Double Ka Meetha:(Hyderabadi dessert)

Shahi Tukda or Shahi Tukre. Double Ka Meeta. Rich Bread Halwa.

Its one of the rich dessert, heavy in cream and ghee. Its kind of traditional Mughal dessert in Hyderabad. It is generally served after a heavy Mughal biriyani. Its delicious and very easy to make.

Ingredients:

White Bread slices 8- each made into 4 pieces
Whole milk 1 cup
Fresh cream 1 cup
Butter/Ghee 1 cup
Cashewnuts 1/4 cup splitted
Almonds sliced lengthwise
Raisins
Sugar 1 cup
Saffron
Cardamon seeds powder 1/2 spoon.

Variation: One can still use brown/wheat bread instead of white.

Method:

In a wide pan, heat ghee. When it is hot enough….fry bread slices till golden color. Then leave them over kitchen tissues for a while and reserve in a wide tray.

Fry cashewnuts and almonds in butter/ghee…..till golden color. Then spread them over our reserved fried bread.

Heat sugar with 1/2 cup of water. When it comes to syrupy stage add milk and cardamon seeds powder. Boil for some more time. Or until it reduces into half. Run this sugary-milk over the bread tray. Let the bread slices get really well soaked in it. Refridgerate them for atleast 2 hours or so.

After 2 hours….further add cold fresh cream and serve in a small plate/bowl.

Since it has double cream…..its called ‘Double ka Meetha’.