Shahi Tukra Recipe

Ingredients:

• ½ cup Milk
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• Saffron threads
• 2 Cinnamon sticks
• ¼ cup Caster Sugar
• 1 tbsp flaked Almonds
• 8 slices stale White Bread
• 6 Cardamom pods, bruised
• 375 ml can Evaporated milk
• 1 tbsp chopped shelled Pistachios

Method:

1. Cut bread slices into rounds.
2. Heat half the ghee in a large pan; cook half the bread rounds until browned both sides. Repeat with remaining ghee and rounds.
3. Arrange rounds, overlapping slightly, in shallow 1 litre ovenproof dish.
4. Combine evaporated milk (homogenized milk from which 60% of the water is removed), milk, spices and sugar in large pan, stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved then simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Strain into small bowl.
5. Pour milk mixture over bread rounds, sprinkle with nuts; stand for 30 minutes.
6. Bake uncovered in moderate oven about 15 minutes or until browned lightly.