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Bread halwa is an easy dessert prepared with ingredients like milk, almonds etc, available at home. Step by step detailed pictures post.
Quick celebrations, surprise guests or special occasions? Make halwa with one of the readily available ingredients at home.
Perfect for a quick Diwali sweet fix too. Check out my otherDiwali recipesand list of easyDiwali sweetsin my website.
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About bread halwa
One of the easy, quick recipes with simple ingredients. Popular in Muslim weddings mostly if not for Double ka meetha.
It is Indianized version of bread pudding, with milk, ghee, nuts and other ingredients like almonds to make it exotic.
This dessert can be also made simple without milk, using just sugar and ghee. This is a rich version. You can increase the ghee quantity for more glossier looks of bread halwa sweet.
Texture
Since we are using almonds and milk in this recipe, it tastes rich. The texture is slightly tighter for the same reasons.
If you want more on gooey side, make sure to add more milk and enough ghee to balance. otherwise the halwa texture would not be achieved.
Recipe ingredients
I had a request from a reader to post bread halwa few weeks back. I added it to my ‘To try’ list and as usual forgot about it.
Luckily my brother-in-law got to taste bread halwa in his work place and he also got the recipe. It had bread, milk, badam, ghee and sugar as main ingerdients.
I followed the same recipe and tried this for our anniversary yesterday. Was very tensed in the beginning as I got many doubts while trying and till end I was but nervous if it will turn out good or no.
Finally I got the halwa consistency and I felt very happy and content and perfect for our anniversary celebration.
My next concern was how Vj would like it as I tried something new, but after tasting it he told immediately that he likes it.
So thank you Ashok for passing me the recipe and thank you Smitha for sharing the recipe 🙂.
Bread halwa serving suggestions
Serve this dessert warm with a generous drizzle of ghee to give a gloss. I have not added much, but
Do not under estimate by the looks of this dessert. It tastes very rich, flavorful and delicious!
Perfect for winters that will comfort you post meals on a special occasion. That too with desi ghee, it is really taken to a different level.
With all easily available ingredients! Check out my badam halwa and Shahi tukra recipe.
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Bread halwa recipe, How to make bread halwa
Bread halwa with easy ingredients available at home like milk, almonds, ghee etc. Step by step detailed picture post.
Course Dessert, Sweets
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 25 minutes minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes minutes
Author Raks Anand
Servings 6
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Cup measurements
Ingredients
- 7 Bread
- ½ cup Ghee
- 2 cup Milk
- ⅔ cup Sugar ⅔ cup=½ cup + 2 tbsp
- 8 Almonds
- 10 Cashews
- 3 Cardamom
Instructions
Cut the bread slices to tiny pieces. Heat kadai or a heavy bottomed pan with ghee. Reserve 2 tblsp of ghee for later use.
Add the bread pieces and roast it golden in low or medium flame, taking care not to turn the pieces dark in colour. It should be golden in colour, so make sure the heat is low and you turn the pieces of bread every now and then. You can toss it too.
Mean while, boil milk with sugar. Add it to the roasted bread.
Bring to boil and put the flame to low. Let it cook for few minutes and mash it as it gets cooked soft.
Grind almond, cashew and cardamom first to a powder. Then add little water to make it as a paste.
Add this paste to the cooked bread and the reserved 2 tblsp ghee. Keep mixing mashing it well until oil oozes out. If you want, you can fry few cashew and badam in ghee and add to the halwa.
Notes
- I didn’t remove the sides of the bread, and I had no problem with that too.
- Until step 6 it will look very gooey, but dont worry, once you add the cashew badam paste and ghee, it will turn to halwa consistency.
- 2 cups of milk is roughly half a litre of milk.
- I used milk bread for this recipe.
- Do not experiment with ghee quantity as it may turn sticky.
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Bread halwa method:
- Cut the bread slices to tiny pieces. Heat kadai or a heavy bottomed pan with ghee. Reserve 2 tablespoon of ghee for later use.
- Add the bread pieces and roast it golden in low or medium flame, taking care not to turn the pieces dark in colour. It should be golden in colour, so make sure the heat is low and you turn the pieces of bread every now and then. You can toss it too.
- Mean while, boil milk with sugar. Add it to the roasted bread.
- Bring to boil and put the flame to low. Let it cook for few minutes and mash it as it gets cooked soft.
- Grind almond, cashew and cardamom first to a powder. Then add little water to make it as a paste.
- Add this paste to the cooked bread and the reserved 2 tablespoon ghee. Keep mixing mashing it well until oil oozes out. If you want, you can fry few cashew and badam in ghee and add to the bread halwa.
