

  • Thai

    เนยใส

  • Ukrainian

    Пряжене масло

  • Vietnamese

    Bơ tinh luyện

  • Welsh

    ymenyn clir

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q2789594

Photos

Photo: Rainer Z · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons