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Shahi Tukda Recipe with garnish: A stacked serving of bread pieces soaked in rabri, topped with rose petals and nuts, with extra sauce pooling around.

Shahi Tukda Recipe

This Shahi Tukda recipe brings the royal Mughlai dessert to your kitchen. Crispy golden bread soaked in aromatic sugar syrup, layered with saffron-infused rabri, and topped with nuts and silver leaf. A celebratory dish perfected over generations, perfect for Eid, weddings, and festivals.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian, Mughlai, Pakistani
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Resting Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 420kcal
Cost: $8

Equipment

  • 1 Heavy-bottomed saucepan (For rabri)
  • 1 Deep frying pan / kadai (For frying bread)
  • 1 Sharp knife (To cut bread diagonally)
  • 1 Slotted spoon (To lift fried bread)
  • 1 Serving dish / plate (For assembly)

Ingredients

The Bread Foundation

  • 6–8 slices White bread - Stale bread works best
  • 1 cup Ghee - For deep frying
  • 1 cup Sugar - For syrup
  • 1 cup Water -
  • 4–5 pods Cardamom - Lightly crushed

The Rich Rabri

  • 1 liter Whole milk -
  • ½ cup Heavy cream - Optional for richness
  • ¼ cup Sugar - Adjust to taste
  • 6–8 strands Saffron - Soaked in warm milk
  • ½ teaspoon Cardamom powder -
  • ½ teaspoon Rose water - Optional

The Royal Garnish

  • 1 tablespoon Almonds - Chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Pistachios - Chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Cashews - Chopped
  • 2–3 strands Saffron - For garnish
  • Optional - Silver leaf For - authentic royal touch

Instructions

  • Combine sugar and water in a pan, add cardamom, simmer until slightly thick.
    Ingredients laid out: Bread slices, butter, sugar, cardamom, and ghee displayed neatly in bowls on a gray surface.
  • Heat milk and cream, add saffron, simmer, reduce, sweeten, add cardamom & rose.
    Sugar syrup preparation: A pan of bubbling sugar syrup with green cardamom pods, stirred with a wooden spoon.
  • Cut bread diagonally, fry in ghee until golden, drain on paper towels.
    Rabri preparation: A saucepan of creamy milk with saffron strands and cardamom, stirred with a wooden spoon.
  • Dip bread in syrup, arrange, pour rabri, garnish with nuts, saffron, silver leaf.
    Fried bread slices: Golden, crispy triangular bread pieces frying in a black skillet.
  • Rest for 30 minutes, serve at room temp or chilled.
    Shahi Tukda Recipe with garnish: A stacked serving of bread pieces soaked in rabri, topped with rose petals and nuts, with extra sauce pooling around.

Notes

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Nutrition

Serving: 120g | Calories: 420kcal (21%) | Carbohydrates: 50g (17%) | Protein: 9g (18%) | Fat: 20g (31%) | Saturated Fat: 12g (75%) | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 45mg (15%) | Sodium: 110mg (5%) | Potassium: 220mg (6%) | Fiber: 2g (8%) | Sugar: 30g (33%) | Vitamin A: 600IU (12%) | Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) | Calcium: 180mg (18%)
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