Shahi Tukda

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5 from 3 votes

This is a quick and easy recipe for your sweet tooth that tastes heavenly, can be served warm or cold.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian, Pakistani

Keyword shahi tukda

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Total Time 50

Servings servings

Calories 332kcal

Author Mariam Sodawater

Ingredients

4 cup milk
¾ cup sugar or to taste
1 cup milk powder
½ teaspoon cardamom seed removed and crushed.
1 pinch saffron (substitute saffron with more ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder and a pinch of yellow food color)
4 large slices of bread , preferably slightly stale.
oil or ghee to shallow fry
pistachio and almonds for garnish

Instructions

Heat 3 and ½ cup milk in a wide pan. Add sugar, cardamom, saffron and milk powder.
Fry the bread in oil or ghee on low flame until crispy golden.
Dry excess oil on kitchen towel. Place fried bread on a dish.
Cook milk syrup for 30 minutes until thick and deep yellow.
Pour thick yellow milk syrup(running consistency) on bread and bake on 350 F for 7-10 minutes, until bread puffs up and syrup boils. (You can also heat in microwave until bubbling hot, about two minutes.)
Garnish with roasted pistachios and almonds.

Notes

Method 1( For shahi tukray in pan): Put fried breads in yellow milk syrup and simmer for 10 minutes on very low heat until milk thickens and bread soaks the syrup. Shahi tukray is ready to serve.

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