Homemade Ghee from Butter & Cotton Wicks for Ghee Lamp

Preparation time - 40 minutes

Ingredients
For Ghee
Butter - 450g X 3
Rock Salt - 2
Curry leaves - 6

For Cotton Wicks
Cotton - 4 balls
Water as required

Method - Ghee

• Heat a heavy bottom pan on a medium flame and add all the butter blocks.
• Allow the butter to melt and stir occasionally.
• Initially the butter is covered with large bubbles and has sizzling sound.
• Approximately after 15-20 minutes, the buttery colour changes into transparent, now reduce the heat to low.
• When all the sizzling sound disappears, it will be covered with foamy bubbles.
• This is the time to switch off the stove and add rock salt and curry leaves to the hot ghee.
• Once the foam settles down, the ghee now look like honey with golden brown colour.
• When the ghee is still warm, filter and store in a clean and dry container, as it becomes thick when cools down completely

Method - Cotton Wicks

• Take a piece of cotton, fold it very tightly to make a base for cotton wicks and it should be hard as stone.
• then take a thin sheet of cotton, place the hard cotton ball into it, close and remove the excess cotton, wet the index & thumb finger with a drop of water, squeeze, tap at bottom to stand by itself.
• Place all the cotton wicks to a bowl, add some melted ghee and soak it until it is used.