SHAHI TUKDA | SHAHI TUKRA

Shahi Tukda





Recipe source: Rakskitchen, you can find the original recipe here.
Ingredients
  1. Saffron- 1 pinch
  2. Milk- 1/2 ltr
  3. Corn flour- 1 tsp
  4. Cardamom powder- 1/8 tsp
  5. Sugar- 1/3 cup
  6. Bread- 4 slices
  7. Ghee- For frying
  8. Nuts-chopped- 2 tbsp
Directions
  • Soak saffron in 3 tbsp warm milk.Keep aside.
  • To prepare Rabri,bring  milk to a boil, in a saucepan.Add saffron and cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp milk.Mix well and cook until it turns slightly thick.Add cardamom powder ,mix well and keep aside.
  • To prepare sugar syrup,combine sugar with few tbsp of water and cook until it turns thick.
  • Cut the bread into triangular pieces.Shallow fry / deep fry it in ghee,until it turns golden brown.
  • Fry the nuts in the same pan ,drain and keep aside.
  • Soak the bread pieces in the prepared sugar syrup for a minute, and transfer it onto the serving bowl/plate.
  • Pour the prepared rabri over the bread pieces.Serve warm or chilled.
    Notes
    • Add few drops of rose essence to the rabri,if desired.
    • If you don't want to use cornflour,reduce a liter of milk to half,by cooking over a medium low flame.
    • You can add 1 or 2 tbsp of the remaining sugar syrup to the rabri ,if desired.