Mother's Day Treat ! A ROYAL INDIAN DESSERT - SHAHI TUKDA !

Although here in UK mother's day was on 3rd of April..that time I was in India at my mother's place..sadly my mum wasn't there for me..:( ,and I was away from my kids...so we are celebrating today and having great day so far....my daughter specially thought about my gift very carefully..before I went to India I was mentioning to update my electric toothbrush, and she kept that in her mind and guess what..............:) yeppppppppppp !!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH MY DARLINGS...hubby treated me with yummy lunch...



In return I wanted to treat my special ones, so I thought of making something easy to make yet royal ( since we had a royal wedding in UK ) made for all occasion...A ROYAL INDIAN DESSERT... SHAHI TUKDA.....  The traditional sweet has its genesis from Hyderabad where fried bread slices are soaked in warm milk with cardamom, saffron and sugar for enriched flavor and garnished with nuts..It is served with a plain pudding called 'Rabri' made by milk thickened over low heat enriched with Almond meal.I made  cashew nuts, Raisins and Cardamom bread at home and used slices from that bread..one thing is for sure that this dessert will enlighten your senses....:)..Surely mine did;)













Ingredients:- for Bread

water 11/8 cup
Skimmed milk powder 2 1/2 tbsp
Sugar 1/4 cup
Salt 11/4 tsp
Oil 21/2 tbsp
Strong white flour 3 cups
Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp
Dry yeast 11/4 tsp
Raisins and cashew nuts 1/2 cup
Method :- I used my bread maker..







Ingrdients for Shahi Tukda :-

Bread slices - 4 ( I used my own home made bread )
Ghee - 3 tbsp
Milk - 2 cups
Double Cream - 2 cups
Sugar - 75 grams
cardamom powder
Saffron threads
Few nuts like almonds and pistachio
Method:-

Remove the crust from the bread and cut them in to your desired shape..I cut them into triangle shape. Heat ghee in a non stick pan and shallow fry them till lovely golden colour.  Remove them and leave them a side.  In another non stick pan boil milk till become thick..add cream and sugar and let it boil for 8-10 minutes. Then add cardamom powder and saffron and leave it for few minutes. In a serving dish place fried bread slices and pour thickened milk and garnish with nuts..Chill in refrigerator for about half an hour and enjoy as much as we did...and promised each other that we will burn lots of calories on our exercise machines which are collecting dust ;)...I have five of them :)



Till my next post happy cooking and blogging..enjoy this beautiful song from the movie Jagriti...