After hearing a co-worker that she had Gajjak - See link after her father got them from Karachi I thought I will research it a bit more at our end about how these sweets have become popular across. I always intrugued how sweets from certian part of India have become so popular around. I never heard people enjoying traidtionally North Indian sweets like kaju barfi or Rassa malai become so populuar everywhere. But born and brought in Calcutta and originally from North India where all the sweets origin from and my father always a connoseur of good sweet , a true brahman. I always felt I grew with a deep understanding of sweets of India. But I really feel the best done work on that certainly is done by Raghav Khanna using his articles especially in Hindi language but the Raja, Rasoi Aur Anya Kahaniyaan in Netflix is an excellent introduction to even me when I thought I was good enough Indiophile.
So this time because my travels took me to different portions of India got these sweets so thought of researching a bit more of them and as I interacted with people and tried to answer their question, learned a bit more came to know more about the sweets.
From Northern part of India
Mungfali Gajak - A white teel only - never a काला तिल (sesame seeds) sugar jaggery and peanut dessert. But interesting is other gajak see this link where a north Indian foodies describes the other gajjak and similar sweets like Rewdi and Laccha.
History - Origin from Chambal Valley in MP where you get both good sugarcane गणना and Sesame seeds (तिल). Gajjak is especially helpful during the dry heat and cold of harsh Chambal valley. Thus the most famous Gajak are from Morena Gajjak - See link. Again a misconception of people from Kanpur who feel Gajjak is from Kanpur area as Kanpur is the first big city close to Chambal valley.
So this time because my travels took me to different portions of India got these sweets so thought of researching a bit more of them and as I interacted with people and tried to answer their question, learned a bit more came to know more about the sweets.
From Northern part of India
Mungfali Gajak - A white teel only - never a काला तिल (sesame seeds) sugar jaggery and peanut dessert. But interesting is other gajak see this link where a north Indian foodies describes the other gajjak and similar sweets like Rewdi and Laccha.
History - Origin from Chambal Valley in MP where you get both good sugarcane गणना and Sesame seeds (तिल). Gajjak is especially helpful during the dry heat and cold of harsh Chambal valley. Thus the most famous Gajak are from Morena Gajjak - See link. Again a misconception of people from Kanpur who feel Gajjak is from Kanpur area as Kanpur is the first big city close to Chambal valley.
