Double Ka Meetha - Sweet Bread Dessert
Double ka meetha is coined from the word ‘Double Roti’, a colloquial and traditional name for sliced white bread in Hyderabad, India. This dessert is densely rich in taste and calories.
Author: Birjis Adeni Rashed
Cuisine: Indian
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8
Cook time:
Total time:
Ingredients
- White Bread/ Wheat Bread-1 full loaf
- Ghee(clarified butter)/Butter-1/2 lb
- Sugar- 1.75 lb( add to taste)
- Water- 1 cup
- Condensed Milk/ (Khova) -1/2 lb
- Cardamom - 10-12
- Cinnamon sticks- 2 inches
- Orange food color -1 pinch
- Almonds- 6-8
- Cashew - 8-10
- Raisins - 10-15
Instructions
- Take a whole loaf of bread except the two ends and lay it out on a tray for 10 to 20 minutes to air dry and lightly stiffen. Next using a bread knife, remove the brown crust on all four sides and cut each slice in 4 quarters.
- Alternatively make sugar syrup with water and sugar and boil together till a one touch consistency (i.e. if you dip your two fingers and test the consistency of the syrup, one string of sugar syrup is formed between two fingers. This is one touch consistency)
- In a large pot add ghee and fry the bread pieces till brown and drain out. Also fry the slivered almonds, cashews and raisins and set aside. You may substitute this step with oil to avoid added fat absorbed in the bread.
- In ghee / clarified butter add the cinnamon sticks a pleasant aroma emanates. Add the sugar syrup and the khova or condensed milk and stir all together. The fried bread pieces can be soaked in a little milk before adding to the syrup. Next add cardamom shelled and powdered for flavor and saffron or orange food color mixed in warm milk to give the desert its bright color. Let the desert get cooked on low flame till the syrup gets absorbed and it reaches a right consistency. To avoid breaking the bread to pulp, stir mildly and minimally.
- Garnish with fried slivered almonds, cashews and raisins and serve warm.
Notes
Double ka Meetha is similar in taste to another dessert called Shahi Tukde. This dessert uses the same ingredients but has a slight variation in the end where the pieces of bread are not mushed together like pudding, but remain as individual pieces of bread.
Serving Size
Serving size: 8
