SHAHI TUKDA(DOUBLE KA MEETHA)

 In my older posts’ I have posted the Low fat double ka meetha recipe. Although it is the recipe which I make often, I cannot resist myself from making the mouth watering Shahi tukda, the traditional way, now and then. It is a rich dish with all the ghee, nuts, rabdi etc,  simple to make. One should eat this lavish Hyderabadi delicacy  at least once. Give it a sure try.
INGREDIENTS

• Bread slices                7-8
• Milk                             4 cups
• Sugar                          1+1/2 cup
• Dry fruits                    a hand full
• Ghee                             to deep fry the bread pieces
• Cardamom powder   1 tsp.

PROCEDURE

Make a sugar syrup with a cup of sugar and half cup of water. The syrup should be same as the gulab jamoon syrup.
Keep it aside.
Boil the milk and reduce it to half. 
Remove the cream(meegada in Telugu) layer from time to time and set it aside.
After reducing the milk to half the quantity, add the sugar and cream layers(meegada).
Keep on mixing and reduce the rabdi till it becomes thick.
Heat the ghee in a pan(no oil please!!).
Fry the dry fruits, remove them onto a tissue paper and when the excess ghee is removed, mix them with the rabdi. Add the cardamom powder too.
Cool the rabdi, if possible chill it for an hour.
Now cut the bread slices into required shape  and deep fry them( 2 or 3 at a time) in the ghee till they turn crisp and brown.
Dip them for a few seconds( not minutes, otherwise they’ll become soggy) in the sugar syrup and place them on the serving platter.
Pour the rabdi on the pieces and serve the royal dessert.