Topic started by AK (@ 132.235.18.99) on Sat Mar 27 20:43:50 EST 2004.
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does anyone know what 'pootareku' is made out of?
it is a sweet that has small, thin sheets of sugar and ghee. i believe it is available only in small towns of andhra

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• From: jaya (@ acaa8f59.ipt.aol.com) on: Wed Mar 31 15:35:32 EST 2004
  
  pootareku is made from rice. But it is lengthy process to prepare that if u can get ready made poothareku u can prepare it by adding sugar and gee.
  If u r really intrsted to know the method even it is lengthy here it is.....
  soke rice in water for 4 to 5 hour they grind it to smooth paste ( make sure paste should be in form of liquid just like dosa mixture).take a pot turn upside down keep fire below the pot and now take a cotton cloth and immerese that in rice paste which u have prepared then spraed that cloth on pot that is upside down with fire at its bottom then remove the cloth.then u can obsern some flour paste attached to pot after some time that flour paste will get heated up due to fire and will come out just like paper. Repeat the process until u get enough number of putharekus then wet the reku with wet cloth and spread gee over it sprinkle suger powder on that and fold it.hope u got ur Puthareku.
  In India we can get ready made reku and we can directly prepare puthareku by adding sugar and gee but i dont know wheather u can get ready made r not.
  
  
• From: AK (@ 132.235.18.99) on: Wed Mar 31 19:25:06 EST 2004
  
  thank u jaya, i have a good idea now, of how pootareku is made from rice,,
  AK
  
  

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