Jaggery Blocks
Gur in cubes, round bhelis and moulded blocks, from sugarcane, date palm and palmyra, to break off for tea, sweets, chikki and the after-meal bite.
0 products
No products in this category yet.
In many homes the meal is not over until someone breaks a small piece off the gur block in the kitchen. Jaggery blocks are the oldest form of the sweetener, set in moulds while the boiled-down cane juice is still warm.
They come in cubes, round bhelis, buckets and big slabs. Sugarcane jaggery ranges from pale gold to dark brown depending on the cane and the boiling. Date palm jaggery, nolen gur in Bengal, arrives in winter and goes into sandesh and payesh. Palm jaggery from palmyra, karupatti in Tamil Nadu, is darker and earthier.
Colour is not proof of anything on its own, so read the pack: it should name the source, list ingredients and show an FSSAI licence with the maker's details and dates. At home, store blocks in a lidded jar; jaggery left open sweats and softens in the monsoon. A heavy knife or pestle makes breaking it easier.