You are a lover of hot and spicy foods, then you should definitely visit the land of spice food, a state of India, Andhra, and Telangana. Yes, the Nizams of Hyderabad loved spicer foods leading to the name. Starting from the biryani to pickles, the people eat all types of spicy food and they'll get enough of it.
Not only these foods make you drool but also make you cry of spiciness. Even though people of this state crave hot and spicy foods, they also have a sweet tooth. The famous foods they talk about every day are:
1) Pesarattu
2) Bendakaya fry(Lady's Finger fry)
3)Chappa Pulusu( Fish Sambar)
4) Hyderabad Biryani
5) Gutti Vankaya Koora ( Eggplant Curry) and so much more.
Everyone talks about spice foods when it comes to Andhra, Let me tell you the sweets originated here. Out of all the sweets, I found the origin of this special sweet of Andhra," Pootharekulu" to be interesting.
This sweet "Pootharekulu" was found and made by the washermen of Atreyapuram, Godavari, Andhra.
During the days of Monarchy, the rich people, landlords, and kings used to give their clothes to washermen aka chakkalivallu to wash it. For washing, these people used to carry the pots filled with starch. After washing the clothes, they'll dry it partially and apply this starch for stiffness. The pots that were broken were kept below the clothes so that the clothes don't get dirty, even if they fall.
The excessive starch in the washed cloth starts dripping on the pot base which is in concave form
and forms a thin layer on drying. The washermen and women were so poor that they take this starch and eat it with salt or sugar, to their will.
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Later this food became famous and those dhobis started making it on a cottage industry level. Mostly this starch is coated with sweet and it is not easy to make this food item. In Telugu, the word 'Pootha' means coating and 'Rekulu' means sheet and together they named it 'Pootharekulu' as it looks like a paper.
There's another sweet delicacy known as Kakinada Kaaja, a 128-year-old one at that. The credit of making this sweet goes to Chettipedi Kotaiah who migrated from Guntur to Kakinada in 1891. He started a small sweet shop there and made this sweet and even still the shop's selling the tastiest and cleanest of the sweets.
If you try spice foods in Andhra, don't forget to check these sweets also.
-S.Varshini
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