Double Ka Meetha

 

What is  Double ka Meetha?

Double ka Meetha is prepared using bread, milk, sugar, nuts and ghee. This is very simple and easy to make dessert. The word Double comes from ‘Double roti’ which means bread and ‘Meetha’ means sweet, so the name ‘Double Ka Meetha’. Double ka meetha is desi version of Bread Pudding.

After having spicy food like biryani, dalcha, ambada gosht etc., a dessert like double ka meetha brings comforts to the taste buds. Last morning we (me, hubby, MIL and SIL) were having a casual conversation over breakfast about wedding desserts and suddenly ‘double ka meetha’ came into our conversation. Before leaving to office, dear husband has asked me to make it in dinner for dessert. Rarely comes a request for a sweet recipe from my husband and my MIL and SIL are home, I thought of making it and I also got a chance to click step-wise pictures.

Main Ingredients to make Double Ka Meetha are,

Bread Slices: Any normal sweet bread or milk bread can be used to make this meetha. You can make this using rusk too. In Hyderabad, many bakeries and grocery stores, sell a special bread which will be perfect for making double ka meetha.

Milk: I used low-fat milk in making this dessert. You can use full cream milk too.

Refined Granulated Sugar: Traditonal recipe calls for granulated white sugar. If looking out for healthy options then you can use brown sugar or jaggery powder too. But sugar is the preferred ingrdient in making this double ka meetha.

Cardamom Powder: You can easily make cardamom powder at home. Take 4-5 green cardamoms and grind to smooth in pestle and mortar. Fresh ground cardamom will bring nice aroma and taste in the recipe.

Cashew Nuts: Fried and coarsely chopped cashews are added while making this dessert and also used as garnish.

Saffron: Authentic and traditional recipe of double ka meetha recipe calls for saffron. If you are not having saffron, you can easily substitute it with orange food color.

Ghee: The double ka meetha made in weddings calls for dalda. But you can use desi ghee. I use half of ghee and half od oil in frying bread slices.

Tips to make Perfect Double ka Meetha Recipe

• It is important to taste the bread before cooking. If you are using a sweet bread then reduce the quantity of sugar. You can also use deep fried almonds, pistachio and raisins.
• You can use only ghee in making this. I have used half ghee and half oil to fry bread slices to nice brown.
• This time I did not trim the edges as the bread I used in the recipe was fresh and sides were perfectly light brown and not to thick. Trimming the edges is usually done to get perfect fried bread slice.

How to make Shadiyon Wala Double ka Meetha (Step by Step with Pictures)

• Remove the edges of bread slices. Spread them on a plate or kitchen towel and dry them. You can dry them in sun or under fan for 30-45 minutes. 
• Now in a pan add ghee and separately fry raisins and cashews till they turn light brown. Remove and Set aside.

• Make a sugar syrup by combining sugar and water. When the water starts to boil, add cardamom powder.
• Cook on low flame till sugar is completely dissolved.
• When the sugar syrup starts to thicken, turn off the flame and leave it to cool. Set aside.
• Add little ghee and oil and to the same pan and deep fry the bread slices till golden brown.
• In a wide bowl add milk and to this add saffron strands along with the milk in which we soaked them. 
• Soak the fried bread slices directly in milk. Repeat till all the bread slices are fried and soaked in milk.
• Gently stir in the fried bread slices in the milk, so that fried bread slices soak up all  the milk.

• Now pour in sugar syrup over the soaked bread slices and combine well.
• Cook this  mixture on low flame till you get the desired consistency.
• Stir in between and take care not to burn the meetha.

• Garnish with fried cashew nuts and serve it warm or cool.
• Once the halwa has come down to room temperature store it in air tight box in refrigerator for a week.