Butter refers to dairy products and is made from cow’s milk, or rather from cream. Butter is whipped in special apparatuses, where milk is poured. However, butter can be prepared at home.
How to Make Butter Using a Mixer?
Chilled cream of 33% fat content (or more) is whipped in a mixer at maximum power for 10 minutes. 400 ml of cream should make about 150 g of butter.
The liquid separated during this time is drained, and the oily mass is whipped in the same mode for up to 5 minutes.
The liquid separation and whipping cycle is repeated again for 2-3 minutes until the mass is compacted.
The resulting oil is collected with a spoon into a “bun” and slightly crushed. Such a bun should “rest” a little to release some more excess fluid.
Then the butter lump is rolled out on parchment and salted to taste. You can add finely chopped herbs or spices to it. To mix well, it is folded in half several times and rolled out again. In addition to mixing, it is possible to get rid of moisture residues in this way.
How to Make Butter Without Devices?
The butter recipe is very simple:
We take a three-liter jar, pour cream into it (at least 30% fat content) by about 1/3 (a larger amount will be more difficult to beat).
Next, you need to close the jar very tightly and start shaking it with your hands so that the cream inside is actively moving, splashing and bubbling (Turn the jar horizontally and shake with two hands from left to right).
The process takes about 1 hour, it all depends on your physical fitness.
The work is quite masculine, painstaking, time-consuming, but the butter eventually turns out to be very tender and delicious. It is very difficult to find such butter in the store.
Types of Butter
Sour butter
Sweet butter
Amateur butter
Butter with different fillers: cocoa, honey, vanilla (this includes chocolate butter)
What is Contained in Butter?
In addition to a large amount of fat, butter contains vitamins A, D. Butter contains proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and water. It contains carotene and tocopherols.
Butter is the main product for the preparation of ghee. Ghee is simply melted butter. Ghee has an advantage over ordinary butter – it is stored longer.
Where is Butter Used?
Butter is a mandatory component of French cuisine. Real French chefs do not recognize any other butter except butter. In France, butter is part of many desserts, meat and fish dishes, sauces, gravies, pastries. Traditional cake cream is also made from butter and sugar.
If you still have yesterday’s pasta and you do not know what sauce they are being fed to the family today, then perhaps this recipe will be useful to you. And open to all pepper lovers.
Baked sweet pepper stuffed with hot potatoes and chicken curry. Do you want you to try it, it turned out delicious and juicy, and most importantly fun! There are similar recipes with mushrooms on the site, but I didn’t find them with chicken! 2 dish 1 and garnish, and the second!
This dish is prepared with the delayed cooking function. In the evening I cook broth, in the morning the peas themselves are cooked, and for dinner I cook mashed potatoes. Everyone knows the beneficial properties of peas. Pea puree is not only healthy, but also very tasty. It can be served as a side dish, or cooked in meat broth as an independent dish. Peas cooked in a slow cooker turn out to be much tastier than in a regular saucepan.
A dish for lunch or dinner. I like that the meat is baked in the oven in about the same way as on the grill (do not add any oil or fat). I think it’s better than frying in a frying pan with fat.
Quite simple to prepare and at the same time having a wide color and taste palette – this dish can be classified as dishes for “special occasions” and festive events. The combination of pea puree, cream and mint was a pleasant discovery for me!
At the height of the summer season, I really wanted to reveal the secret of cooking Joel Robuchon with mashed potatoes! I don’t pretend to be a maestro, but something like this happened! Friends, I confess to you honestly, I liked this dish so much! Dense, airy and inconspicuous! Creamy-delicious, so unique!
