ghee

plural ghees · alternative ghi

1. uncountableusuallyA type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.

   A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 104

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   Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow.

   1845, T.A. Wise, Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine, page 140

   Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.

   2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: usli ghee

2. South AsiauncountableusuallyVegetable oil for cooking.

   There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.

   1973, Madhur Jaffrey, An Invitation to Indian Cooking

plural Ghees

1. A surname.