Indulgences in Punjabi: 6 Travel Phrases with Audio

ਮਠਿਆਈ
Mathiaaee
Mithai (Indian sweets)
Usage
The general word for the sweets made from milk or flour and sugar. In a sweet shop you point and buy by weight. Almost all of them contain dairy and many are topped with nuts.
ਗੁੜ
Gurh
Gur (unrefined cane jaggery)
Usage
Cane juice boiled down and set into a solid block of unrefined sugar. Sold in lumps and eaten as a piece after a meal, and used to sweeten winter sweets.
ਗੱਚਕ
Gachchak
Gachak (jaggery and sesame brittle)
Usage
Jaggery (ਗੁੜ) set into a thin slab with sesame seeds or peanuts. It appears in the shops only in winter. Contains sesame and peanuts, so avoid it if you are allergic.
ਲੱਡੂ
Laddoo
Laddu (round sweet ball)
Usage
Small fried droplets of gram-flour batter bound with sugar syrup and rolled into a ball. One of the commonest shapes in a sweet shop. Made with ghee, so it contains milk fat.
ਗੁਲਗੁਲੇ
Gulgule
Gulgule (sweet fried dumplings)
Usage
Wheat flour mixed with jaggery (ਗੁੜ) or sugar, dropped in rounds and fried. A homemade sweet, so you will not always find it in a shop. Contains wheat.
ਮੱਠੀ
Matthee
Mathi (crisp fried biscuit)
Usage
Wheat dough enriched with fat, shaped flat and fried until hard. Made both salty and sweet; the salty one is normally eaten with tea. It keeps well, which makes it a good thing to carry away. Contains wheat.

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