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Shahi Tukda – 7th Blog Birthday

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Shahi Tukda ~ Diwali Sweets

Shahi Tukda

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My blog birthday calls for celebration and with Diwali around the corner, I am posting Shahi Tukda so that you can make it as part of your Diwali sweets platter. Whenever I have any left over bread, I tend to make garlic croutons, bread crumbs or bread upma. If my family is in a mood for a dessert, I make Bread Halwa which can be prepared in less than 30 minutes.

shahi tukda recipe
Shahi Tukra ~ Diwali Special

Shahi Tukda, is a rich Hyderabadi dessert recipe that is prepared using bread. The authentic version of Shahi Tukda, calls for use of full fat milk and deep frying the bread in ghee (clarified butter) till a deep golden brown shade is achieved. I did not deep fry the bread slices (hence lighter colored bread) and chose to toast it on a pan drizzled with a generous amount of ghee. I have used low fat milk and hence you will not find a rabri (thickened milk) like consistency. It tastes as good as the deep fried version, due to the cardamom and saffron infused thickened milk that is poured over the toasted bread and garnished with toasted dried fruit and nuts. So are you going to make Shahi Tukda this Diwali? 🙂

Shahi Tukda – 7th Blog Birthday

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 Ingredients

  •   Bread slices 6, large (remove crust and cut each slice into triangles)
  •   Sugar 1/2 cup
  •   Milk 1 1/2 liter
  •   Water 1 1/4 cup
  •   Cashew nuts fistful, break into small pieces
  •   Kismis fistful
  •   Pistachios fistful, lightly crushed
  •   Almonds fistful, finely sliced
  •   Saffron 4-5 strands (kumkum puvvu/kesar), soaked in 2 tbsps of milk
  •   Ghee 2 tbsps

Method for making Shahi Tukda – 7th Blog Birthday

  1. Place milk in a thick bottomed stainless steel vessel and bring to a boil. Reduce flame and allow it to reduce to half its original quantity. Add saffron milk and mix. Turn off heat and bring to room temperature. Add 4 tbsps of the prepared sugar syrup (process to prepare sugar syrup in Step 2) and mix. Chill till serving time.

  2. In another bowl, place sugar and water. On low to medium flame, let the sugar dissolve completely. Once it dissolves completely, allow to cook for 4 minutes. Turn off heat. Keep aside.

  3. Heat a non-stick pan and drizzle a tsp of ghee over it. Add dried fruits and nuts and toast for a minute till brown. Remove onto a bowl.

  4. Drizzle 2-3 tsps of ghee in the same pan and place 3-4 triangles. Toast the bread to a golden shade on both sides. Remove and place on a plate.

  5. Drizzle the remaining ghee, and toast the remaining bread triangles to a golden brown shade.

  6. Dip each toasted triangle in the sugar syrup to coat both the sides and remove onto a serving dish.

  7. At the time of serving, pour the chilled saffron flavored thickened milk over the bread slices, garnish with toasted nuts and kismis and serve.

Tips

  •   Alternately, you can deep fry the bread triangles and place on absorbent paper and follow rest of the procedure.
  •   The authentic Shahi Tukda recipe calls for the use of full fat milk and heat the milk to reduce it to more than half its original quantity. It should have a rabri like consistency.
By Published: Shahi Tukda, a simple sweet recipe for my blog birthday. As part of your Diwali sweets platter, learn how to make Shahi Tukda aka Shahi Toast or Sahi Tukra.