Shahi Tukda

Ingredients:

• 1 whole uncut -bakery bread
• 1 cooking spoon-Ghee
• 2 litre - Full cream milk or if health conscious can use toned milk too
• 2 Tbsp - Pista, blanched and chopped
• 1 bowl - Sugar
• 1 - Cardamom, powdered
• 4-5 Nos- Almonds, toasted and sliced
• Few strands of saffron and zarda color mixed in milk.
• Some ghee for frying bread

Method:

• Cut the whole bread into thick same size pieces and then cut off the edges of the bread and cut it four squares from one piece. Keep aside for minimum 2 hours to make it a little hard. I prefer let it dry for a day or so that it soaks less ghee. Alternatively, one can dry it in oven too. I have kept it there for some time when short of time

• Take some ghee in a kadai and fry the bread pieces and then keep it aside.

• Take milk in a big utencil and let it cook and thicken for some time. Then add sugar to it and let it cook till the sugar dissolves. Let it boil and then simmer for 10 minutes. Add the powdered elachi into it and strants of saffron and zarda color during this time.

• When the milk is done, add the fried bread in it and it soaks all milk and immediately take off fame and close the lid. Add dry fruits when done. Pista tastes best in it.

• One can decorate with some khoya too (optional)- I skip this step as I thicken milk a lot.

• Cover it and refrigerate.

P.S. If bakery bread not available I have used usual sliced bread too...Tastes different...But still the dessert is awesome as this is my favorite Indian dessert :D

Bread Rolls

Ingredients 

For Potato mixture

Potatoes -4 to 5 (boiled)

Red chilly powder - About 1/2 tsp

Salt- about 1/2 tsp

Onions- few pieces

Green chilly- few pieces

Coriander- to sprinkle 

Ghee- 1 tsp

Bread Rolls

Breads-5 to 6 ( Stales if there or else use fresh)

Bread corners removed if one wants to make bread fries

For Frying 

Oil ( According to requirement 

Recipe

1. Boil potatoes in a cooker with salt for 2-3 whistles.

2. Peel skin off the potatoes and mash them nicely in a large bottomed utencil.

3. Add all the potatoes ingredients to it except ghee and mix properly.

4. Take a tawa and heat it and then add some ghee to it.

5. Add the potato to mixture to it and fry by changing sides till its golden brown.

6. Take down the mixture and let it cool for a while.

7. Take breads and remove it corners.

8. Take water in a large bottomed pan and soak bread in it for a while ( long time if stale bread)

9. Take the bread out and squeeze water out of it.

10. Heat oil in a kadai in the meantime.

11. Take bread in the hand and put some potato mixture in the centre and circle bread around it and press tighly so it holds.

12. Put the roll in the kadai and fry on both sides.

13. Make rest of the rolls in the same way.

14. In the end fry bread corners in the same oil till nicely fried.

Bread Rolls and Bread Fries are ready.