Homemade Butter

       Making butter at home is very simple and so easy which does not take much of the time.You can just make it by putting fresh cream/malai in a mixer and churning it till it turns into butter.It is generally used as a spread on plain bread products.This homemade butter can be used in baking cakes,cookies and in cooking.Butter is taken from milk of cow,buffalo,sheep etc..I used the fresh cream or malai from buffalo's milk which gives butter in white colour...Cows milk give yellow colour Butter..

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of Malai / Aadai (Cream from the milk or Curd)
• 1 cup of water

Method:

• Collect fresh cream or malai from milk or curd everyday and store it in a container and keep it in  Fridge. 
• If collecting from milk then add 1 tbsp of curd and store it.
• After collecting around 2 cups of cream or for 15 days you can use it for making butter. 

     

• In a mixer jar add the cream.Turn on the mixer.
• Initially, the cream will begun to smoothen,continue the mixer by adding 1 cup of water.

          

• Continue until buttermilk and the butter gets separated.
• The butter will be floating in the buttermilk.

          

• Store the buttermilk separately.

    

• Collect the butter and  put it in big vessel with water and rinse the butter under cold water until water is clear. This will remove the last of the buttermilk and will prevent your butter from spoiling quickly.
• Allow the butter to float in water for 5mins.

    

• Drain water completely or squeeze it with clean hand to remove excess water.
• If you like, you can add a pinch of salt,to make it salted butter.
• Collect it in a clean container and refrigerate it.

    

• Homemade butter is ready for use..
• The reserved buttermilk can be served with salt and hing/jeera powder.

   

• Homemade butter won’t keep for long because there are no preservatives added. It will spoil quickly if left at room temperature, but will keep well for a few days in the fridge.