Double Ka Meetha

Cooking Time: 30 mins                            Servings: 5
Preparation Time: 15 mins                       Category: Dessert


"Double Ka Meetha" is a famous dessert from the city of pearls, Hyderabad. It is made from fried bread slices soaked in cardomom flavoured sugar syrup & hot milk and topped with cashews, pistachios, saffron etc.

Double Ka Meeta or Indian bread pudding is a popular dessert of Hyderabadi cuisine and is served at most weddings and parties. More often than not, it is the double ka meetha that one encounters which is an immensely rich dessert and worthy of special occasions. Double ka Meetha is a specialty of Hyderabad and the name of which would many who have had it, drool like crazy. Bread is commonly known as "double roti" in Hyderabad and hence this name.

Give this luscious pudding a try! It's another dessert which is really to die for :)

Ingredients:

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Double Ka Meetha/Indian Bread Pudding

Sliced Bread loaf - 1

Sugar - 200 gms

Milk - 1/2 litre

Ghee - 3 Tbsp

Cooking oil - 2 Tbsp

Cardamom powder - 2 tsps

Khoa/thickened milk - 1 Tbsp (optional)

Saffron - a pinch

Water - 4 cups

Dry fruits:

• Cashew nuts/Kaju - 1/2 cup
• Raisins - 1 tsp
• Pistachios - 2 tsps cup
• Karboja seeds/Melon seeds - 1 tsp

Preparation:

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• Heat 2 Tbsps of ghee along with cooking oil in a vessel and deep fry the bread slices. (It's your choice to use only ghee or mix cooking oil with it. If its only ghee then you need 5 Tbsps of it).
• Drain on tissue paper and place on a tray-like vessel and keep aside.
• Boil milk in a bowl on low heat. Now mash the khoa/thickened milk and add it in the bowl. Keep stirring till milk starts to condense.
• Add a pinch of saffron to the milk and mix well or you can use it for the topping without adding it to the milk
• Take water in a bowl and boil it, add sugar and keep stirring till it becomes thick syrup, add cardamom powder.
• Dip each fried bread slice in milk and add it to the sugar syrup bowl, mix gently and keep aside.
• Heat a Tbsp of ghee in a pan and saute cashewnuts, raisins, pista and melon seeds for a couple of minutes and keep aside.
• Add the remaining milk directly to the bread and mix gently. Let the mixture soak with bread for 30 mins minimum.
• Once it is soaked well, serve it as a dessert with fried dry fruits and a pinch of saffron as topping.