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Lohri
Punjab lights bonfires in midwinter and throws sesame sweets, peanuts and popcorn into the flames.
What is eaten for Lohri
Lohri is the Punjabi midwinter bonfire night, kept the evening before Makar Sankranti. Families gather round the fire and throw in sesame seeds, jaggery, peanuts and popcorn as thanks for the winter crop, then eat the same things themselves. Sesame brittle and the thin sesame sweets called rewri and gajak are passed round. Dinner is the winter meal of the Punjab plains: mustard greens cooked slowly with butter, eaten with flatbread made from maize flour.
The dishes
Also part of it, and being written: Makki ki roti (Maize flatbread eaten with the greens.), Sesame seed candy (Small sesame and sugar sweets thrown into the fire and eaten.), Gajak (Sesame and jaggery brittle of the north Indian winter.), Popcorn (Offered to the bonfire with peanuts.).
Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Lohri" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.