Double ka meetha explained

Double ka Meetha
Country:	India
Region:	Old Hyderabad State which includes Marathi, Kannada and all Telugu regions (Naizam, Sircar and Ceded) ruled by Nizams and Qutub Shahis. Popular in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Course:	Dessert
Main Ingredient:	Bread, milk and dry fruits
Variations:	Shahi tukra

Double ka meetha (also known as Shahi Tukra,^{[1] [2]} is an Indian bread pudding sweet made of fried bread slices soaked in hot milk with spices, including saffron and cardamom.^[3] Double ka meetha is a dessert of Hyderabad.^[4] It is popular in Hyderabadi cuisine, served at weddings and parties. Double ka meetha refers to the milk bread, called "double roti" in the local Indian dialects because it swells up to almost double its original size after baking.

See also

• Qubani ka meetha

External links

• Recipe for Double ka Meetha
• Double ka meetha

Notes and References

1. Book: K. T. Achaya . Indian food: a historical companion . 1994 . Oxford University Press . 123 . 978-0-19-562845-6 . The very sweet, ghee-rich fried bread pudding laced with almonds, which elsewhere is called shahi-tukda, is in Hyderabad termed double-ka-meeta, the name stemming from the double-rod (bread loaf) that is used to make it..
2. Book: Colleen Taylor Sen . Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India . 2014 . Reaktion . 978-1-78023-391-8 . 204 . double ka meetha (also called shahi tukra), a bread pudding with cream.
3. http://www.bawarchi.com/recipe/hyderabadi-double-ka-meetha-oetn4rdbgeidi.html Hyderabadi double ka meetha
4. http://www.archanaskitchen.com/recipes/indian/indian-sweets-mithai-recipes/1411-hyderabadi-double-ka-meetha-traditional-bread-pudding Hyderabadi Double Ka Meetha | Traditional Bread Pudding