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Deutsch: Jambalaya / Español: Jambalaya / Português: Jambalaya / Français: Jambalaya / Italiano: Jambalaya

Jambalaya is a popular Cajun and Creole dish from the Southern United States, particularly Louisiana. It is a hearty, flavorful dish that combines rice with a variety of other ingredients including tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and a mix of meat and seafood. The meats typically used are sausage, chicken, and shrimp, but other meats like pork or duck can also be included.

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Jaiba is the Taino word for " fresh water crab"

The jalapeño is a medium-sized chili pepper pod type cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum. A mature jalapeño chili is 5–10 cm long and hangs down with a round, firm, smooth flesh of 25–38 mm wide.

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Deutsch: Palmzucker / Español: Panela / Português: Rapadura / Français: Sucre de palme / Italiano: Zucchero di palma /

Jaggery (Panela) or Gudh is a "natural" sweetener made with the concentrated sugarcane juice.

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Jamon is a Spanish word for ham. Jamon (Spanish) is akso a filipino term for ham, and it typically refers to the cured ham that is a staple of Spanish cuisine.

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Deutsch: Jackfrucht / Indian: Chakka
The jackfruit (alternately jack tree, jakfruit, or sometimes simply jack or jak. Artocarpus heterophyllus), is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family (Moraceae). It is native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, and is believed to have originated in the southwestern rain forests of India, in present-day Kerala, coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra. The jackfruit tree is well suited to tropical lowlands, and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit, reaching as much as 36 kg in weight and up to 90 cm long and 50 cm in diameter.

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