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.