What is shahi tukda ?
Shahi tukda or double ka meetha is one of the easiest desserts. Shahi means royal and bread tukda means piece of bread. You just need to fry loaves ,dip it into the sugar syrup and garnish with sweet rabri and nuts.It was supposedly developed in Indian subcontinent in Mughal times.this combination of bread rabri & sugar syrup makes it amazing
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 marmalade or strawberry preserve or just with 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
The ingredients required for this recipe include
- Fried bread
- Sugar syrup with saffron
- Rabri (reduced milk) or condensed milk
- Nuts
How to make shahi tukda ?
- Just fry the bread in ghee and 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. Let it cool completely before you use it.
- Dip the fried bread in sugar syrup from both sides. Serve it on a plate.
- Cover it with a generous layer of rabdi.Garnish it with chopped nuts, rose petals
How to make shahi toast in air fryer?
- We have used brown bread instead of white for air fryer, as it gets a golden crisp color and texture which we felt was better than white bread. Remaining ingredients are the same.
- Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 180 deg c. Place the bread slices
- Cook for 10 mins at 180 deg C for 10 mins. 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.
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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 oven for 10 mins at 180 deg c. Place the bread slices.
- Cook for 10 mins at 180 deg C for 10 mins. 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. 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. You can pour condensed milk over fried tukda, just before serving, if you do not have time to make rabri.
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.
Storage
For best results, store the bread, rabdi and sugar syrup separately in refrigerator as the dish might become very soggy. We did eat air fryer one after 2 days after storing in refrigerator and it still tastes good.
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