Best Buffalo Ghee in India: Top 10 Brands and Prices
The best buffalo ghee in India is made from curd, names where the milk comes from, and reaches you fresh. Our pick is Authentic Urban Jafarabadi buffalo ghee at ₹1,999 a litre, cooked after you order with a video of your jar. All 10 buffalo ghee brands we compared are below, with the price each one charged in September 2026.
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Which is the best buffalo ghee in India?
The best buffalo ghee in India is Bilona ghee made from curd, from buffalo milk whose breed or farm is named. Our #1 pick is Authentic Urban Jafarabadi buffalo ghee, cooked only after you order. Choosing between cow and buffalo? See best ghee in India.
Top 10 buffalo ghee brands in India, ranked
We ranked each jar on four things you can check yourself: is the breed or farm named, is it made from curd, how fresh is the jar when it reaches you and can you see proof, and what does a litre cost. Prices are from the brand's own shop page on 25 October 2026, or from BigBasket where the brand does not sell the pack itself, and come from our monthly Ghee Price Index. Offers change weekly, so treat these as the level, not the exact rupee.
Authentic Urban Jafarabadi Buffalo Ghee
₹1,999 for 1 L
Milk: Jafarabadi buffalo, the local breed, from Authentic Urban's own animals and vet-checked partner farms in Gir Somnath. Grass-fed village animals, no hormones.
Method: Curd, hand-churned, cooked in a matki on a wood chulha. Made after you order, with a video of your jar.
Why it ranks first: The only jar here made fresh for your order, with proof of your own jar, and one of only two that name the buffalo breed.
Two Brothers Organic Farms Buffalo Ghee
₹995 for 500 mL (₹1,990 a litre)
Milk: Buffalo, breed not named, per its page
Method: Curd churned into makkhan, slow-cooked, in glass, per its page
Verdict: A clear curd method and a glass jar. Only the 500 mL pack was listed. About ₹9 a litre less than Authentic Urban.
Nuclear Farm Buffalo Ghee
₹1,799 for 1 L
Milk: Buffalo, breed not named, per its page
Method: Curd, churned, slow-cooked, per its page
Verdict: Curd method in a 1 L pack. About ₹200 a litre less than Authentic Urban.
Anveshan Bilona-Churned Desi Buffalo Ghee
₹1,072.50 for 1 L
Milk: Surti and Jafarabadi buffalo, per its page
Method: Cultured curd, Bilona-churned, per its page
Verdict: Curd, Bilona, and the breeds all stated. About ₹926 a litre less than Authentic Urban.
Barosi A2 Buffalo Ghee
₹1,279 for 1 L
Milk: Buffalo from Pataudi, per its page
Method: Curd, Bilona, slow-cooked, per its page
Verdict: Names where the milk comes from, and the lowest price of the curd jars here. About ₹720 a litre less than Authentic Urban.
Hitkram A2 Buffalo Desi Bilona Ghee
₹1,448 for 1 L
Milk: Buffalo, breed and place not named, per its page
Method: Bilona, cultured, per its page
Verdict: A Bilona claim, but the page names neither a breed nor a place. About ₹551 a litre less than Authentic Urban.
Parsi Dairy Farm Natural Buffalo Ghee
₹1,744 for 1 L, on BigBasket
Milk: Buffalo, per its listing
Method: From cream, by a manual technique, per its listing
Verdict: Made from cream, not curd, at a price close to the curd jars.
Dinshaws Buffalo Ghee
₹705.60 for 1 L, on BigBasket
Milk: Buffalo, per its listing
Method: Full cream churned into butter and ripened for days, per its listing
Verdict: A stated method, and a cream one. Sold as a refill carton.
Godrej Jersey Buffalo Ghee
₹787.55 for 1 L, on BigBasket
Milk: Buffalo, per its listing
Method: Not stated on its listing
Verdict: Names the animal, but not how the ghee is made.
Amul Buffalo Ghee
₹680 for 1 L
Milk: Buffalo, per the name
Method: From fresh cream, per the Amul shop page
Verdict: The familiar tin and the cheapest here. A price reference, not the pick for sweets where you taste the ghee.
