Easy Bread Halwa Recipe

September 27, 2023

Bread Halwa is extremely popular sweet served during marriage occasions and on special occasions. To make bread halwa, bread cubes is fried in ghee and cooked with milk and sugar. You may make this easy bread halwa in lower than half-hour. Learn how you can perfect bread halwa recipe with step-by-step pictures and video.

Bread Halwa

This Easy Bread halwa is one thing which i desired to try for very very long time. I even have never tasted this before, but i’m sure it should taste good and much like wheat halwa. Because it is Diwali i made a decision to offer this a go and it turned out to be super yummy.

This recipe could be very easy and basic. You simply need a handful of ingredients which you may have already got available. This halwa is really easy and it gives a superb amount of halwa with just few slices of bread. So should you make an even bigger batch, you’ll be able to store this in fridge and at any time when you would like, you’ll be able to heat it again in microwave or in a small pan and luxuriate in hot or warm. I prefer to make my wheat halwa, cornflour halwa, carrot halwa for sudden sweet cravings.

About Bread Halwa Recipe

Halwa is a well-liked Indian sweet made during Diwali occasions. Bread halwa is getting so popular nowadays. Specially it’s served during marriage functions and special occasions.

Halwa is made with bread, ghee, sugar, milk and dried fruits and nuts. Traditionally bread pieces are fried in ghee individually. Sugar syrup is made until it reaches one string consistency. Syrup is poured over the fried bread together with crumbled khoya, milk powder or milkmaid. It’s cooked until the halwa leaves the edges of the pan. Bread halwa is able to serve in lower than half-hour.

My version is easier. Fried bread is cooked in milk, sugar is added and cooked till halwa consistency is reached.

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Bread Halwa Ingredients

Bread – Use white bread slices for making this halwa. Brown bread may be used as an alternative of white bread. Be sure you remove the crust out of the bread. The color of the bread halwa is set by the color of the fried bread. So fry the bread in generous amount of ghee till golden brown and crispy.

Sugar – If you happen to are using milkmaid when making bread halwa, add less sugar.

Milk – Full fat milk is added into fried bread. Bread is cooked in milk until it disintegrates and thickens.

Ghee – Bread needs to be fried till crispy in ghee which reinforces the flavour.

Dried Fruits & Nuts – cashews and kishmish is common ingredient utilized in halwa. You may add any nuts as you favor.

Cardamom Powder – optional may be skipped too.

top angle of bread halwa served on a white plate garnished with cashews

Bread Halwa in Three Easy Steps

Frying Dried Fruits & Bread

Remove the crust of the bread and chop it into small pieces. Heat ghee in a pan, add in cashews and fry till golden.Add in kishmish and fry. Remove it and put aside. Now add in chopped bread within the ghee and fry till golden brown.

Cooking Bread in Milk

Now pour milk over fried bread and blend well. Mash the bread into the milk and cook till it thickens. You will have to maintain mashing the bread into the milk. The bread will disintegrate and begin to thicken.

Adding sugar

Add in sugar and blend well. Keep cooking till it starts to depart the edges. Finally add a tblspn of ghee and blend well. Add in fried nuts and cardamom powder and blend well. Serve.

bread halwa served on a white plate garnished with cashews

Expert Suggestions

The color of the bread halwa is set by the color of the fried bread. So fry the bread in generous amount of ghee till golden brown and crispy.
In case your bread halwa looks too thick, you’ll be able to add more milk.
Any nuts and dried fruits may be added. Fry them in ghee and use.
You may add 3 tbsp of sweetened condensed milk or khoya into the halwa for more wealthy taste.

close shot of bread halwa served on a white plate garnished with cashews

The best way to Make Bread Halwa (Step-wise Pictures)

1)Take bread slices. I used white bread. You need to use brown bread as well.

white bread slice on a yellow cutting board

2)Remove the crust off. Bread crust doesn’t cook evenly when making halwa. So I prefer to remove the crust. You may add the crust in food processor and make breadcrumbs.

3)Cut it into small pieces.

4)Fry cashews and kishmish in ghee, strain and put aside.

5)Add bread within the ghee

6)Fry the bread till golden brown.

7)That is the color you’re going for.

bread fried till golden brown and crispy in ghee

8)Pour in milk.

9)Mix bread with the milk so the fried bread disintegrates and cooks in milk.

10)Keep cooking till the bread thickens.

11)Add in sugar.

12)Mix well until the sugar melts completely.

13)Cook this halwa on medium high heat till it starts to depart the edges of the pan.

14)I prefer to add a tbsp of ghee in my bread halwa and cook till it looks halwa consistency.

15)Add ground cardamom.

16)Add in fried nuts and dried fruits.

add fried nuts and dried fruits to bread halwa

17)Mix well.

bread halwa cooked till correct consistency

18)bread halwa done and able to serve.

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