Pootharekulu
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Pootharekulu (plural) or poothareku (singular) is a popular Indian sweet from the Andhra Pradesh state of south India. 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.
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It sits within the topics Andhra cuisine, Indian confectionery and Indian desserts.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- dish
- Subclass of
- food
- Part of
- Telugu cuisine
- Has part
- rice
- Country of origin
- India
- Creator
- Atreyapuram
- Image
- Pootharekulu dry fruits.jpg
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Pootharekulu (plural) or poothareku (singular) is a popular Indian sweet from the Andhra Pradesh state of south India. 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. the state of Andhra Pradesh was said to be in the process of applying for Geographic Indication (GI) tag for the sweet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pootharekulu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.