Ingredients

• 10 slices - bread
• 2 cups - milk
• 15 - pistachios
• Ghee for shallow frying
• For the syrup:
• 15 strands - saffron
• 7 - green cardamoms, peeled and powdered
• 2.5 cups - water

How to Make Sweet Bread

• Boil the pistachios in one cup water for 5 minutes.
• Cool, peel and finely slice them. Keep aside.
• Pour the milk in a flat dish or a thali.
• Soak one slice of bread at a time.
• Lightly heat 3 tbsp ghee in a non-stick kadai. Fry each bread (soaked in milk) on a medium flame till golden on both sides, flipping the sides of the bread gently.
• Repeat with the remaining slices of bread.
• For the syrup:
• Boil the water with the sugar.
• After 5 minutes, add the saffron and cardamom powder.
• Boil for another 20 minutes till you get one thread consistency of the syrup.
• Soak each fried slice of bread in the hot syrup for few minutes.
• Garnish with pistachios and serve.