We had it always warm. You can refrigerate and reheat when ever needed. This should keep good 3 days in fridge.
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Reader Interactions
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Ramya Sabareesan
Looks yummy. Sure gonna try this.
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sankar saranya
Tempting, feel to try soon for my kids
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Unknown
First of all wish u and ur hubby a very happy anniversary!! Yummy recipe!! Will try it soon!! From Ramya
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Nivedhanams Sowmya
Looks so delicious... I like simplicity of this halwa..
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Rajee
Happy anniversary! Bread halwa-sounds interesting! Will try........
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Varsha Rajeswaran
Happy anniversary Raji ji ! Will try this halwa soon..
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Ramya Sabareesan
Belated Anniversary wishes Raji.
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Vasudev Bhat
I have an idea apply ghee on both sides of the bread and toast the bread in a toaster till golden brown it'll be quick and easy crush and proceed as your method
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Gayathri Ramanan
Happy Anniversary...bread halwa looks gorgeous...
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Raks anand
Nice suggestion, should try it out 🙂
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Ruchi Indu
Belated anniversary wishes. Bread halwa looks cool..
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Kurinji
Belated wishes Raks!!! Halwa looks delicious...
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Atia awan
my mother used to cook this recepie.....
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asheen abdul khadar
Can I try this with brown bread ?
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hanumanmal ghosal
What I'd the caloric value?
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Premalatha Aravindhan
Yummy and delicious halwa...
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Arulpriya Mathiselvaraj
Happy anniversary... 🙂
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Arulpriya Mathiselvaraj
Can I use brown bread for this?
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Raks anand
Thank you for all wishes 🙂
Brown bread can be used but texture may differ.
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Thava
Happy anniversary
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Thava
Happy anniversary
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Arulpriya Mathiselvaraj
Hi Raji,
I tried this halwa and it came out very well. I prepared this for my sister-in-law and her family. Everyone liked 🙂
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shabu arawinth kumar
Wow super
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rock arun
Super
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Megalai
Tried this halwa today Raji. It came out perfect. The measurements you have given are very accurate. I was very hesitant to try first and during the cooking process too it looked very gooey. But a little bit of patient stirring did the magic. Your recipes never let me down 🙂
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Armstra Junoly
Your recipe is completely awesome...its taste toooooo good....all of credits goes to you.
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M@dhu :)
Hi...my milk got curdled after adding bread pieces to boiled milk..I have done 2 times..What should I do??Please let me know
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M@dhu :)
Hi..my milk got curdled after adding bread pieces to boiling milk...I have done 2 times..still same result..please let me know what should I do??
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Raks anand
Are you sure you boiling the milk? Also sometimes, if the fat (ghee) is more in the bread, it might curdle the milk.
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jenis godwin
thanks... it came out well
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Unknown
Thanks for this recipe, I tried it today and it turned out pretty good though a little too sweet for my liking 🙂
Next time will try with a bit less sugar.
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pavi thra
Omg just now I tried it came yummy my dad s so happy for tis taste Tom waiting for my fiancee result
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Praveen Kumar
looks great...can we use wheat bread for this ?
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Raks anand
Sure, you can
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Raks anand
Yes, you can
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Anjanashrikanth
Hey raks....tried this dish today and it came out extremely well.everyone liked it so much.thanks to u.pls keep posting such simple and easy dishes.
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surya teja
I dint get exact colour why??
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Raks anand
I guess it depends on the bread slice sides. If it's browned well, th ecolour might come darker
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lalita Naidu
I tried this sweet n it came very well ...tastes soooo good... My whole family likes a lot esp my kids .. it's spoon licking sweet.. thanq
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Unknown
SUPER
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Sonia
It looks good and yummy...but cutting the edges will make it easier to mash and overall uniform look...
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Ishwarya Krishnan
Hi Akka, I tried this using brown bread. Came out very well. Texture was close to that of halwa.I added half milk+ half water, still it tasted so good. Thanks for the recipe
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K
Hello,
I added 1/4 cup ghee. However, it has turned out to be stickyReply
Raks Anand
Yes, please add more ghee (1/2 cup as mentioned for this recipe) to get no sticky halwa.
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Nithya MA
My daughter had this desert in a restaurant and was asking me to prepare this for a very long time. The term halwa was a bit terrifying for me. We have stir stir and stir right. Thanks a lot for your recipe. It was not hard and tasted heavenly too. It got over the same day.Reply
Raks Anand
So glad to know dear 🙂 <3
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