What to cook with ghee

199 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use ghee. 49 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indian, Egyptian and North Indian recipes.

recipes use it
199
are built around it
49
median total time
1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less
33

Recipes built around ghee

With ghee, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with ghee

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with ghee, out of 199 recipes.

  • Cardamom36% of recipes
  • Garam masala23% of recipes
  • Turmeric33% of recipes
  • Cumin35% of recipes
  • Chili powder24% of recipes
  • Chili23% of recipes
  • Coriander25% of recipes
  • Onion37% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 126 recipes that give an amount, the median is 2 tablespoons. Half of them fall between 1 to 2 tablespoons.

Where ghee shows up

Cuisines

  • Indian82
  • Egyptian13
  • North Indian13
  • Lebanese8

Courses

  • Dinner72
  • Dessert61
  • Side23

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.