Double Ka Meetha

Name: Double Ka Meetha
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Deccani (Hyderabadi)
Ingredients: 8 slice double roti (milk bread); ghee; sugar syrup with cardamom, saffron, rose/kewra; 300 g rabri / mawa (reduced milk); fried nuts, optional edible silver varak

Ghee-fried milk bread soaked in cardamom-saffron syrup and layered with rabri — the richer Deccani relative of shahi tukda, born for weddings and Eid.

1 hr · Serves 8 · Medium

Recipe by Halal Gourmet Editorial Team

Ingredients

Base

8 slicedouble roti (milk bread)
ghee

Syrup

sugar syrup with cardamom, saffron, rose/kewra

Layer

300 grabri / mawa (reduced milk)

Garnish

fried nuts, optional edible silver varak

Method

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Time: Prep 20 min · Cook 40 min · 60 min total
Difficulty: medium

1
Fry bread slices in ghee until golden and crisp.
15 min
2
Dip briefly in warm cardamom-saffron syrup.
10 min
3
Layer with rabri; top with fried nuts (and varak if used).
15 min

Notes and swaps

Allergens: Not assessed yet. Check each ingredient if you have an allergy.
Swaps: Use alcohol-free vanilla / ground cardamom; specify halal-certified edible silver or omit.: Modern shortcuts sometimes add alcohol-based vanilla or unverified varak.