It is a cousin of Shahi Tukda from Pakistani cuisine, Very similar in taste and recipe.
Double ka meetha is a bread pudding made of fried bread and various dry fruits soaked in milk.
Ingredients :
- Bread - 4-5 slices
- Cashewnuts - few
- Raisins - few
- Almonds - few
- Pistachios - few
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
- Milk - 1 1/2 cups
- Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup
- Cardamom Powder - 2 pinches
- Ghee for deep frying
For Syrup :
- Water - 1 cup
- Sugar - 1 cup
- Saffron - 1/2 tsp
- Lemon Juice - 4-5 drops
Directions :
To make sugar syrup:
- Add sugar to water and bring it to boil.
- Add 4-5 drops of lime juice to prevent sugar from solidifying.
- Add saffron to this for a nice color.
- Syrup is ready. Keep aside.
To make double ka meetha:
- Cut bread slices diagonally into 2 halves.
- Now deep fry these bread pieces in ghee till they turn golden brown in color just for 15-20 seconds on each side.
- Remove it from the pan and soak it in the sugar syrup while the syrup is warm. Repeat this with other slices of bread.
- Boil milk on a low-medium flame and bring it to boil.
- Add condensed milk.
- Add 1-2 tsp of sugar or to taste.
- Keep stirring.
- Heat till the milk is thickened and reduced to 1/2 in quantity.
- Add cardamom powder.
- Add the bread pieces soaked in sugar syrup to the milk mixture and mash gently. Leave the crispy corners. It's nice to get a bite of it while eating the pudding.
- Roast all the dry fruits in a little ghee till golden. Pour this over the pudding and mix.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Check out the recipe of shahi tukda here.