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Ghee Price Index, October 2026: each brand's own shop page, or BigBasket where the brand does not sell the pack, 25 October 2026. Two Brothers is sold in 500 mL; shown per litre.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Authentic Urban | ₹1,999 a litre |
| Two Brothers | ₹1,990 a litre |
| Nuclear Farm Buffalo Ghee | ₹1,799 a litre |
| Parsi Dairy Farm | ₹1,744 a litre |
| Hitkram | ₹1,448 a litre |
| Barosi A2 Buffalo Ghee | ₹1,279 a litre |
| Anveshan | ₹1,073 a litre |
| Godrej Jersey Buffalo Ghee | ₹788 a litre |
| Dinshaws Buffalo Ghee | ₹706 a litre |
| Amul Buffalo Ghee | ₹680 a litre |
The first 6 jars are all sold as curd or Bilona ghee, so the method alone does not separate them. Two things do. Only ours and Anveshan's name the buffalo breed, and none of the other nine says the jar is made after you order. We cook yours once the order comes in and send the packing video on WhatsApp before it ships, which is why our jar is first.
The last four are dairy ghee. Three say they are made from cream, and one does not say how it is made. They are fine as a price reference, and the Amul tin is the cheapest jar here at ₹680 a litre. We would not pick any of them for a halwa where you taste every spoon. How ghee prices move through the year is on ghee price in India.
Why does buffalo Bilona ghee cost less than Gir cow ghee?
Because buffalo milk is richer, so it takes less of it. At our kitchen, 22 to 25 litres of buffalo milk make 1 kg of ghee, against 30 to 35 litres of Gir cow milk. That is why our buffalo ghee is ₹1,999 a litre and our Gir cow ghee is ₹2,399, with the same method and the same two days of work behind each.
Here is how a batch goes. The milk sets into curd overnight, 8 to 12 hours. The curd is churned for 30 to 45 minutes until the makkhan separates. The makkhan cooks slowly in a matki on a wood chulha for 45 to 90 minutes, and comes off the flame when the bubbling goes quiet and the solids turn golden brown. In winter the buffalo milk is at its richest, gives more makkhan per litre, and the ghee sets with a fine grain. In summer the fat drops and the curd sours faster. You can read every step, and our standing invitation to visit, on how we make our ghee.
Per spoon, the gap is small. A teaspoon is 5 mL, so a 1 L jar holds 200 of them. At ₹1,999 a litre, our buffalo ghee works out to about ₹10 a teaspoon. The Amul buffalo tin at ₹680 is about ₹3.40. The full method, and why curd ghee yields less than cream ghee, is on the Bilona method.
Is A2 buffalo ghee better than ordinary buffalo ghee?
No. All buffalo milk is A2, so "A2 buffalo ghee" describes every buffalo jar, the cheapest tin included. A1 and A2 are two forms of a milk protein, beta-casein. In a 2021 study in Tropical Animal Health and Production, de Oliveira and colleagues tested 657 buffaloes of four breeds and every one carried only the A2 form. The authors conclude that the A1 form "does not exist in the buffalo species".
Ghee also holds very little protein of any kind. The FSSAI standard for ghee (Food Products Standards, Chapter 2.1, version 2023) requires at least 99.5% milk fat and no more than 0.5% moisture. So when a buffalo jar puts A2 in its name, read it as a true fact that tells you nothing new, and judge the jar on the milk, the method, and the freshness instead. With cow ghee, A2 does separate desi breeds from crossbred dairy herds; that side is on A2 vs A1 ghee.
What is buffalo ghee best for?
Buffalo ghee is best for sweets, paratha, and halwa: food that wants a rich, heavy fat. For the daily spoon on roti and dal, cow ghee is lighter, and for frying, oil is the sensible choice.
Halwa, ladoo, gond and adadiya pak, festival sweets
Sweets use a lot of ghee and you taste every spoon of it. Buffalo ghee is richer and sets firmer, which these dishes want.
Paratha, puran poli, a winter tadka on heavy dal
A teaspoon on the tawa or in the tadka gives a fuller body than cow ghee.
The daily spoon on roti, dal, rice, or a child's plate
Authentic Urban A2 Gir cow ghee
Lighter and more aromatic for food you eat every day. ₹2,399 a litre.
