Ingredients:
• 10 slices bread
• 2 cups – Milk
• oil for deep frying
• Pistachios (unsaltedl)
• For the Syrup:
• 2.5 cups – Sugar
• 15 to 20 strands Saffron (soaked in 1 tbsp – warm water for few minutes)
• 6 to 7 green Cardamoms (powdered)
• 3 cups – water
Method:
- Pour the milk into a thali or flat dish. Soak one slice of bread in it at a time.
- Heat oil and deep fry individually
- (dripping-in-milk) slices of bread on a medium flame till it is golden brown and crisp.
- Simultaneously you must start making the syrup on another burner.
- First mix the sugar in the water and set it to boil.
- After 5 minutes add the saffron and cardamom powder.
- Boil for another 20 minutes till you get one thread consistency.
- Dip each slice, fresh from the frying pan into the syrup and let it soak for 5 minutes.
- Serve garnished with finely chopped pistachios.
Recipe courtesy of Anita Raheja