Rajasthan
Made with Gobind Ghee
Ghevar
Rajasthan's honeycomb disc, fried in ghee and soaked in syrup. The hardest thing on this site, and the...
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Rajasthan
Made with Gobind Ghee
Rajasthan's honeycomb disc, fried in ghee and soaked in syrup. The hardest thing on this site, and the...
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Jammu
Made with Gobind Ghee
Jammu's street-food cheese, pan-fried in its own fat until it stretches. Twenty minutes, four ingredie...
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Himachal Pradesh
Made with Gobind Ghee
Chickpeas in a spiced yoghurt gravy from Chamba and Kangra. No onion, no garlic, no tomato — and the c...
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Himachal Pradesh
Made with Gobind Ghee
Himachal's steamed stuffed bread — a yeasted dough, a walnut and poppy seed filling, and a bowl of mel...
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Punjab
Made with Gobind Ghee
Roasted atta, dry ginger, gond and ghee. Traditionally made for new mothers and eaten by everyone else...
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Haryana
Made with Gobind Ghee
Pearl millet and moong dal cooked to a soft, comforting mash. Village winter food, and a spoon of ghee...
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Rajasthan
Made with Gobind Ghee
Rajasthan's full plate: baked wheat batis dunked in ghee, a five-lentil dal, and sweet churma crushed ...
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Punjab
Made with Gobind Ghee
Mustard greens simmered slowly, cornmeal rotis off the tawa, and a knob of ghee melting into the middl...
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Punjab
Made with Gobind Ghee
Atta, ghee, gur, gond and almonds, rolled while still warm. The Punjabi winter ladoo that no substitut...
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Punjab
Made with Gobind Ghee
Red winter carrots, slow-cooked in ghee with milk and khoya until the whole thing turns dark and gloss...
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Punjab
Made with Gobind Ghee
Four ingredients and nowhere to hide. The gurdwara sweet that is really a test of your ghee — and the ...
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In every dish on this page the ghee is doing real work — carrying flavour, taking heat that butter cannot, and binding sweets that fall apart without it.
A smoke point around 250 °C means ghee holds up to frying and tempering where butter would burn and split.
Fat is what spice dissolves into. Bloom whole spices in ghee and the whole dish tastes different.
Pinni, panjiri, halwa and churma do not hold together without it. There is no substitute that works.
A spoon over hot dal, khichdi or roti is the way most families actually use it — and the best test of a good ghee.
Every recipe on this page in one printable PDF — from everyday breakfasts to the winter sweets our grandmothers made.
New recipes, cooking inspiration, traditional favourites and the occasional Gobind Ghee offer — sent when we have something worth sending.
Traditional cooking does not need to be complicated. It needs time, attention, and ghee worth cooking with.
Recipe photographs are used under open licences from Wikimedia Commons. Several require the photographer to be credited, so please keep this list in place while these photos are on the site.
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