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Sugars & sweeteners

Jaggery

Also called jaggeree

Jaggery is a soft sugar made from sap resin and sold as a paste. Cooks use it to sweeten dishes with lentils, coconut, milk, or coriander seeds.

Part used
Sap resin
Texture
Soft
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Jaggery, market

Photo: Halima Waziri · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use jaggery

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Sweeten

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Soft

Shopping

Choosing and storing jaggery

Sold as
Paste

On the table

Dishes made with jaggery

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Getuk pero

    Indonesia

  • Katt Bafla

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include jaggery.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
sugar

Around the world

What jaggery is called

Names in 43 languages, from Wikidata.

  • French

    jaggery · Sucre de palme · gur

  • Italian

    Jaggery

  • Portuguese

    jagra

  • German

    Jaggery

  • Dutch

    jaggery

  • Russian

    Джаггери

  • Polish

    Cukier trzcinowy

  • Arabic

    جكر · سكر جلاب · السكر الجلاب · جاكري

  • Persian

    شکر زرد · گور

  • Hindi

    गुड़ · गुढ़

  • Bangla

    গুড়

  • Urdu

    گڑ

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  • Assamese

    গুড় · গুৰ · চুৰা

  • Basque

    Jaggery

  • Bhojpuri

    गुड़

  • Bulgarian

    Джагери

  • Burmese

    ထန်းလျက်

  • Cantonese

    片糖

  • Chinese

    石蜜 · 片糖 · 混糖

  • Gujarati

    ગોળ

  • Indonesian

    Sarkara

  • Japanese

    ジャガリー · ジャグリー · 赤糖

  • Javanese

    Gula abang

  • Kannada

    ಬೆಲ್ಲ

  • Korean

    재거리

  • Latin

    Iagra

  • Malay

    Jageri

  • Malayalam

    ശർക്കര · വെല്ലം · Jaggery

  • Marathi

    गूळ · गुळ

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    jaggery

  • Pashto

    گوړه

  • Punjabi

    ਗੁੜ

  • Sanskrit

    गुडः

  • Santali

    ᱜᱩᱲ

  • Scottish Gaelic

    Seagaraidh

  • Simplified Chinese

    石蜜

  • Sindhi

    ڳڙ

  • Slovenian

    nerafinirani trsni sladkor · jaggery

  • Tamil

    வெல்லம் · கருப்பட்டி · அச்சு வெல்லம் · பனங்கருப்பட்டி

  • Telugu

    బెల్లం · బెల్లము

  • Thai

    น้ำตาลโตนด

  • Traditional Chinese

    石蜜

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    石蜜

  • Tulu

    ಬೆಲ್ಲ

  • Ukrainian

    джаґґері

  • Western Panjabi

    گڑ

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1148077

Photos

Photo: Halima Waziri · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons