Double Ka Meetha | Hyderabadi Shahi tukda - Bread pudding

Double ka meetha is a dessert of Hyderabad and made from hot crisp fried roundels of bread, soaked in saffron and cardamom-flavoured syrup, topped with cream. It is similar to of Shahi tukre.This is a very famous royal hyderabadi sweet. It gots its name as double (for double roti, or bread ) and meetha, i.e, sweet. Its also known as Shahi Tukra.

It is a popular dessert of Hyderabadi cuisine. It is served at weddings and parties. More often than not, it is the double ka meetha that one encounters or, if a more elaborate banquet is being hosted, gille firdaus or badam ki jaali relegate this simple yet elegant sweet to the background.It is made from bread, milk, thickened cream, ghee, cashew nuts, Almonds, Saffron and Cardamom.
You can serve this meetha when warm, some even prefer it chilled, it is up to ones own liking.

This dessert is also referred to as a ‘King of Bread Puddings’. It is served usually at weddings in Hyderabad and is an important dessert reserved for festivals, celebrations and on other special occasions. This meetha is an evolved version of the Lucknowi Shahi Tukde, which is more rich and heavier kind of this meetha


Ingredients :
4-8 Bread
500 litre Milk
500gms Sugar
2 tbsp milk powder mixed in 2 tbsp
2 tbsp Pure Ghee
8-10 Chopped & roasted cashew nuts
6-7 Almonds (soaked and chopped)
5-6 Saffron
5 Cardamom powdered



Method :
1. Cut each bread slice into four pieces. 



2. Fry them in ghee till golden brown. 

3. Make a sugar syrup by adding half a litre of water to the sugar and boil it for 15 minutes. Add the powdered cardamom and the saffron dissolved in milk to the sugar syrup. Boil milk until it is thickened.

4.Prepare reduced spiced milk mixture(rabdi).In a milk sauce pan, pour milk and let it boil once on high heat. Once it has come to a boil,add milk powder,  lower the heat, and let it cook till it has reduced to half its original quantity,Add cardamom powder and keep aside.

5. Arrange the fried bread pieces on a flat tray and sprinkle the chopped nuts on them. Pour the sugar syrup &  milk rabdi alternately over the bread pieces while they are still hot. you can even dip the bread pieces in sugar syrup & then arrange in plate ,sprinkle the chopped nuts &  pour milk rabdi on top .

6. Finally refrigerate and serve as dessert.