double ka meetha

Double ka meetha			No. of Portions	100
Ingredients	QTY	Unit
Sliced bread	5	No.
Fat	5 kg – to deep fry
Sugar	4	Kg
Milk	12	Lt
Mava	1	Kg
Saffron	2	Gm
Cardamom	20	Gm
Pistachio	150 g

Vark 10 sheets

Pre Preparations

1.	Cut bread slices into 4 squares each. (if using bread loaf, cut into cubes of 2’’.
	Deep fry into hot fat till crisp and light brown. Drain well.
	Prepare sugar syrup with 2 kg sugar. Add saffron. Cool the syrup to room temperature. Method:
	Boil milk. Thicken it by reducing it to almost half. Add cardamom powder and sugar.
	Crush the bread . place in a flat tawa over the gas.
	Add sugar syrup little at a time. Cook the bread until syrup is soaked in.
	Add milk & cook again until milk is absorbed.
	Continue cooking the bread mixture with sugar syrup & milk until thick & moist.
	Serve garnished with mawa, pista & varkh.
	note all the sugar syrup & milk may not be require. The absorption capacity depends on the degree of frying bread.

NOTE:

In olden days, bread was known as ‘double roti’. Thus the name to the preparation – sweet dish made with double roti and NOT because it is sweetened ‘twice’ – once with sugar syrup and second with sweetened milk.