Jaggery
Jaggery (also transcribed as jaggeree ) is traditionally unrefined sugar ( cane sugar ) that is used throughout South and Southeast Asia .
origin
Although the term jaggery is used to refer to both sugar cane and date palm products, the word only refers to sugar cane sugar. The palm sugar , made from the sap of the date palm, is not only more expensive, but also less common outside of the areas where it is made. The sago palm and coconut palm are also tapped for sugar production in southern India. In Mexico and South America , similar sugar cane products are also known as panela , piloncillo or rapadura (Brazil). In Myanmar , jaggery, known there as htanyet , is made from the syrup of the Caryota.
The main producer of jaggery is India. The district of Muzaffarnagar in the state of Uttar Pradesh has the largest jaggery market in the world, followed by Anakapalli in the district of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh .
Jaggery comes in blocks of pastes from solidified sugar syrup concentrates that have been heated up to 200 ° C. Traditionally, the syrup is made by boiling pure sugar cane juice or palm juice in a large vessel with a round bottom (see photo).
properties
Jaggery contains more mineral salts than refined sugar and, moreover, no chemical agents are required to make it. Indian Ayurvedic medicine values jaggery for its benefits in curing throat and lung infections . Through animal experiments with rats, Sahu and Saxena found that jaggery can prevent lung damage from particulate materials such as carbon and silicon dust. Gandhi believed that jaggery was healthier than refined sugar because it did not pass into the blood as quickly and also recommended it in his own goat milk diet.
use
Jaggery is used as an ingredient in both sweet and savory dishes in India and Sri Lanka . For example, jaggery is used in the South Indian sauces sambar and rasam and is sometimes added to the Nordic dal . Another use is jaggery as a sweet , for example pure, as toffee or processed into cakes. Jaggery is also used in the preparation of some spirits. In addition, jaggery is seen as auspicious in parts of India and consumed on special occasions.
In Myanmar, jaggery, called htanyet, is traditionally consumed in the evening with a cup of green tea and is also known locally as Burmese chocolate. Jaggery is also mixed with coconut , plum or sesame in Myanmar and can be found in typical local cuisine.
In addition to being used as a food, jaggery is also used to flavor the tandoor oven.
Jaggery terms
- Bella on Kannada
- Bellam on Telugu
- Chakkara in Malayalam (made from palm wine )
- Gaur in Gujarati
- Gud to Gor in Hindi and Punjabi
- Gul in Marathi
- Gula Melaka in Malaysia
- Gur in Urdu , Bengali and Assamese
- Hakuru in Sinhala
- Htanyet in Burmese
- Panela and piloncillo in Latin America
- Panocha or Panutsa in the Philippines
- Rapadou in Haiti
- Sharkara in Sanskrit
- Sharkara in Malayalam (made from sugar cane)
- Valle Bella on Tulu
- Vellam in Tamil
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anand P. Sahu, Ashok K. Saxena: Enhanced Translocation of Particles from Lungs by Jaggery . In: Environmental Health Perspectives . 102, No. S5, October 1994, pp. 211-214. doi : 10.2307 / 3432088 . PMID 7882934 .
- ↑ Gandhi diet make-up and info ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
