Dishes made with jaggery
25 dishes from around the world that list jaggery as a main ingredient.
MahaprasadVegetarianମହାପ୍ରସାଦ
🇮🇳 IndiaSanctified vegetarian food served at the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Jolpan
🇮🇳 IndiaAssamese breakfast snacks of rice, pitha, and sweets, often served with tea or curd
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
AasmiVeganආස්මී
🇱🇰 Sri LankaSri Lankan sweet made from rice flour, coconut milk, and cinnamon or okra juice
Sweet or dessert
AggalaVeganඅග්ගලා
🇱🇰 Sri LankaSri Lankan sweet balls made with rice, coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
KheerVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreA sweet pudding of rice, milk and sugar, flavoured with cardamom and nuts
Sweet or dessert
LadduVegetarianलड्डू
🇮🇳 IndiaRound Indian sweet made with flour, sugar, ghee and often nuts or dried fruit
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
RasamVeganரசம்
🇮🇳 IndiaA spiced, tangy South Indian soup served hot with rice
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
ModakVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreA sweet dumpling with coconut and jaggery, offered in Hindu and Buddhist rituals
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Puran PoliVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSweet stuffed flatbread enjoyed at festivals and special occasions in India
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
Pongal
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRice cooked in milk, central to the Tamil harvest festival
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Pitha
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreRice or wheat cakes, sweet or savoury, steamed, fried or griddled in eastern South Asia
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
SandeshVegetarianসন্দেশ
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreBengali sweet made from chhena and sugar, often shaped and flavoured
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
ThekuaVegetarian
🇳🇵 Nepal and 1 moreFried sweet made from wheat flour, ghee and sugar or jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Mishti doiVegetarianমিষ্টি দই
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSweetened fermented yogurt from Bengal, set in earthen pots
Sweet or dessert
ChikkiVegan
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreA brittle Indian sweet made from nuts and jaggery or sugar
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
WatalappamVegetarian
🇱🇰 Sri LankaSri Lankan coconut custard pudding with jaggery, spices and cashew nuts
Sweet or dessert
AnarsaVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRice flour and jaggery sweet fried with poppy seeds, eaten at Diwali
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
PulihoraVegan
🇮🇳 IndiaSouth Indian rice mixed with tangy tamarind or kokum and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
ChurmaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaCoarse wheat or millet crushed with ghee and sugar or jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Lunch, Dinner
GajakVegan
🇮🇳 IndiaCrisp Indian sweet made from sesame seeds and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Bhapa pithaVegan
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 moreSteamed rice cake with coconut and molasses filling from Bengal and Bangladesh
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Unni appamVegetarianഉണ്ണിയപ്പം
🇮🇳 IndiaSweet fried rice cakes with banana and jaggery from Kerala
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
TilgulVegan
🇮🇳 IndiaSesame and jaggery sweet exchanged during winter festivals in Maharashtra
Sweet or dessert
BibikkanVegetarianබිබික්කන්
🇱🇰 Sri LankaA dark, moist Sri Lankan cake made with coconut, jaggery and spices
Sweet or dessert
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mahaprasad: Government of Odisha, CC BY 4.0, source
- Laddu: Rajdeep Das, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kheer: stu spivack, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Rasam: Miansari66, Public domain, source
- Modak: MAHESH MUTTA, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jolpan: Floris van Dyck, Public domain, source
- Puran Poli: No machine-readable author provided. Pamri assumed (based on copyright, Public domain, source
- Pongal: Jennifer Kumar, Public domain, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sandesh: Sucharitabanerji, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Thekua: Magadhkingdom, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mishti doi: Kirti Poddar, CC BY 2.0, source
- Watalappam: Ankur P, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chikki: Zeel Patel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Churma: Ravinder Narwal, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Anarsa: Ukr07, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pitha: Mohammed Tawsif Salam, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pulihora: Mkr.lines, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gajak: Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Unni appam: Riyaz Ahamed at Malayalam Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Bhapa pitha: Rocky Masum, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tilgul: Saloni Desai, CC BY-SA 2.0, source