Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Double Ka meetha

Double ka meetha is a dessert of Hyderabad and made from hot crisp fried roundels of bread, soaked in saffron and cardamom flavoured syrup, topped with cream. It is similar to of Shahi tukre.

It is a popular dessert of Hyderabadi cuisine. It is served at weddings and parties. More often than not, it is the double ka meetha that one encounters or, if a more elaborate banquet is being hosted, gille firdaus or badam ki jaali relegate this simple yet elegant sweet to the background

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Sugar           - 1 Cup
Condensed Milk  - 3 Tsp
Bread slices    - 4
saffron         - 2 small pieces
Milk            - 2 Cups
Almonds         - 4
Cashews         - 4
Dried Grapes    - 4
Ghee            - 1 tsp

Cut bread into halves of triangle and let them dry over night , fry in ghee till golden brown.
Make sugar syrup flavoured with cardamom and saffron color. Slowly boil milk till it is reduced to 1/4 of original.
soak bread in sugar syrup for few seconds and remove . put all nuts and dryfruits over the sweetened bread and pour over syrup.
You can add a little of Milk and serve chilled as well.

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