jaggery
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- noun
- /ˈdʒæɡəri/
- Indian
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jaggery
- Jaggery and rock salt, which are important ingredients, provide energy and replenish lost nutrients, says Setalvad.
Examples
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They call it "jaggery" or "gur" in the recipes in my cookbook.
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They get their bright color from food coloring and they're filled with coconut and jaggery, which is a cane sugar that is hugely popular in India.
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The teardrop-shaped dumpling is kneaded from rice flour and stuffed with coconut and jaggery, an unrefined whole cane sugar.
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The Sankalp pledge to complete this Mantra Sadhana successfully has to be done in a Ganesha Temple by offering a prasad of jaggery and dried coconut.
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One of my favorite childhood snacks was peanuts with bits of jaggery.
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The teardrop-shaped dumpling is kneaded from rice flour and stuffed with coconut and jaggery, an unrefined whole cane sugar.
Synonyms
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Sweetener made from the tall plant sugarcane used to sweeten food and drinks
A raw brown sugar made from the juice of palm or sugarcane
Dark brown sugar made from the juice of palm trees or sugarcane
Compounds
- Indian
A tall palm whose sweet sap makes jaggery and whose soft inner trunk gives sago
How Refined
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jaggery comes from South Asian names for this kind of sweet, such as Hindi gur, and it came into English through trade with India. So jaggery is simply the traditional 'unrefined brown sugar' made from 'palm sap' or 'sugarcane', used in cooking.