What is shahi tukda ?
Bread ka shahi tukda or double ka meetha is one of the easy recipes you can make when lot of people are coming home. Shahi means royal and bread tukda means piece of bread. You just need to fry loaves and dip it into the sugar syrup.Garnish with sweet rabri and nuts.It was supposedly developed in Indian subcontinent in Mughal reign.This combination of bread rabri & sugar syrup makes it a delicious dessert , perfect for special occasions.
This shahi toast is a royal dessert and easy one too surprisingly. You can make it every time you have some loaves or rabdi left over. It is delectable and super yum. One of the desserts which combine both the crispness of fried double roti and the mushy creamy rabri. Perfect to end the meal after a good spicy jackfruit biryani.I love sweet breads be it with some mango chutney, marmalade or strawberry preserve. Sometimes I just enjoy eating bread soak with just some ghee or cream and a sprinkle of sugar.
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Nostalgia
My mom makes amazing Shahi tukra.It is a very easy dish when you got guests coming. Bread was always at home growing up.She was a working mum and always had to be on her toes. Yet,she was always up to make desserts no matter how busy.Every festival deserved a treat so that we learn it to.Now as a mum myself I wonder how much work she did without complaining and with so much perfection.This is her recipe served with the same love and perfection.
Ingredients
Shahi tukda ingredients include
- Fried bread (great way of using whole grain dry bread as it is stiff and holds good under rabri)
- Sugar syrup with saffron
- Rabri (sweet made with reduced milk) or condensed milk (cheat's option)
- Chopped dry fruits( You may omit nuts and garnish with some edible rose petals and silver foil warq, if allergic)
- refer to recipe card for exact details.
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How to make shahi tukda ? (traditional method)
- Make bread triangles by cutting it diagonally. Heat ghee and just shallow fry the bread on a medium flame or by deep frying it in a heavy bottom pan. Keep it aside with other ingredients.
- Boil the water with sugar and add some saffron strands to it. Saffron gives it an amazing color and flavor. Ensure sugar dissolves totally to make a ek taar chashni (single thread consistency). Let it cool completely before you use it. You may add rose water and green cardamom powder if you do not have saffron.
- Dip the fried bread in sugar syrup from both sides. Place it on a serving plate.
- Cover fried bread slices with a generous layer of thick rabdi. Garnish shahi tudka with generous amount of chopped nuts, rose petals.
How to make shahi toast in air fryer?
- We have used brown bread or whole wheat bread instead of white for air fry toast, as it gets a golden crisp color and texture which we felt was better than white bread. Remaining ingredients are the same for shahi tukray.
- Preheat the air fryer for 5 mins at 180 deg c. Place the bread slices in a single layer.
- Cook for 10 mins at 180 deg C. Oil spray 3 times, until it is golden crisp on both sides.
- Let it cool. ekdum sahi toast! Perfect toasted bread
- Apply the sugar syrup with a brush once done. This ensures you also eat lesser calories than eating something deep fried and dipped in sugar syrup.
- Layer rabdi and garnish with nuts on top. Serve immediately.
Shahi tukda dessert recipe
Equipment
- kadai or frying pan
- sauce pan for making rabdi
Ingredients
- 1 cup rabri or condensed milk
- 4 slices bread brown bread
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- 4-6 strands saffron
- Oil or ghee for frying
- 1 tbsp. pistachios & almonds finely chopped or sliced, few dried rose leaves optionally
Instructions
- Heat sugar,water and saffron strands until sugar has dissolved,turn off the heat and allow to cool.
Traditional frying method
- Heat oil or ghee. Fry pieces of bread on medium heat until golden brown.
- Dip bread pieces in cooled sugar syrup and keep it aside.
Air fryer method
- Preheat the air fryer for 5 mins at 180 deg c. Place the bread slices.
- Cook for 10 mins at 180 deg C | . Oil spray 3 times, until it is golden crisp on both sides. Let it cool
- Apply the sugar syrup with a brush once done. This ensures you also eat lesser calories than eating something deep fried and dipped in sugar syrup.
- Garnish with rabdi and nuts when you want to eat it immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Substitution
If you do not have rabdi ready, you can also prepare shahi tukda with condensed milk on the fried bread for instant version of this mughlai dessert. Serving shahi toast with condensed milk gives you similar taste. However, the output is not as delicious as the original version. It is a quick fix but an excellent dessert nevertheless. You can pour condensed milk over fried tukda, just before serving, if you do not have time to make rabri. You can also use left over gulab jamun sugar syrup with rose essence or rose water to make this recipe.
Storage
For best results, store the bread, rabdi and sugar syrup separately in refrigerator as the dish might become very soggy after sometime. We did eat air fryer one after 2 days after storing in refrigerator and it still tastes good.
FAQs
Boil full fat milk and add powdered sugar to it. Reduce it to half on a low flame.
Bread is generally referred to as double roti in Hindi, as it is a bread which swells up to double after baking. Meetha means sweet. As it is a sweet made with bread it is called as double ka meetha in Hyderabad.
Serve the bread immediately after putting rabri on it else it will get soggy.
Conclusion: shahi tukra recipe is one of the best recipes where you can transform a slices of bread into a beautiful Indian dessert. This royal piece of dessert brings a smile to every sweet lover.
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