For Making Simple Sugar Syrup-

Take 2 cups of sugar in a pan and add 2 1/2 cups of water to it.

Boil it till bubbles are seen. Switch off the gas and let the syrup cool at room temperature.

How to Proceed:

Boil Milk in a pan add, sugar, coconut powder, and boil till it thickens.

Pre-heat the oven at 160 C for 10 minutes and meanwhile do all the preparations for Um Ali.

Toast bread slices on a nonstick Tawa using ghee till the bread becomes crisp and brown. Keep them aside.

Chop all the nuts coarsely and keep them aside in a bowl.

How to Assemble:

Take an ovenproof bowl and grease it nicely with ghee. This will not allow the bread slices and the pudding to stick at the bottom.

Arrange slices of bread in the bowl. Now start adding a handful of dry fruits to it.

Next, add a generous amount of desiccated coconut and pour the simple sugar syrup equally in the bowl.

Finally, add the milk to the bowls and bake it in the oven for 12-15 minutes till it's bubbly and looks like a decadent pudding.

Once the pudding is baked, carefully remove it from the oven and keep it on the kitchen top.

Let the pudding cool for a while before consuming it. However, you can either have it hot or chill it in the fridge for 2 hours approximately till it cools down. I prefer to have it cold, but it also tastes good when you just dig a spoon into that bubbling hot pudding and wait to relish it.