Butter Rice with Desi Cow Butter
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Simple Recipe • Desi Cow Butter
Butter Rice
The simplest, most comforting Tamil Nadu meal — hot rice with a generous knob of cold fresh desi cow butter melting slowly through it. The food of childhood and convalescence.
5Min Total
1Serving
EasyDifficulty
“When a child was sick, the first food was butter rice. When a woman gave birth, butter rice. When someone had no appetite, butter rice. It is not a recipe — it is a remedy. And it only works with real white butter.”
Ingredients
| Hot steamed rice | 1 cup |
| Sree Kumaran Desi Cow Butter | 1 generous tbsp |
| Salt | to taste |
| Papad or pickle (to serve) | as desired |
Method
- Take freshly cooked, piping hot rice directly from the pot. Place in a wide bowl.
- Place a generous tablespoon of cold desi cow butter in the centre of the hot rice. Watch it begin to melt immediately, forming pools of white-gold liquid.
- Add salt. Mix gently — the butter should coat every grain of rice but the rice should not be mashed. The texture should remain separate and glistening.
- Eat immediately with papad, pickle, or simply on its own. The butter must still be slightly cold when it meets the rice — the contrast between hot rice and cold butter is the entire experience.
Chef’s Note
This dish exists to showcase butter. It will not work with commercial salted butter — only fresh white desi cow butter has the clean, sweet dairy flavour that makes this so extraordinary in its simplicity. Use more butter than you think is reasonable. That is the correct amount.
Made with Sree Kumaran Desi Cow Butter
Fresh churned • Pure desi cow • No salt added • Since 1945
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