Bread Halwa,Bread Halwa Recipe,

Bread Halwa

Main Ingredients: bread and milk
Cuisine: North Indian
Category: Dessert 
Level Of Cooking: Medium
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• Bread slices 8-10
• Ghee 1/2 cup 
• Milk 500 ml
• Sugar to taste
• Almonds 1 tablespoon (chopped)
• pistachio 1 tablespoon (chopped)  
• Cashew nuts  1 tablespoon (chopped)
• Cardamom 3-4 (peel and grind)
• Pinch of saffron strands

For garnishing:

• 4-5 tablespoon Fresh cream

Method:

1. Break the bread into small pieces. 
2. Take a heavy bottom pan and heat ghee into it.
3. Reserve 1 tablespoons of ghee for later use.
4. Add cashews, almonds and pistachios. Fry till these turn to golden brown. Remove these from the ghee. Keep aside.
5. Put the bread pieces into the ghee and roast it on medium flame.
6. It should be golden in color, once the bread gets roasted, put milk, saffron  and sugar to it.
7. Stir the halwa continuously and press the bread pieces with the ladle to mash it.
8. Bring to boil and Cook on a low heat till the bread pieces become soft / dissolve.
9. Cook till the mixture becomes thick. That is, it should gain halwa type consistency. 
10. Add cardamom powder, reserved ghee and fried dry fruits and mix well.
11. Bread Halwa is ready. 
12. Take it out in a serving dish and garnish with fresh cream.
13.  Serve it hot.

Notes:

• You can use any quality of bred to make Halwa. Every quality has its own unique taste
• You can either use or discard the edges of the bread. If you use these, however, the halwa taste will be unique.
• Do not deep-fry the bread pieces in ghee, because the pieces will consume more ghee.