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Guru Nanak Gurpurab

The birthday of the first Sikh Guru, with langar for thousands: dal, rice, kheer and sweet halwa.

Akal Takht illuminated, in Harmandir Sahib complex, Amritsar.
Photo: Giridhar Appaji Nag Y, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Gurpurab begins with a continuous reading of scripture and ends with a procession. Gurdwaras serve vast langar meals, with free dal, vegetable dishes, roti and kheer, to all visitors, and tea brewed with ginger, cardamom and sometimes cloves is poured throughout the day. Karah prashad, wheat, ghee and sugar cooked together, may be perfumed with cardamom and is given to every person at the end of the service. Spice use is gentle so that everyone, whatever their diet, can eat.

The spices

GingerPart of the spiced tea poured at langar.CardamomPerfumes kheer and prashad.CloveAdded to spiced tea in cold weather.
About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Guru Nanak Gurpurab" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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