Shahi Tukda

Ingredients –

Whole milk – ½ liter

Milk powder – 2 tbs

Bread – 6 - 7 slices

Saffron – pinch

Grated almonds and pistachio

Sugar – 100 grams

Elachi (Cardamom powder) – ½ tbs

Ghee for shallow frying

Preparation –

Making Rabadi –

1. Boil milk till it reaches ¼ th of its quantity in a thick bottomed or a non-stick pan on medium flame. Add 2 tbs of milk powder while boiling so that it fastens the process of condensing the milk.
2. Once it reaches ½ the quantity, add half of cardamom powder and saffron.
3. Keep stirring this mixture till it becomes thick. Make sure this mixture doesn’t get sedimented on the sides and in the bottom. This process might take about 45 min.
4. Now remove from stove and leave it cool at room temperature. It will thicken a little more while cooling.
   

Making bread –

1. Trim the bread edges and slice the bread in to 2 halves.
2. Now, shallow fry these bread slices in ghee till it becomes crisp and turns golden brown.
   

Making sugar syrup –

1. Mix water and sugar in ½:1 respectively and heat this mixture on a medium flame till it reaches one thread consistency. Add half of the cardamom powder while boiling. 

Arranging Shahi Tukda –

1. Dip the fried bread slices in the sugar syrup and take it out.
2. Take a plate and arrange syrup coated bread slices and spread Rabadi on the slices.