Gur Ghee

A simple but deeply traditional Punjabi ending to a meal — a small bowl of jaggery (gur) eaten alongside a spoon of pure desi ghee, or the two worked together with the back of a spoon into a coarse paste. The combination eaten with the last roti of a meal is a centuries-old Punjabi rural tradition; the jaggery provides iron and natural sweetness, the ghee provides fat and fat-soluble vitamins, and together they are considered deeply nourishing. In the days before commercial sweets were available, gur ghee was the Punjabi daily dessert, still maintained in farming households across the Doaba and Majha regions.