My Bread Halwa memory is related to Andhra Bhawan Canteen, CP, New Delhi, where I tasted this dessert for the first time decades ago. I had a small conversation with the man who was serving us there, and he told me that it’s a Hyderabad specialty. However, the Hyderabad version that they make at weddings or other celebrations is a bit different than what I make at home. Along with the other ingredients, that version also calls for Khoya, saffron, Rosewater, etc.
The Bread Halwa I’ve been making for years now is more like that canteen version, which can be whipped up easily with some basic ingredients yet tastes divine every time. The fun part is after tasting one cannot recognize that the Halwa is made of Bread, it looks like Suji Halwa, tastes way better than a slice of ghee toasted, sugar sprinkled bread, but that’s another childhood memory and cannot be compared with anything else. You must make Bread Halwa if you’ve never tried making it before, my doable recipe will help you, I promise! 🙂
Bread Halwa
Bread Halwa is a delicious dessert made with Bread, Ghee, and Dry fruits. It’s a great way to use leftover bread slices.
Ingredients
- 8 / 242g- Bread Slices
- 1¾ cup- Milk
- ½ cup + more- Ghee / Clarified butter
- ⅓ cup- Dry fruits
- ½ cup- Sugar
- Cardamom powder from 6 Green Cardamoms
Instructions
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Use white, brown, or milk bread for making this Halwa. Leftover bread slices work great for this recipe.
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Cut off the sides from each bread slice, you can keep the sides for making bread crumbs.Tear the bread slices into cubes by using your fingers, keep aside.
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Heat ghee in a deep frying pan/kadai (nonstick preferably). Fry the bread cubes over medium heat until golden brown in colour. At the time of frying the bread cubes if you feel that more ghee is needed add accordingly. A little more ghee in Halwa never harms.
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Add milk and sugar to the fried bread cubes, and mix well. Let the bread soften for 5 minutes over low-medium heat, keep stirring in-between.
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Next keep on stirring continuously for 10 minutes over low heat so that the bread cubes dissolve well and a thick paste forms. You would want to add more milk at this stage, but please don’t add as it’s not required.
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Add cardamom powder and dry fruits, mix well and keep cooking the Halwa over low-medium heat until it starts leaving ghee from the sides.
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Serve Bread Halwa warm, enjoy!
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Store the rest of the Halwa in an airtight container, and consume within a week.
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