Lazeez Double Ka Meetha

Lazeez means delicious in Urdu language. Double ka meetha is yet another delightful dessert served in all traditional Andhra Muslim Wedding's. This sweet is prepared using bread, milk, sugar, nuts and ghee. This is very simple and easy to make dessert. ‘Double roti’ means bread and ‘Meetha’ means sweet, so the name 'Double Ka Meetha'. After having spicy food like biryani, dalcha, ambada gosht etc., a dessert like double ka meetha comforts the tastebuds.

This lazeez dessert is going to participate in SWC - ANDHRA PRADESH event hosted by Indian Hut, event WYF Party Food hosted by EC of Simple Indian Food and also in FIC BROWN hosted by Tongue Ticklers. I also like to send this to Aparna who is celebrating her Blog's first Birthday in a unique style. Happy Birthday "My Diverse Kitchen".

INGREDIENTS:

• 12 Bread slices
• 4 cups Milk
• 2 cups Water
• 2 cups Sugar
• 1/2 tbsp Cardamom powder
• handful Cashewnuts
• few Saffron strands (soaked in lukewarm milk)
• Ghee for frying

PREPERATION:

• Trim the edges of bread slices and dry them for an hour. (You can sundry them or just leave it under the fan with each slice seperately placed).

• In a pan add ghee and fry cashewnuts till they turn lightly brown and set aside.
• In the same pan, deep fry the bread slices by adding ghee (fry till slices are golden brown, but do not burn them).
• By combining sugar and water, make a syrup. Add cardamom powder to this and bring it boil. Cook till you get a thick consistency.
• Now soak the bread slices one by one in lukewarm milk and set aside.
• When all the bread slices are soaked in milk, add these slices to the sugar syrup ans also add saffron strands soaked milk. Mix well.
• Cook for 3-6 minutes on a very low flame or cook till you get thick consistency of the dessert.
• Garnish with fried cashewnuts and serve warm or cool.
• Last but not least add your 'love' to make the dish 'YUMMY'.

NOTE : 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.