Andhra Pradesh - Pulihora And Pootharekulu

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PULIHORA

                                           

 Andhra Pradesh food comprises of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. The prime food is rice as it is also called “Rice bowl of India“, the meal is served on a banana leaf. One of the main ingredients is tamarind along with curry leaves, tomatoes, and mustard seeds.

Some of the famous dishes of Andhra Pradesh are Idly, Dosa and sambar, Pesarattu, Upma, curd rice, and various curries. In the coastal area, seafood is common, where fish and prawns are cooked with sesame and coconut oil. Their curry is a blend of Mughlai Cuisine, any curry served with rice, and a lot of pickles.

One of the famous food of Andhra Pradesh is Pulihora which is tamarind rice and is a traditional south Indian dish and a mouth-watering delicacy.

Pootharekulu

Pootharekulu (plural) or poothareku (singular) is a popular Indian sweet from the Andhra Pradesh state of south-east India.[1] The sweet is wrapped in a wafer-thin rice starch layer resembling paper and is stuffed with sugar, dry fruits and nuts. The sweet is popular for festivals, religious occasions and weddings in the Telugu states.

The name of the sweet literally means 'coated sheet' in the Telugu language—pootha means 'coating' and reku (plural rekulu) means 'sheet' in Telugu. The making of pootharekulu is a cottage industry in Atreyapuram, where around 400 families are dependent on the making and marketing of the sweet. As of October 2018, the state of Andhra Pradesh was said to be in the process of applying for Geographic Indication (GI) tag for the sweet.Pootharekulu were created in Atreyapuram, a village and mandal headquarters in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

The sweet has a history of a few centuries (three centuries by some accounts).It is said that a village woman first prepared the sweet by adding sugar and ghee to leftover rice starch.Atreyapuram villagers soon started making wrappers from rice flour, put sugar and ghee inside and folded them. They supply them to sweet manufacturers all over the two Telugu states.




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