Toast for Kings

Shahi Tukri

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Mrs Balbir Singh

Published 1961

  • About

Shahi tukri is a toast cooked in milk, ghee and khoa (dried fresh whole milk). It becomes so delicious that it is hardly possible to discover its basis.

Ingredients

  • 6 slices of bread
  • 2 ozs (60 g) ghee

Method

Cut rectangular pieces of bread and discard the hard crust. Fry them in the ghee till golden brown. Heat the milk and dissolve in it the saffron and sugar. Pour it over the browned slices of bread and allow them to soak for a few minutes.

In the meantime brown the khoa (dried fresh whole milk) lightly in the remaining ghee. Separate the milk from the toast, mix it with