Market Friday - Ethnic Supermarket and What is GHEE?

Yay, it is #marketfriday! I love this challenge hosted by the lovely @dswigle. I encourage everybody to join the community and share your shopping experiences. It is fun and interesting. 😊

Today I will take you to another ethnic supermarket that I visited in New York. It is a spice shop! Hundreds and thousands of bags and jars and stuff!!! Too much to describe in one post for sure.

I just want to emphasize some products I usually buy in these places, like pickles, especially chili:

Or dried fruit....

Or juices, or roti...

All of the above have a place in my shopping cart and in my pantry in Jersey. But today I would like to talk about GHEE...

What Is Ghee?

Ghee is clarified butter. As a matter of fact, it is a clarified cooking fat.

In the past it was used to fuel lamps. I remember my grandma used it as ointment for skin wounds.

Today ghee is used in cooking, and this is good, because it has a great flavor and it is loaded with health benefits.

The lactose is dramatically reduced in the process of boiling the butter, and so other bad components. I am lactose intolerant, but honestly, I don’t use ghee in cooking because I don’t like fat in general. Like all other fats, ghee is my enemy. 😛 Of course, in excess.

However, for a heathy person and a healthy diet, ghee is a great pick. It has a higher burning point than other cooking fats, it is easy to digest and it is said that it reduces inflammation. It is rich in vitamin A, it helps with insulin resistance, so it is good for diabetics. Some people swear that it fights cancer.

As far as I know, it is a good moisturizer for skin and even for scalp. I know this from my granny.

Ghee became very popular in the past years because of the trending Paleo diet, which is high in fat. I’ve seen many recipes for ghee with various flavors like garlic or ginger, and I always wondered who’s eating that? Until I went to a fancy restaurant and I saw “ghee” on the menu: poached salmon with ghee, lobster with ghee sauce, coffee with ghee....☕️

My conclusion is that ghee can be used in everything, so I won’t be surprised to see ghee tacos 🌮 , ghee burritos 🌯 , ghee steaks 🥩 ...

... so... that’s it for today’s #marketfriday. I hope you enjoyed my post and you learned a thing or two. Looking forward to read all the posts under this tag, you guys are awesome. See you next week.

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