Churn butter at home using food processor / mixer

Butter has a very special place in Indian Hindu tradition. Who can forget the lovely little lord krishna's leelas in stealing butter. Milking cows and churning butter from them is a lovely thing to do. But coming to the modern era that is one thing we all have time for. Is it not? What if we still want to churn out home made butter ? That is where our food processor and griding jars comes for rescue. With grinders or with food processor whipping blade, we can churn out butter in less than five minutes. Trust me, it is very possible.

   Unless a person never bothered to make home made butter, I am sure everyone would know this tradition with a twist of modernity. And there are zillion bloggers out there who has posted on it. Now I am just adding to that pile with the purpose of having my own bookmarked version. So here goes.

Ingredients:

           Amul Fresh Cream  - 1 liter ( there are other brands as well).
           Food processor with whipping blade
           A deep bottomed container with filled with water to half its depth 

Way to go

Butter from Fresh Cream ( some people suggest using heavy cream but I used fresh cream):

• Pour in the Amul fresh cream fully into the food processor which is set with whipping blade and close it with lid.

 

• Turn it on to run at first level speed and run it for two to three minutes.
• Turn off and check and mostly you will have butter having separated from the cream, leaving aside butter milk. 

 

• After removing the butter, you can run the processor again on the butter milk for another three minutes just to check if any more butter could be extracted. You can repeat it two to three times. But mostly two times is sufficient. 
• With your hand take out the butter, roll it into a ball and drop it in the vessel with water ( to wash it). Let it float in water for some five to ten minutes. And then take it out and store it in  sealed container. 

          

Butter from Curd:

•  Make curd from any heave fat cream milk. I used Half a litre milk in this case.
• Repeat the above process using this curd in place of fresh cream to make butter and butter milk.

 

• But I personally found the yield lesser with this option.   

You may not get great quantity in any of these process. But the only fun is home made butter which you use as is or melt it to a tasty sweet smelling ghee.