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Clarified butter

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, clarified butter means: Butterfat separated from most of the water and milk solids in butter.

In Turkish: sadeleştirilmiş tereyağı, sade yağ

How it is used

Used when a recipe calls for the fat portion of butter; it need not be browned.

Example sentences

  1. The recipe uses clarified butter for the sauce.

    The ingredient supplies butterfat with most milk solids removed.

  2. The chef compared clarified butter with browned butter.

    Separation and browning are different preparations.

Common collocations

  • clarified butterfat
  • cook with clarified butter
  • emulsionA smooth mixture of two liquids that do not normally mix, such as oil and water or vinegar, held together by whisking and often by egg yolk or mustard.
  • ingredientOne of the foods or other items, such as flour, oil or salt, that are combined to make a particular dish.

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