Shahi tukda. Shahi tukda is much similar to the hyderabadi double ka meeta. Traditionally shahi tukda is made by deep frying bread pieces in ghee until golden and crisp. Then they are dipped in sugar syrup.
I had a recipe in my handwritten cookbook(written and given by my mom 🙂).
Shahi tukda is one of the most popular Indian desserts.
True to its name it is a 'shahi' delight!
You can have Shahi tukda using 7 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Shahi tukda
- You need 500 ml of Milk.
- It's 1/2 cup of Sugar.
- You need 2 of Bread slices.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Cardmom powder.
- It's 109 gm of Ghee.
- You need 1/3 cup of Dry nuts chopped.
- Prepare 15 of Saffron threads.
Pieces of bread are dipped in delicious saffron flavoured sugar syrup and topped with rich and creamy rabdi. Shahi Tukda is a simple yet delicious recipe, which makes for a delightful treat for sweet lovers. Here's a simple recipe to make this traditional Shahi Tukda recipe at home. Shahi Tukda recipe is a rich dessert dish from heaven of India Kashmir.
Shahi tukda step by step
- Turn on the flame & heat the pan add milk,saffron.
- Increase the flame to high and let the milk boil once the milk starts boiling,reduce the flame to low boil milk till it had reduced to half of it's original quantity..
- Keep stirring,add sugar 1/4 cup add dry nuts & keep stirring add keep stirring.
- Add cardmon powder mix it well keep stirring till it becomes thick.
- Turn off the flame once the desired consistency is achieved.
- Turn on the flame & add ghee in a pan put bread slices in hot ghee.
- Fry it till it turnes crispy deep fry the breads to make it crispy.
- Fry it till it becomes light golden brown.take it out and keep it aside.
- Fry the remaining slices like this.
- Heat a pan and add sugar add 1/4 cup of water and let it boil keep stirring.
- Cook the syrup for 2 mintues on low flame turn of the flame.
- Add fried bread slices in the sugar syrup.
- Flip the slices to alkow bread to absord the sugar syrup proparly pour the rabdi on a serving plate.
- Place 2 bread slices over it add one more layer of rabdi and one bread slice on top garish it with finely chopped dry nuts.
- Ready to serve.
It is a royal dessert as its name "Shahi For shahi tukda recipe you can use multigrain bread or brown bread or milk bread, though. First boil the milk in a heavy bottomed pan. One bite of Shahi Tukda and you will be amazed at how a simple loaf of bread can be turned into such an exquisite dessert. This simple yet delicious dessert is prepared with a simpler Shahi Tukray recipe. Shahi Tukda is a popular, delicious and simple sweet dish made using bread, milk and nuts.
