Double ka meetha/Bread Halwa

Double ka meetha/Bread Halwa

         
    It is an very popular delicious hyderabadi dessert double ka meetha means bread and meetha means sweet. Very first i have tasted this sweet in muslim marriage. Every muslim's marriage you can find bread halwa with hot biriyani. It gives rich tatse with ghee flavour.

Ingredients:

• Bread slices - 7
• Milk - 1/2 litre
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Ghee/Oil - for deep frying bread pieces
• Toasted almonds - few (chopped)
• Cashew nuts - few (chopped) 
• Pistachio - few (chopped)
• Raisins - Few

Method:

• Remove the edges of the bread, cut into medum square pieces.

• Deep fry the bread in ghee until brown on low flame.keep it aside.(deep frying bread pieces ghee only gives rich taste than oil).

• Fry raisins and cashew nuts seperately. Chop the cashew's , toasted almond's ,pistachio's and keep it aside.

• Boil milk and keep aside.

• Add the fried bread pieces in boiled milk and rest it for half n hour.

• Heat a thick bottomed pan, add the soaked bread pieces in milk and sugar. Mix it well until it reaches

• halwa stage.(It should not be dry if it crosses your stage then total ghee will comes out from halwa). Bread halwa should be in semi solid stage.

• Atlast add the ghee and garnish with cashew nuts, raisins, pistachios and toasted almonds.

• Serve hot or cold.

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