Shahi bread kheer
A delicious sweet dish
Recipe by aparna of
This sweet dish can be easily prepared using ingredients which are readily available at home especially when you have to make something hurriedly for your guests coming in.
Ingredients
vegetarian
8 servings
- 1 ltr Fresh Milk
- 4-5 Bread Slices
- 1 tin Condensed Milk (Cardamom flavour-optional)
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1 pinch Saffron (dissolved in 1 tsp hot water)
- 8-10 Roasted Pistachios (sliced thin vertically)
- 5 pieces Almonds (Badam, sliced thin vertically)
Directions
- Boil Milk. To this add sugar & Condensed Milk (Note : If cardamom flavour is not available , ground 2 cardamom & add this to milk. Please discard its shell/skin.)
- Add saffron. Let the milk thicken a bit.
- Now add the sliced nuts (pistachios and almonds), cook for 2 minutes & leave it aside to attain room temperature.
- Meanwhile roast the bread slices on a tava by applying little ghee evenly on both the surfaces of the bread till it turns crispy, taking care not to brown them.
- Discard the crusts of the bread slices. Now cut these bread slices neatly into cubes (1cm/1cm) & add these to the milk after the latter has reached its room temperature.
- Refrigerate for 2 hrs. The delicious shahi bread kheer is ready.