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Gula jawa has an earthy aroma and deep sweetness with a darker colour closely resembling molasses, [8] while gula aren has paler colour. [9] Gula melaka is a type of palm sugar made from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm, or less commonly, other palms. [10] It can be dense and sticky.
Gula melaka is a Southeast Asian name for palm sugar [4] or "malacca sugar", [5] probably named for its origin in the state of Malacca, Malaysia. [6] It is usually derived from coconut palms, but sometimes from other palms. [5] It is used in savory dishes, but mainly in local desserts and cakes of the Southeast Asian region. [citation needed]
Jaggery is a traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar [1] consumed in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, North America, [2] Central America, Brazil and Africa. [3] It is a concentrated product of cane juice and often date or palm sap without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in colour.
A popular type of cucur in Brunei and Malaysia is Jemput-jemput (also known as Cokodok) and Pinjaram (also known as Kuih cucur gula merah/melaka). In Southern Thailand, it is often featured in wedding ceremonies and festivals. The dessert, made of fried rice flour mixed with palm sugar, is thick in the middle and thin at the edges. It is eaten ...
The strong sweet taste is contributed by a generous amount of palm sugar — the sauce may contain up to 50 percent gula merah or gula jawa (palm sugar jaggery). Indonesian sweet soy sauce is often enriched with spices, including star anise, cinnamon, black pepper, coriander, and clove. [2]
Klepon is a boiled rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar (gula jawa/merah/melaka) and coated in flaked coconut. [6] The dough is made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes mixed with tapioca (or sweet potato alternatively) [5] and a paste made from the leaves of the pandan or dracaena plants — whose leaves are used widely in Southeast Asian cooking — giving the dough its green colour.
Brown: the brown colour is acquired from gula merah or gula jawa (coconut sugar). [6] Yellow: the yellow bottom is acquired from red or yellow sweet potato, [2] pumpkin or corn. Purple: the purple colour is acquired from ubi ungu or purple yam or taro. [7]
Cendol / ˈ tʃ ɛ n d ɒ l / is an iced sweet dessert that contains pandan-flavoured green rice flour jelly, [1] coconut milk, and palm sugar syrup. [2] It is popular in the Southeast Asian nations of Indonesia, [3] Malaysia, [4] Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Myanmar.