Deep frying, pakora, a kadhai of puris
A cooking oil
Frying takes 200 mL or more at a time. Keep good ghee for the food you taste it in.
At home we eat a teaspoon or two each a day, and more in winter sweets like adadiya pak and gond. Sweets like these are where a buffalo jar earns its place. How the two ghees differ in Ayurveda and on the plate is on cow vs buffalo ghee, and the cow list is on best cow ghee in India. Whether it suits a hot month is on is buffalo ghee heat or cold.
Which states cook with buffalo ghee?
Buffaloes gave 43.62% of India's milk in 2023-24, against 53.12% from cows, according to the government's Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2024. The buffalo share is highest in the north and the Deccan. Uttar Pradesh produced about 24.4 million tonnes of buffalo milk against 13.1 million tonnes of cow milk, Haryana about 9.2 against 2.9, and Rajasthan, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana also produce more buffalo milk than cow milk.
In the south and east it is the other way round. Kerala produced about 15 thousand tonnes of buffalo milk against 2.4 million tonnes of cow milk, and Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are also mostly cow. So a "pure ghee" pouch from a southern dairy is far more likely to be cow ghee than buffalo, whatever its colour. Gujarat, where we are, sits close to even: about 8.2 million tonnes of buffalo milk against 9.7 of cow.
How to check a buffalo ghee label before you buy
Six questions, answered from the jar and one website, in about two minutes. Screenshot this list and use it in the shop or on the product page.
1. Does the front say buffalo?
"Pure ghee" or "desi ghee" does not name the animal. In our September 2026 price check, Amul Pure Ghee, Nandini Pure Ghee, and Saras Ghee did not name it on their pages.
2. Does Bilona come with the word curd or dahi?
Bilona means curd churned into makkhan, then cooked. A Bilona label that never mentions curd may be cream ghee with a traditional name.
3. Is a breed or a place named?
Jafarabadi, Murrah, or a named village or district. "Buffalo milk" with no breed and no place is a claim you take on trust.
4. Is A2 the reason for the price?
All buffalo milk is A2 (see above). A2 on a buffalo jar is true, but it is true of the cheapest tin too.
5. Is the FSSAI licence printed, and does it match?
Search the 14-digit number on foscos.fssai.gov.in. The business name and address should match the jar.
6. Is the pack date recent, and the price believable?
We need 22 to 25 litres of buffalo milk for 1 kg of ghee. A "Bilona" buffalo jar priced like a dairy tin does not add up.
For a premium jar, ask the brand for the lab report of your batch and compare it with the FSSAI limits for ghee: moisture at most 0.5%, milk fat at least 99.5%, free fatty acids at most 2.0%, a negative Baudouin test, and no β-sitosterol. The last two are the checks that catch vegetable oil and vanaspati mixed into ghee. We test our ghee against these limits every month. How to read a report line by line is on ghee lab test report.
Why is buffalo ghee white, and is a white jar pure?
Buffalo ghee is white because buffalo turn most of their beta-carotene, the yellow pigment in cow ghee, into colourless vitamin A before it can colour the fat. A 2017 study in PLoS One (Ullah and colleagues) describes buffalo metabolising beta-carotene mostly into vitamin A, while cow milk stores it in the fat globules. The milk still carries some: a 2019 Journal of Dairy Science study of Indian herds measured 5.50 µg per 100 mL in Jafarabadi buffalo milk. White to ivory is the normal colour of buffalo ghee, not a sign that something was added.
Colour cannot prove purity either way, so check the jar with your nose and a spoon. Warm a spoonful: good buffalo ghee melts clear and smells of toasted milk. A waxy, flat, or burnt smell is a warning. A burnt batch at our kitchen comes out dark, bitter, and smells burnt, and it never gets packed. Let a little set at room temperature; slow-cooked ghee usually forms grains as it cools, and ours always does. These checks catch a stale or badly made jar, but not the animal or the method. Try our 2-minute is my ghee pure check, and read how to identify pure ghee for every home test. More on colour in white ghee vs yellow ghee.
Buy buffalo ghee made after you order
Whichever brand you choose, check that the front says buffalo, that Bilona comes with the word curd, and that the FSSAI number matches on FoSCoS. Then smell it warm and ask for proof of the batch you are paying for.
