Konchem Theepi
Poets go lyrical over it, calling it as wholesome as a buxom belle...Connoisseurs of cuisine certified it as a delicacy par excellence...The general public-who do not have facility of a florid speech, just drool over it....Bandar laddu is it"s name ..renowned all over Andhra Pradesh and by the way, even across all over India,since,which place is left uninhabited by telugu speaking people?...Synonymous with Bandar, the town, it makes you wonder which one compliments which one?..The town or the laddu?.. Now....you may ask why all this hullabaloo for a laddu?...After all a laddu is a common enough sweet across the lenghth and breadth of India...yes...In north we have besan laddus, in south boondi laddu and some other varieties...An authentic bandar laddu is called a thokkudu laddu----means, the pounded laddu---made with jaggery,which differentiates it fron the usual boondi laddu that is made with sugar....Sort of murukulu are made with besan flour, fried deeply, pounded then into som