When Should You Swap Out Regular Butter For Organic Ghee?

In many cases, butter and organic ghee can be used as substitutes for each other, but given that they can often taste very different, some dishes traditionally made using butter can be radically improved by replacing it.

There are times when you absolutely must use ghee, such as when making traditional curries such as the ironically-named butter chicken, as the smoke point of ghee is significantly higher than butter.

Similarly, ghee can be used for proper pan frying and searing steaks at a high heat, something that butter cannot do without burning.

However, there are some amazing meals which are made better when using ghee, and here are some of our favourites.

Scrambled Eggs With Ghee 

Everyone has their own method for cooking fantastic scrambled eggs, but an article produced by AOL suggests that ghee can bring out the best of the breakfast favourite.

By adding a more nutty, savoury flavour than butter, as well as being able to manage the variable heat needed for perfect scrambled eggs better,

The only difference is that, unlike butter, you need to add it to a hot pan rather than letting it heat and melt as a cold pan warms up.

You can also fry eggs in ghee, and get a perfectly crisp edge.

Grill Chicken With Ghee

Searing chicken, salmon or scallops seals in the flavour and creates a beautiful golden texture that adds a new dimension to your dishes.

With chicken, in particular, grilling with butter is less than ideal because the low smoke point typically leads to burnt butter.

Bombay Potatoes With Ghee

Sauteeing vegetables in ghee gives them a perfect nutty flavour and utterly delectable flavour profile, but cooking potatoes in ghee, whether you are roasting them, shallow frying them or deep frying them, gives them an utterly immaculate crispy coating.

Using ghee to make Bombay potatoes creates a spicy, aromatic boost to an already brilliant recipe.