Another Lucknawi dish- Shahi Toast or Shahi Tukda.

Hi Friends,

It has been a long time since we cooked some sweet dish and without a sweet dish, meal is incomplete so today I am going to share the recipe of a famous Lucknawi dish called Shahi Toast or Shahi Tukda.

SHAHI TOAST/TUKDA:

INGREDIENTS:

White bread

Oil 

Cheeni (Sugar)

Kesar (Saffron)

Badam (Almonds)

Pista (Pistachio)

Rabdi (Thickened milk)

Silver foil

METHOD:

Discard the hard edges of bread and cut them diagonally into triangular pieces. Deep fry bread pieces to golden brown and drain on tissue paper to remove excess oil.

Make chashni (sugar syrup) using sugar,and water in equal quantities. The consistency of chashni should be of double thread- for this take a drop on your thumb and with the help of index finger lift it- if you get 2 threads of chashni, great, if not, give it few more boils to get double thread consistency.Add  saffon during last few boils of chashni.

Soak the golden brown bread pieces in chashni for ten minutes- take out on serving platter and decorate with rabdi (thickened milk) and shavings of pista , badam and silver foil. 

Serve it hot or cold. 

TIP:

To make it more attractive, you can decorate it with  some Rose petals too but they are not a must.

Happy cooking...