How Much Milk Does It Take to Make Real Ghee? One of the biggest differences between traditional ghee and industrial ghee is the amount of milk required. In the traditional bilona method, ghee begins with milk — not cream. Milk is first set into curd, the curd is slowly churned to extract butter, and that butter is gently heated to become ghee. Because of this process, it takes about 25–30 litres of milk to produce 1 litre of bilona ghee. This is why traditional ghee was alwa