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My today's recipe is a desert known as Shahi Tukda
So “Shahi” is basically a Persian word which means something
Royal and “Tukra” is a piece.
So basically this is a kind of Royal piece desert.
So let's look into the ingredient list.
Now.
My first ingredient is white bread and today I am
I'm using 8 slices of white bread and we need
desi ghee or clarified butter for frying the bread
pieces. To prepare the Rabdi for the Shahi Tukda,
We need around 800 ml of milk.
I'm using full fat milk and along with it.
We need 1/2 cup of milk powder, saffron strands for
flavoring, 1 teaspoon of Kewra water for flavoring again, but
this is
completely optional, some chopped nuts for garnishing and one teaspoon
of corn flour, which I'm going to mix with some
water before adding it to the milk.
And this is the sugar syrup which I have already
prepared using 2 cups of water and 2 cups of
sugar with a little bit of saffron strands and this
is the consistency we need in our sugar syrup not
too thick and it is neither very sticky, but it
has some stickiness to it.
So
let's start preparing. To start off.
We need to cut the sides of the white bread.
You definitely need only white bread for this.
You can't make it with a whole wheat or a
or a multigrain bread.
And in this way, we will cut the sides of
all our bread pieces or slices as you can see.
I have cut all the pieces and here are my
leftover bread.
sides, you don't need to throw this what you can
do is you can pop them in the microwave oven
and cook it for 3-4 minutes and then and then
make some bread crumbs out of it.
Now coming back to the bread.
I am going to cut them in triangle shapes, either
you can cut them in triangle shapes or you can
also cut them in rectangular shapes from here.
It's up to you.
But today I'll go in for triangular shapes.
Maybe I'll cut two or three in rectangles also,
just to show you.
Before starting to fry our bread pieces.
What I'll do is I'll put the milk to come
to a boil.
And next I will add in clarified butter.
Okay, you need quite an amount to fry them.
But definitely if you fry them in oil you won't
get the taste.
So we'll let the butter melt, butter or ghee melt
keep your flame on medium to low and then I'll
add in the bread pieces.
Stir the milk also continuously so that it doesn't burn from
the bottom.
Remember to keep your flame on low,
otherwise the bread might get burnt and you can see
how beautiful golden color I'm getting and now I'm going
to flip
and cook them on the other side. As you can
see,
It is cooked from both side nice and brown in
color.
I'm going to remove
And continue with the rest.
Actually, as you can see it's a little bit
whitish in the middle.
So I will just turn them one more time and
cook them. This also needs a little bit more time.
As you can see my milk has come to a
boil.
What I'll do is I'll take two tablespoons of
the milk in a bowl 2 to 3 tbsp as
required and then I'll mix my milk powder into it.
The milk powder is well dissolved with the milk.
And now I am going to add it to the
boiling milk.
What this will do is it'll thicken our milk pretty
quick and you don't need to reduce it for so
long hours this point only I'll add a few strands
of saffron into my milk.
And keep on stirring for another 10 to 15 minutes.
It's been 10 minutes now and as you can see
the milk has reduced almost half of its quantity at
this point.
I'm going to add in the corn flour mixed with
water.
Little at a time stirring continuously.
This will immediately thicken our milk mixture.
You need to stir continuously after adding it so that
no lumps are formed. As you can see the mixture
is nice and thick at this point just before switching
off the gas.
I'm going to add in the Kewra water.
Give it a good mix.
This will thicken a bit more once it cools down.
So we'll
switch of the gas now and start assembling our
Shahi Tukra’s.
So we'll start assembling the Shahi Tukra, for that
what I'll do is I'll dip my fried breads into
the sugar syrup take it out and place in a
serving dish.
So this is the first layer I have made now.
I'll make another layer at least you should form two
to three layers of bread along with the sugar syrup.
So I have placed all my bread pieces after dipping
them in the sugar syrup and I'm going to add
in some sugar syrup on top.
And finally, I'll add in the Rabdi(milk mixture).
After adding in the Rabdi, I'll add in a few
strands of saffron on top for garnishing along with the
chopped nuts.
And our Shahi Tukra is ready, but you need
to let it sit for at least three to four
hours before serving that way it will cool down also
and if you want you can refrigerate it for 2
hours also.
My Shahi Tukra is ready.
This dessert is served in different ways in different parts
of India. And friends
this was my take on this desert.
Hope you’ll liked it and I'm sure
you're going to enjoy
And on that note,
let's end the video here.
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