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Ghee

/ɡiː/

A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.

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noun

1
A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.
2
Vegetable oil for cooking.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ghee"

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vanaspatinoun	(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourth melakarta rāgam of the 72 melakarta rāgams of Carnatic music.
desinoun	A member of the South Asian diaspora.
limnoun	A surname from Korean.
usli gheenoun	Synonym of ghee (“clarified butter used in South Asian cooking”).
gingilinoun	Alternative form of gingilli. [sesame oil]
pureenoun	A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.
butter oilnoun	clarified butter
clarified butternoun	A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
kulfinoun	A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.
gulkhandnoun	Alternative form of gulkand. [A sweet Indian preserve made with rose petals and sugar.]
lehsuninoun	(India, cooking) Alternative form of lasoon. [(India, cooking) garlic]
cow greasenoun	(slang) Butter.
gujianoun	Alternative form of gujiya. [A sweet dumpling of Indian origin, made with suji or maida flour and stuffed with khoa.]
kulchanoun	A type of leavened bread from northern India, made with wheat flour and usually eaten with chole.
khoanoun	A South Asian dairy product made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating.
suinenoun	(zoology) (strictly) An even-toed ungulate belonging to the taxonomic subfamily Suinae, which is comprised of modern pigs (genus Sus) and their close relatives, both living and extinct.
sujeenoun	Alternative spelling of suji. [(South Asia) Wheat that is granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.]
geleenoun	Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
galoutinoun	(India, cooking) A kind of finely-textured Indian kebab.
idlinoun	A South Asian cake made from rice and lentils, whose ground mixture is fermented and steamed in a mold.