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Gajak

Breads, Flatbreads and Savory Pastries

Gajak is a dry, brittle confection from north central India made by cooking sesame seeds in jaggery syrup and setting the mixture in thin layers, sometimes with added peanuts. It is also known as tilsakri, tilpatti or tilpapdi, and a batch of five to eight kilograms can take ten to fifteen hours to prepare. It keeps for months and is made in several varieties, including versions with dried fruit, chocolate or pistachio. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Dessert 1
Origin Region
India 1
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Uses Ingredient

Jaggery, Ingredients
Source Gajak (Wikipedia)
Peanut, Ingredients
Source Gajak (Wikipedia)
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1. Gajak (Wikidata)
  • P495 (country of origin): India
    India
  • P31 (instance of): Dessert
    Dessert
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Gajak (Wikipedia)
  • Uses Ingredient: Peanut, Infobox main_ingredient field: [[Sesame seeds]], [[jaggery]], [[peanut]]s
  • Uses Ingredient: Jaggery, Infobox main_ingredient field: [[Sesame seeds]], [[jaggery]], [[peanut]]s
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