Shahi Tukray

Ingredients:

• White bread slices 4 cut into 8 pieces
• Milk 1 liter
• Sugar 1 cup
• Small cardamoms (choti ilaichi) 6(only seeds)
• Milk powder 1 cup
• Yellow food color or saffron one pinch (dissolved in 1 tsp milk)
• Ghee/Oil 1 cup
• Silver waraq (optional)
• Almonds and pistachios 10 (blanched and a slivered)

Preparations:

Heat ghee/oil in a frying pan.

Fry slices in it until they are golden brown.

Remove slices from the ghee/oil and leave them on a newspaper.

Wipe off the ghee/oil from the frying pan and boil milk in it.

When milk starts boiling put in cardamom seeds, sugar and milk powder, let it cook on low heat for five minutes.

When milk starts thickening mix the dissolved food coloring or saffron.

Line bread slices at the bottom of a wide serving dish, pour milk mixture over, cool and sprinkle with nuts.

Decorated with thin sliver paper (silver waraq).

Serve hot or cold.