How much cooking time?

50 min — 20 min prep, 30 min cooking.

Nawabi Shahi Tukra

Name: Nawabi Shahi Tukra
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: West Bengal Indian
Ingredients: 10g badam; 10g pistachios; 180g sugar; 150g White Bread; 0.2g Saffron; 60g Ghee; 750g Milk; 5g Rose Water; 1g Cardamom Powder; 100g Water

Fried bread slices soaked in cardamom-saffron rabri and topped with pistachios. Royal Mughal dessert from Murshidabad kitchens.

Time 50 min · Serves 4 · 575 kcal · Murshidabad, West Bengal

Ingredients

Garnish

badam (garnish) — 10 g
pistachios (garnish) — 10 g

Main

sugar — 180 g
White Bread — 150 g
Saffron — 0.2 g
Ghee — 60 g
Milk — 750 g
Rose Water — 5 g
Cardamom Powder — 1 g
Water — 100 g

Method

Boil milk and simmer, stirring often, until it thickens to one-third.
Add 80 g sugar, saffron and cardamom to the rabri. Cook 2 minutes.
Boil the rest of the sugar with water to a sticky syrup. Add rose water.
Trim bread crusts and cut each slice into two triangles.
Shallow fry bread in ghee until golden and crisp on both sides.
Dip the fried bread in syrup for a few seconds.
Arrange on a plate and pour rabri over the bread.
Top with sliced pistachios and almonds. Serve chilled or warm.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Nawabi Shahi Tukra?: 575 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 50 min — 20 min prep, 30 min cooking.

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