jaggery
/ˈdʒæɡəri/
noun
- A type of unrefined sugar made from the sap of palm trees or sugarcane, commonly used in South Asian and Southeast Asian cooking.
- The farmer collected palm sap to boil down into blocks of jaggery.
- Jaggery is often used in traditional Indian sweets like payasam and laddu.
- She sweetened the dessert with a spoonful of jaggery instead of white sugar.