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Palm sugar

Palm sugar is a sugar made from sap resin. Cooks use it as a sweetener.

Part used
Sap resin
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Palm sugar, whole

Photo: Badagnani · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use palm sugar

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Sweeten

Around the world

Where palm sugar is cooked

90 dishes in the catalogue use palm sugar. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list palm sugar among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with palm sugar

48 of the 90 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Coto makassar

    Indonesia

  • Matang satay

    Indonesia

  • Gado-gado

    Indonesia

  • Nasi gandul

    Indonesia

  • Soto Betawi

    Indonesia

  • Rujak soto

    Indonesia

  • Kikil satay

    Indonesia

  • Rujak kuah pindang

    Indonesia

  • Ayam goreng Kalasan

    Indonesia

  • Jepara grilled opor

    Indonesia

  • Pallumara Ikan Sunu

    Indonesia

  • Maranggi satay

    Indonesia

  • Jengkol stew

    Indonesia

  • Pempek

    Indonesia

  • Satay kalong

    Indonesia

  • Tempe orek

    Indonesia

  • Ambal satay

    Indonesia

  • Baayak Porridge

    Indonesia

  • Dadar gulung

    Indonesia

  • Kerak telor

    Indonesia

  • Putri mandi

    Indonesia

  • Siomay

    Indonesia

  • Balungan hayam

    Indonesia

  • Pempek lenggang

    Indonesia

  • Serundeng

    Indonesia

  • Cendol

    Indonesia

  • Colenak

    Indonesia

  • Jenang kudus

    Indonesia

  • Ketan sarikaya

    Indonesia

  • Lampet

    Indonesia

  • Rabbit satay

    Indonesia

  • Wajik

    Indonesia

  • Bubur gunting

    Indonesia

  • Bubur ketan hitam

    Indonesia

  • Kolak

    Indonesia

  • Kue putu mayang

    Indonesia

  • Lapek sagan

    Indonesia

  • Lupis

    Indonesia

  • Mustofa Potatoes

    Indonesia

  • Pupudak baras

    Indonesia

  • Randang porridge

    Indonesia

  • Rice bread

    Indonesia

  • Sate buntel

    Indonesia

  • Babungku

    Indonesia

  • Bola Ubi

    Indonesia

  • Buffalo satay, kudus

    Indonesia

  • Egyptian martabak

    Indonesia

  • Getuk Goreng

    Indonesia

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

Family

Related forms

A kind of
sugar
Kinds
coconut sugar

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What palm sugar is called

Names in 41 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    azúcar de palma · Azucar de palma

  • French

    sucre de palme

  • Italian

    zucchero di palma

  • Portuguese

    açúcar de coco

  • German

    Palmzucker · Kokoszucker · Kokosblütenzucker

  • Dutch

    palmsuiker · kokosnootsuiker

  • Greek

    Ζάχαρη φοίνικα

  • Russian

    Пальмовый сахар

  • Polish

    Cukier palmowy

  • Persian

    شکر پالم

  • Hebrew

    סוכר דקלים

  • Chinese

    棕櫚糖 · 棕榈糖

Show all 41 languages

  • Banjar

    Gula habang

  • Betawi

    Gula arèn

  • Burmese

    ထန်းလျက်

  • Cantonese

    棕櫚糖

  • Catalan

    Sucre de palma

  • Czech

    Palmový cukr

  • Esperanto

    palma sukero

  • Gorontalo

    Pahangga

  • Hungarian

    pálmacukor

  • Iban

    Gula melaka

  • Indonesian

    gula merah · gula jawa · gula aren

  • Japanese

    パームシュガー · ヤシ糖 · 椰子糖

  • Javanese

    gula Jawa · gula abang

  • Khmer

    ស្ករត្នោត · ស្កត្នោត

  • Korean

    야자당 · 야자 설탕 · 야자나무 설탕 · 종려당

  • Latvian

    palmu cukurs

  • Malay

    Gula Melaka

  • Malayalam

    ചക്കര · കരിപ്പെട്ടി

  • Minangkabau

    Gulo saka

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    palmesukker

  • Serbian

    Палмин шећер

  • Shan

    ၼမ်ႉထၢၼ် · ၵွၼ်ႈၼမ်ႉထၢၼ် · ၵွၼ်ႈထၢၼ်

  • Slovenian

    palmov sladkor

  • Sundanese

    gula kawung

  • Swedish

    palmsocker

  • Telugu

    తాటి బెల్లం

  • Thai

    น้ำตาลปี๊บ · น้ำตาลปึก

  • Ukrainian

    пальмовий цукор

  • Vietnamese

    đường thốt nốt

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: Q1549017

Photos

Photo: Badagnani · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons