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Homemade butter is one of the easiest keto essentials to make. Butter is a great part of the Keto Diet because it’s low carb and rich in healthy fats.
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When I was growing up, I never knew where butter came from. We had butter occasionally in the house but back then butter was very expensive and if bought it was a special buy and usually reserved for my dad. Of course dad would share with us but you can’t just walk up the the refrigerator and touch dad’s ‘Anchor’ butter. I think that was the name of brand ?.
Things are a lot different now. Butter is easily accessible now albeit pricey so you can have butter whenever and however. Now that I know where butter comes from I can make mine whenever I want to and I will be sharing how to make butter with you today.
Where does butter come from?
Butter comes from heavy cream which is the thick fatty part of milk which floats to the top of fresh milk. It is taken off from the top of milk and used to as heavy cream.
How to make Butter at home.
You won’t believe how incredibly easy it is to make your own butter all you need to do is whip your heavy cream till the cream separates into butter and butter milk. This process takes a total of 10 mins. Now how cool is that?
You can make butter using the following methods.
- In a jar ( grab some elbow grease )
- With a hand mixer or stand mixer ( this is the method I used in this post)
- In a food processor or blender
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Ingredients:
- Heavy Cream
- Salt
Tools:
- Either a Hand mixer or a Stand mixer
- Jar
- Snack container I used a snack container very similar to this to get the cuboid shape. I got mine from Aldi’s.
Now you have it. If you need butter and you happen to have run out of some and you have heavy cream then you can make butter. Hope you give it a try.. And if you do, please drop me a comment below, I would love to hear all about it.
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Easy Homemade Butter
Ingredients
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- 1/8 tsp Salt if making salted butter
Instructions
- Pour heavy cream into a clean bowl
Hand or stand mixer method:
- Using your hand mixer. Whisk the heavy cream till the cream separates clearly into liquid ( buttermilk) and fat ( butter).
- With clean hands, gather up the fat and squeeze out as much liquid as you can. Then sieve the liquid which is called butter milk and collect the fat residue. Add it to the already collected fat that's your butter
- Run the butter under water while squeezing gently to remove the rest of the buttermilk. The process is very important in other for the Butter not to go bad quickly.
- Transfer butter into a contain and mix in he Salt if making salted butter.
- Use immediately or Press into desired contain (I used a small rectangular snack plate).
- Refrigerate. It can be stored for you to 3 weeks in the refrigerator
In a jar:
- Pour heavy cream into a clean jar. The jar should be half filled to allow for shaking.
- Shake the jar with the cream vigorously, up and down. it may take up to 12 minutes before the cream separates into buttermilk and butter.
- Continue with steps2, 3, 4 above
In a food processor or blender
- Same steps as the hand mixer.
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