With us, that proof comes to you. We cook your jar after you order, from grass-fed Jafarabadi buffalo milk set to curd, and send the packing video on WhatsApp before it ships. Buffalo ghee for sweets and parathas, A2 Gir cow ghee for the daily spoon. Free delivery across India, COD, and a 7-day quality return.
The daily spoon on roti and dal
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Sweets, paratha, and halwa
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Each order is cooked after you place it, and the packing video is of that batch. Past order videos are on the shop.
FAQ
Which is the best buffalo ghee brand in India?
Our pick is Authentic Urban Jafarabadi buffalo ghee. It comes from grass-fed village buffalo near the Gir forest with no hormones, is set to curd, hand-churned, and cooked on a wood chulha only after you order, and you get a video of your own jar. It costs ₹1,999 a litre. Two Brothers, Nuclear Farm, and Anveshan are the next strongest, all sold as curd ghee.
Is Amul ghee cow ghee or buffalo ghee?
Amul sells three separate packs. On the Amul shop in October 2026, Buffalo Ghee was ₹680 for 1 L, Cow Ghee ₹705, and Pure Ghee ₹700. Pure Ghee does not name the animal on its page, so it can be cow, buffalo, or a mix. If you want buffalo ghee, buy the pack that says buffalo on the front.
Is buffalo ghee heat or cold for the body?
In Ayurveda texts buffalo ghee is described as cooling, like cow ghee, but heavier and harder to digest. That is tradition, not a clinical finding. In practice most homes use it where a heavy fat suits the dish: winter sweets, paratha, and halwa. In May and June, if buffalo ghee is the only jar at home, keep the daily spoon small.
Is Murrah or Jafarabadi buffalo ghee better?
Both are Indian buffalo breeds. Murrah is the best-known breed in Haryana and Punjab; Jafarabadi is the local breed around us in Gir Somnath, Gujarat. We have not seen a study that compares the ghee of the two. A named breed matters for a simpler reason: it tells you the maker knows which animals the milk came from, which a plain "buffalo ghee" label does not.
Why did my buffalo ghee arrive melted?
Heat in transit. Ghee is a fat that softens and turns liquid in a hot van or a warm room, and in summer it can stay liquid in the jar. A melted or leaked jar in summer is one of the complaints we hear most. It is not spoiled. Keep it in a cool place and it will set again. Smell it: toasted milk is fine, a sour or rancid smell is not.
Does buffalo ghee need to be kept in the fridge?
No. A sealed jar of our ghee keeps 9 to 12 months at room temperature. Once it is open, use a dry spoon every time, keep the lid shut, and store it away from the stove and sunlight. Water and steam spoil ghee faster than warmth does, so a wet spoon is the bigger risk than skipping the fridge.
About the editorial team
Authentic Urban TeamBilona ghee makers, Gir Somnath, Gujarat
We are the Parmar family in Gir Somnath, Gujarat. We have made ghee here since 2016 and sold it online since 2025. We make only Bilona ghee, test it every month, and anyone is welcome to visit and watch it being made. Our Gir cows and Jafarabadi buffalo are grass-fed village animals that graze near the Gir forest, with no hormones or milk boosters. We set their milk to curd, churn it, and cook the makkhan on a wood chulha. These articles come from that kitchen and from what customers ask us on WhatsApp. We are ghee makers, not doctors.
Sources
- Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, Chapter 2.1: Dairy products and analogues, version 01.09.2023, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- de Oliveira LSM et al. Water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) only have A2A2 genotype for beta-casein. Tropical Animal Health and Production 53, 145 (2021), Tropical Animal Health and Production (Springer), via PubMed 33511501. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Ullah R et al. Identification of cow and buffalo milk based on beta carotene and vitamin-A concentration using fluorescence spectroscopy. PLoS One (2017), PLoS One, via PubMed Central PMC5436857. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Bertolini F et al. Marker discovery and associations with β-carotene content in Indian dairy cattle and buffalo breeds. J Dairy Sci 2019;102(11):10039-10055, PubMed Central. Checked 29 Sep 2026.
- Milk obtained from cow and buffaloes (Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2024, Lok Sabha reply, 12 August 2025), Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. Checked 27 Sep 2026.