Double Ka Meetha
Hyderabad, a city created by the Nawabs of Golconda, has developed its own cuisine over the centuries: the Hyderabadi cuisine.
The Double Ka Meetha is a dessert from this cuisine. It’s very easy to prepare.
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Bread, slice: 1 pkt
- Milk: 1 litre
- Sugar: 500 gms
- Double cream: 250 gms
- Cashew nuts, chopped and roasted: 100 gms
- Almonds, soaked and chopped: 100 gms
- Saffron dissolved in a little milk: 10 gms
- Cardamom, powdered: 5 nos
- Butter: 250 gms
Preparation time
25 minutes
Preparation
- Cut an individual bread slice into four pieces and fry them in butter till it gets a nice golden brown colour.
- By adding ½ litre of water to the sugar make a syrup and boil for a few minutes.
- Now add the cardamom powder and the saffron dissolved in milk to the sugar syrup.
- Boil milk until it is thickens.
- In a plate arrange the fried bread pieces and sprinkle the chopped nuts on them.
- Next pour the sugar syrup, double cream and milk alternately over the bread pieces while they are still hot.
- Once your finish with the dish, place it in the fridge and serve as chilled dessert.
