Can I Substitute Palm Oil When Frying Snacks at Home?

If you are trying to recreate traditional Indian street snacks at home, many modern recipes unfortunately call for refined vegetable oils or palm oil blends because they are cheap and have a high smoke point.

Frying your homemade food in industrial seed oils completely destroys the health benefits of cooking at home. When these highly refined oils are heated, they rapidly oxidize and release toxic free radicals into your food. You must substitute these toxic oils with a traditional fat that remains highly stable under intense heat.

Pure desi ghee is the ultimate, historically authentic frying medium. It has an exceptionally high smoke point, meaning it does not break down or become toxic when hot. Furthermore, it imparts a deeply rich, luxurious flavor to the food that cheap oils can never replicate. This is exactly why we use it exclusively for our premium masala nut mixes.

The Uncompromising PEXO Standard

Never ruin healthy ingredients with toxic cooking oils. PEXO Nuts relies entirely on the extreme stability and authentic flavor of pure desi ghee.