Mumbai Pav Bhaji
Pav Bhaji is a tasty dish ideal to serve as a filling meal. It is served with pav bun.
Ingredients
- 3 onions
- 4 tomatoes
- 3 potato
- 1.5 cup peas
- 1/2 cup cauliflower florets
- 1 capsicum
- 2 tablespoon +1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 2 teaspoon pav bhaji masala
- 1 teaspoon chilli powder
- salt to taste
- For garnishing :
- onion finely cut
- coriander finely cut
- lemon wedges
- Other ingredients:
- 12 Pav buns
- butter to spread
Instructions
- Cut the onion finley.
- Chop the tomatoes.
- Make ginger garlic paste and keep it aside.
- Chop the carrots, peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes. Check the cauliflower and cut into florets. Put all the vegetables in a separator along with green peas and cook for two whistles.
- Take butter in a pan. Add cumin, ginger-garlic paste and saute for a while. Put the onion pieces and saute for sometime until it is translucent.
- Add the tomato pieces to it . Continue cooking. Add the capsicum pieces also.
- Put pav bhaji masala and red chilli powder to it. Add turmeric powder and salt. Let the flavours mingle emitting a good aroma.
- Add the mashed vegetables to it. Adjust the consistency by adding some water to it.
- Let cook for sometime. Set it aside.
- To serve:
- Heat a pan. Cut the pav and smear some butter.
- Toss them on the skillet until it is lightly brown in colour.
- Put the prepared bhaji in a bowl, top with onion and coriander and serve with toasted pav buns.
Notes
- You need to use butter in the recipe.
- Oil can be mixed with it. Butter can be any kind, store bought or homemade.
- I have used home made.Use fresh ginger garlic paste. I used eight cloves of garlic and an inch of ginger.