Home Made Sweet
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Selecting a set of layers out of rice layers.
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Picking up two layers.
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Making a suitable combination of layers to make sure of no leakage holes or cuts.
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After spreading powdered sugar, pouring a bit of indian butter over it.
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After putting indian butter, its time to fold the sheets.
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After making 2 folds from both sides, it looks like this.
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Putting powdered sugar again on the folded layer.
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Pouring 1 spoon of indian butter again over powdered sugar.
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Indian butter is spreaded over the layer, now its time for a final fold.
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Final fold is done in this way, such that all the layers are sandwiched.
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The sets are ready to consume - life of 1 product is 1 week.
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People enjoying this crunchy and sweet snack on road side.
Pootharekulu, Putharekulu, or Putarekulu, some times called "Paper Sweets" by the Andhra people, is a sweet dish of Eastern and Coastal Andhra Pradesh of Southern India. It is a sweet version of a Vegetable Roll where the vegetables are replaced by finely ground sugar powder in finely laminated foils made of rice. The wafer's size varies from 100 to 1000 micrometers depending on the expertise of the person who makes it.
Pootharekulu was probably developed by the Brahmin families of Rajahmundry City in East Godawari district of Andhra Pradesh 16th century AD. In the Telugu language, pootha means "coating OR to coat," and reku means a foil, translating to english as "sugar-coated foils". The lu suffix (poothareku lu) is added to denote the plural form of Poothareku.
