How to Make Shahi Tukre (Bread Based Sweet)
This delicious dessert can be made very quickly and tastes quite exotic.
[edit] Ingredients
- 8 bread slices (preferably white bread)
- 12 tbsp condensed milk
- 1 litre milk
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- Ghee (Clarified Butter)
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 30 gm each almonds, pistas, walnut, cashew nuts and raisins
[edit] Steps
- Trim the edges of the bread slices and cut them into four pieces.
- Heat ghee for frying in a wok. Deep fry the bread pieces in ghee to a golden brown color.
- Separately, fry all the nuts in ghee and pound coarsely.
- Boil the milk in an open pan and add in condensed milk, sugar, cardamom and nutmeg on low flame.
- When the mixture thickens put the fried bread slices side by side in the pan.
- Let it cook till the bread absorbs all the moisture. Serve cold garnished with nuts, raisins and silver barak.
[edit] Tips
- You can serve this with icecream or khubani ka meetha also.
- Place the bread pieces after frying over some tissue, so the exceess ghee is soaked out.
- If you want to cut down on most of the fat, you can even toast the bread on a pan, but it will be soggy and will not taste as good.
[edit] Warnings
- Hot ghee is exactly that very very very very hot, be very careful when you are handling it.
