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palm sugar

noun

  1. sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.


palm sugar

noun

  1. sugar obtained from the sap of certain species of palm trees
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of palm sugar1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

“I use tamarind sauce, fish sauce and white vinegar, among other ingredients my parents used in their restaurant. I also use palm sugar, which we create from mashing the palm.”

He also says the government has offered to train people how to farm honey from the forest and produce palm sugar to try to move them away from the charcoal industry, but he admits: "It hasn't been successful yet. It's hard to break something that has been done from generation to generation."

From BBC

Listed as a cilantro aioli, it has a much thinner consistency, mixing fresh cilantro with garlic, Thai chiles, lime juice, fish sauce, mayo and palm sugar syrup.

During the pandemic, he opened a small restaurant where he showcases the bounty of his ancestral land: fresh-caught seafood such as tuna and octopus; juruh, a housemade palm sugar syrup produced from lontar palm nectar; and sea salt harvested from the nearby coast.

You can buy a curry kit that includes both red and green curry paste, coconut milk, vegetable oil, fish sauce and palm sugar to re-create her grandmother’s curry at home.

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