Instant Shahi Tukada

Today I’m writing my 20^th recipe and feeling really happy about it. This mark was achieved in less than 2 months. I’m thankful to each and every person who motivated, helped and encouraged me to start this blog. So to celebrate this day wanted to make something which is really close to heart and couldn't think of anything else but this Royal Sweet Dish called Shahi Tukada, only with my version of it is called as instant shahi tukada.

As a kid I always loved an awesome delicacy called Shahi Tukada which my mother used to make once in a while. Feast for sure. She used to make it with rabadi which used to take like forever to make. Sometimes she used to make it with left over rabadi or basundi. Yummy in our tummy!!!! When I started instant 2 min rabadi here in the US she was really curious about the outcome but loved it in the end. Win-win situation. Now the next step to instant rabadi obviously was shahi tukada with rabadi. However, I don’t know why but I was little skeptical of the outcome. Tried it the other day and wow the outcome indeed was the same as traditional shahi tukada. As always my two guinea pigs (hubby and a 3.5yr old toddler) were ready for a taste test and I passed. So thought of sharing it with you all. Hope you love it too. Here you go!!!!

Ingredients:

1. Bread slices: 4-6
2. Milk: 1 ½ Cup
3. Sugar: ½ Cup
4. Green cardamom powder: 1 Tsp
5. Clarified butter/ Ghee: 8-10 Tbsp. 
6. Almonds: 8-10 (blanched, peeled and sliced) 
7. Pistachios: 8-10 (blanched, peeled and sliced) 
8. Rose water: 1-2 Tbsp. (optional) 
9. Warm Rabadi: 2 Cups

Method:

1. Take bread slices and with the help of any cookie cutter or mold (heart shape, circle, triangular etc.) cut shapes out of them. Traditionally it is cut in triangular shapes.
2. Chop the nuts and keep them aside.
3. Take milk in a non-stick pan and add sugar to it. Now add cardamom powder. Warm the milk on medium-law flame, keep stirring it continuously. Scrape the sides too and now let the milk boil. At this time if you like rose flavor, put rose water in the milk and stir it (this step is completely optional)
4. Now take another non-stick pan and put ghee in it. Put bread slices in the ghee and shallow fry it till nice golden-brown color. Drain all the ghee and put it in the milk. Traditionally it is deep fried but I wanted to keep it little healthy and with less calories so I shallow fried the bread, choice is yours if you want to deep fry it.
   
5. Take the bread slices out of the milk and put them aside.
6. Now take serving plate and put prepared rabadi as a base. I have a very easy recipe for instant rabadi. You may want to click on the link for this rabadi. Put bread slices which were dipped in milk, top it with more rabadi and nuts. 
   
7. Serve it chilled or warm, choice is yours.
8. Presenting to you a very healthy yet quick recipe of our favorite and royal sweet dish.

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Related recipes: 

Instant rabadi recipe

Instant Khajuri Shahi Tukada/ Double ka Meetha recipe 

Clarified butter/ Desi ghee recipe 

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Instant Rabadi

I love all kinds of sweets. I do have a sweet tooth and so does my 3 year old son. So I’m always in a hunt of new and easy recipes of desert. The other day I happened to read an instant rabadi recipe posted by Poonam’s kitchen and instantly fell in love with the recipe.

My mother used to make rabadi on the cooking gas with 5 liters of whole milk and she used to reduce it to around 2 liters in the end. Yummy!!!! Can’t forget that taste. 

So when I tried this instant rabadi recipe for the 1^st time, it just reminded me of my mom’s rabadi but instead of spending 2-3 hrs, I spent just 2-3 minutes on it. Thanks to Poonam’s kitchen. I made few minor changes to the original recipe and it was a big hit on all the occasions. Recently made it on the New year’s eve and instant rabadi was an instant hit :)

Ingredients:

1. Sweetened condensed milk: 14 Oz can
2. Ricotta cheese (Fat Free or Part Skim): 15 Oz can
3. Cardamom powder: ½ Tbsp. 
4. Pistachios: ¼ Cup (finely chopped) 
5. Slivered Almonds: 8-10 
6. Cashews: 10-12
7. Saffron: ½ Tbsp. 
8. Warm Milk: ¼ Cup

Procedure:

1.    Take a big bowl.

2.    Add ricotta cheese. (see the notes at the end of the recipe)

3.    Add full can of sweetened condensed milk to ricotta cheese. If you like it less sweet, you may add around 10 Oz of it.

4.    Add all the dry fruits to it. Keep some finely chopped pistachios and almonds for garnishing later.

5.    Put cardamom powder.

6.    Take warm milk and put some saffron strands in it. Stir it well and add this milk to the above mixture.

7.    Stir everything well with whisk till all the ingredients are incorporated well in each other.

8.    Put the lid and put it in the refrigerator for serving. Alternatively, you may put rabadi in disposable cups and garnish with pistachios and slivered almonds. Put cling wrap on each cup and refrigerate it.

9.    Serve it chilled. You may microwave it for 15 to 20 seconds before serving if you want it to be warm. It tastes good in any form.

Note:

1.    I usually use “part skim” ricotta cheese. The original recipe calls for a full fat ricotta cheese. However, I felt it was too thick to consume after refrigerating it. Also we felt it was little powdery. It was my family’s observation so I started to use partly skimmed version of it. Part skimmed cheese obviously has less calories so I prefer to use it. It is totally up to you if you wish to use full fat ricotta cheese.

2.    Before chopping the almonds, soak them in warm water for about 15-20 minutes. This will ease out the process of taking the cover off and cutting them.

3.    If your pistachios have dry skin on them, please take it off before chopping them. That dry skin doesn't have any pleasant taste.

You may eat this rabadi with warm jalebi, gulabjamuns or with malpua. Also you may freeze it in kulfi molds to make it nice milk kulfi. Obviously it tastes the best when consumed just like that without any additional items. Presenting to you a very healthy yet quick recipe of our favorite sweet!!!

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