Double Ka Meetha - Hyderabadi delicacy

Ingredients:

Bread (White Preferably, with edges chopped off) - 10 Pieces 

Milk - Half a litre

Chopped Almonds  

Chopped Pistachio 

Raisins 

Cashew Nuts 

Sugar - 1 cup

Water - 1 cup

Ghee - For frying the bread slices and nuts

Cardamom Powder - 2 to 3 tsp

Procedure:

Sugar Syrup 

• Add 1 cup of sugar to 1 cup of water in a pan and let it boil.
• Stir the mixture continuously.
• Add some cardamom powder to it and let it boil for some more time. 
• Switch off the stove as and when you see the bubbles over the boiling mixture. (The bubbles indicate that the syrup is ready to use) Let it cool down. 

Bread Pieces:

• Chop of the edges of the bread. 
• Cut the bread pieces across the diagonal or cut into four pieces. Defrost the bread pieces in microwave for 40 seconds, to remove any moisture from them, you can also put them under sun for the same. This will eliminate the absorption of excess ghee in the next step. 

• Heat the ghee in a pan and add the bread pieces to deep fry them. 
• Keep turning them occasionally until they are golden brown.
• Take the fried bread pieces onto a blotting paper , to remove the excess oil/ghee and let them cool down

Milk : 

• Take a pan, and pour half a liter milk in it.
• Let the milk boil till it reduces to half the amount.
• When the milk reduces to half the amount taken, switch of the stove and let it cool. 

Dry Fruits:

• Heat little amount of ghee into a small pan to fry the dry fruits taken. 
• When the ghee is ready , add chopped almonds & pistachios to it. 
• When the almonds and pistachios have fried half a way, add cashew nuts to it. 
• When the cashew nuts have turned a little brown, add raisins to it  . 
• Switch of the stove as and when the raisins blow up.

This is to avoid over burning of raisins and cashews.

Final Step: 

• Take an aluminium tray, grease it with oil or ghee to avoid sticking to the surface.
• Arrange the fried bread slices in the tray. 
• Pour the reduced milk and sugar syrup evenly over the arranged bread slices. 
• Sprinkle the dry fruits evenly. 
• Preheat the oven to 175 C
• Cover the aluminium tray with the foil.
• Place the try in the oven and bake it for 30 - 40 minutes  depending upon the milk/syrup added.  

After 30 minutes, remove the tray from the oven and let it cool. 

Slurp! Slurp! Yummy double ka meetha is ready to serve.