Shahi Tukda (Indian bread pudding)

Name: Shahi Tukda (Indian bread pudding)
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 6 bread slices; 3/4 cup ghee for frying; 1/3 cup sugar; 1/2 cup water; 1/2 tsp cardamom powder; 3 1/2 cup milk for rabdi; 4 tbsp sugar; 1 pinch saffron; 4 tbsp nuts for garnish

Nandinee Parag Jambhulkar @cook_22389136

Shahi tukda is a rich dessert made with bread ghee sugar milk and nuts. Shahi tukda is a Mughalai dessert. Traditionally shahi tukda is made by deep frying bread pieces in ghee until golden brown and crisp. Then they are dipped in sugary syrup and a generous amount of thickened creamy saffron milk known as Rabri is poured over them and topped with nuts.

Nandinee Parag Jambhulkar @cook_22389136

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Ingredients

6bread slices
3/4 cupghee for frying
1/3 cupsugar
1/2 cupwater
1/2 tspcardamom powder
3 1/2 cupmilk for rabdi
4 tbspsugar
1 pinchsaffron
4 tbspnuts for garnish

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Steps

1

Remove the brown edges and cut the bread diagonally each slice into two.Heat ghee in a low flame and deep fry the bread evenly till it turn golden and crispy.
2

Mix sugar and water. Boil and bring to a one string consistency. Switch off the flame.
3

Take 3 1/2 cup milk in a wide pan. Bring milk to a boil. Add sugar and saffron.Reduce the flame to a medium flame and continue boiling until the milk reduces to half. Rabdi is ready.
4

Now immerse the fried bread tukda slices in a sugar syrup one after the other and place them in a serving plate.
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Now pour generous amount of Rabdi over the bread slices and garnish with pista and chopped nuts. Serve shahi tukda warm or chilled