Bread halwa recipe is one of the quickest Indian dessert recipe that can be prepared within 10 minutes using 5 ingredients. Best to serve in breakfast, great lunch box idea and perfect to add as a sweet recipe in the party menu. Combine bread slices, sugar, ghee, and nuts and enjoy this delicious halwa with your next meal.
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About This Recipe
Bread halwa is the easiest sweet bread recipe that people love to eat all across India and Pakistan. The recipe has been prepared using 5 ingredients but the way it is cooked is a surprise as it amazingly enhances the flavor of bread that you will feel once you eat. As it’s a widely acceptable recipe so every region makes it according to their taste. Like; prepare bread halwa with milk or without milk, with khoya or without khoya, and with variations of different nuts.
Here is the traditional style bread halwa recipe that is common in Indian desserts. When I was kid, my mother used to make this halwa with leftover bread slices and we all like it and sometimes take it to school in lunch box. There is no rocket science to prepare this simple halwa recipe only you need bread slices, sugar, clarified butter (ghee), and almonds. Only trick is the process of making that makes it super scrumptious.
Last year, my Indian friend from Bombay sent me a bread halwa tray in Ramadan which was near to the taste of wedding style halwa. I was so excited to ask the actual recipe so she told me this one. I tried and it was awesome. My 8 years old love it and ate in no time.
Indian dessert recipes comprise on long list but in quick dessert, I want to list it at number 2 after suji halwa.
See Also: Suji Ka Halwa Katli
Ingredients
Bread: Used white bread slices soaked in a hot sugar syrup to make this halwa.
Sugar: Brown sugar used. White granulated sugar or jaggery can be used.
Ghee: Cooked halwa with the help of ghee. Butter can also be used.
Almonds: Use coarsely ground roasted almonds.
Water: used to make sugar syrup.
One of the best sweet bread recipe idea is to prepare bread halwa as it is extremely delicious to serve as a dessert. As it's prepared with a handful of ingredients from pantry but the taste will give you a buttery, creamy, and bread pudding flavor.
How to Make Bread Halwa
Roast the almonds in a preheated pan on low heat.
Cut the sides of bread slices and make cubes.
In a pan, pour ghee and toast bread pieces from both sides.
Take out toasted bread pieces to use the same pan.
In a pan, pour water and let it boil for few minutes then add sugar and cook on medium heat to get a semi-thick sugar syrup.
Now add toasted bread slices in pan and give it good mix with rubber spatula.
As the bread combines and makes a homogenous form then add ghee and cook the halwa for about 2 to 3 minutes on low heat. Keep folding/stirring with a spatula during cooking. Don’t overcook!
Now the halwa is ready to serve! Garnish with almonds or desiccated coconut.
Expert Tips
- Toasted bread makes a perfect sweet and nutty flavor in halwa.
- Use proper ratio of sugar syrup and bread. So the bread can easily soak the syrup to form a halwa. If there is more sugar syrup then it will become soft and thin in texture. If the syrup is less then the bread will be hard and stiffy.
- Don’t use oil to cook halwa. Always use butter or ghee as it add lubrication and bind the halwa so well.
- Don’t overcook the halwa otherwise, it left burnt taste.
- To make it tastier, you can sprinkle a pinch of cardamom powder.
- Bread halwa with milk powder has different taste as compare to make with water.
- Cooking halwa on low heat with ghee makes a perfect flavor that pairs so well with nuts.
- If you are using leftover bread then microwave for a minute before use to make it soft and spongy.
- Roasted nuts make a perfect flavor and crunch in halwa that tastes so good.
- Use any type of white milk bread to make this halwa.
- Monitor the sugar content if you are using sweet bread.
- To add sweetness in halwa, white granulated sugar, brown sugar and jaggery can be used.
Variations
This recipe follows traditional style bread halwa without milk but there are many other ingredients that you can add to add more flavor in this halwa recipe according to your taste.
- You can prepare bread halwa with milk powder on the place of water applying the same recipe.
- Cardamom powder and cinnamon powder can be use and it will add a strong flavor and aroma.
- If you are making it with milk then cow milk or milk powder can be used.
- Make it more tasty by adding almonds, cashews, raisins, walnuts, and pistachios.
- Add Khoya in halwa to make it scrumptious with milky creamy flavor.
- Garnish with almonds, pistachios, or desiccated coconut making it super tempting to eat.
How to Store
Bread halwa can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight glass container for 3 to 4 days. You can eat it cold but it tastes so good if you microwave it for a minute.
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Materials
- 4 slices bread
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- ¼ cup Sugar (Brown/white)
- 2 tsp Almonds Ground
- ⅓ cup Water
Instructions
- Roast the nuts on slow heating pan to make it crunchy and nutty in flavor.
- Cut the bread slices in pieces.
- Toast bread slices with the help of ghee on low flame to make it cripsy. Take out and keep aside.
- Now in same pan, add water and let it boil.
- As the water starts to boil, add sugar and mix well using rubber spatula.
- Simmer the sugar until it starts to get thick.
- Now add toasted bread slices in sugar syrup and mix well.
- Gradually add ghee in bread and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Keep stirring to fold the bread while cooking.
- As the bread starts to change color and seperatate oil in pan then it's ready to serve.
- Add almonds in halwa and mix well.
- Garnish with almonds.
Notes
- Toast the bread slices as it will add a nutty, sweet, and toasted flavor in halwa.
- Monitor the ratio of sugar and water to make sugar syrup. Especially if you are using sweet bread.
- The role of sugar syrup consistency and thickness is important to create the formation of halwa. If there is more syrup in halwa then bread will be more sweet and runny in texture. In the same way, if there is less sugar syrup then it may be hard. Use the semi-thick syrup that bread should fully absorb.
- Don't prefer oil to make this halwa.
- Don’t overcook the halwa otherwise, it left a burnt taste.
- To make it tastier, you can sprinkle a pinch of cardamom powder.
- Bread halwa with milk powder has a different taste as compared to making halwa with water.
- Cooking halwa on low heat with ghee makes a perfect flavor that pairs so well with nuts.
- If you are using leftover bread then microwave for a minute before use to make it soft and spongy.
- Roasted nuts make a perfect flavor and crunch in halwa that tastes so good.
- Use any type of white milk bread to make this halwa.
- Monitor the sugar content if you are using sweet bread.
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