SHAHI TUKDA

Shahi tukda is a rich, royal Mughlai dessert of fried sugar syrup coated with fried bread pieces topped and soaked with fragrant creamy sweet thickened milk or rabri and garnished with dry fruits. We often order this on dessert when we go for a dinner outing. Here is the recipe that you can easily make at home.

Ingredients:

1. Sugar - 2 tsp
2. Water - 1 cup
3. Milk - 2 cup
4. Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup
5. Ghee - for frying
6. Mixed dry fruits - 2 tsp
7. Bread -  6 slices
8. Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Process:

1. Boil milk adding condensed milk and sugar stirring constantly until thick, add cardamom powder and dry fruits. Once the rabri is ready, keep aside and let it cool.
2. In a separate pan make sugar syrup by boiling a cup of water and sugar together. Strain and keep aside.
3. Cut bread slices into two and deep fry in ghee till golden brown. Immediately put the fried bread into sugar syrup, dip for a fraction of a minute, so that the tukdas remain crisp.
4. Remove from syrup and place them in a serving dish. Top each piece of prepared bread with the rabri you have already prepared. Garnish with chopped dry fruits.

Note : I have made very thick rabri as the bread pieces are already crisp and full of sugar syrup. You can make rabri as per your choice.