Store Biography

Why Ghee?

Ghee is a clarified butter that has been used in the Indian sub-continent for millennia not just as for food, but in the wider cultural, religious and medicinal realms. It’s one of Ayurveda’s corner stones. What started out as a need to deal with cream going off has lead to one of the world’s most amazing superfoods. Typically Ghee was made in the home or in religious settings in small batches. It was the most common cooking fat available. Nut and seed oils were not common or readily available.

What makes Happy Butter Organic Ghee Special?

We make our organic ghee in the traditional way, and while it’s now handmade in a small workshop kitchen, nothing else has really changed. It’s as close to what you would find in a home kitchen in rural India. We cook over flame, heating our organic butter slowly for 5-6 hours over direct heat. The air smells like butterscotch as we cook, because once the milk solids drop out of the butter we allow it to caramelise, which give the ghee a deeper flavour and a glorious, golden colour. We use real organic turmeric root in our turmeric ghee. Cooling is not rushed either – it occurs slowly at room temperature over 1-2 hours, producing an authentic slightly grainy texture.