Ingredients

• 4 pieces - bread
• 1/2 litre - milk
• 1/3 cup - sugar
• Ghee or oil, for deep frying
• 2 tbsp - chopped nuts
• 1 tsp - corn flour
• Saffron - a pinch
• 2 to 3 drops - rose essence

How to Make Shahi Tukda

• Boil milk and add saffron soaked in 3 tbsps of warm milk. Add the corn flour mixed in 2-3 tbsp of milk to it and simmer the milk until it reduces to a thick but pouring consistency. This is called rabri.
• Add rose essence in the end.
• Add the chopped nuts at this stage.
• Remove the crust of the bread and cut diagonally.
• Fry the bread pieces till golden brown and crisp evenly.
• Prepare a thick sugar syrup by boiling the sugar with little water just enough to immerse the sugar.
• Soak the bread pieces as you fry them, just for a minute or until you take the next batch.
• Arrange the soaked pieces on a plate.
• Fry the chopped nuts in ghee and add it over the bread pieces (if you have not done that in the first step).
• Pour the rabri over the arranged bread.
• Serve chilled or warm.
• But make sure you give some time for the bread to absorb the rabri.
• Recipe courtesy: Rak's Kitchen