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Mumbai Pav Bhaji

5 from 4 votes
Pav Bhaji is a tasty dish ideal to serve as a filling meal. It is served with pav bun.
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Course: dinner ideas, evening snacks
Cuisine: Maharashtrian
Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

  1. Cut the onion finley.
  2. Chop the tomatoes.
  3. Make ginger garlic paste and keep it aside.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Add the tomato pieces to it . Continue cooking. Add the capsicum pieces also.
  7. Put pav bhaji masala and red chilli powder to it. Add turmeric powder and salt. Let the flavours mingle emitting a good aroma.
  8. Add the mashed vegetables to it. Adjust the consistency by adding some water to it.
  9. Let cook for sometime. Set it aside.
  10. To serve:
  11. Heat a pan. Cut the pav and smear some butter.
  12. Toss them on the skillet  until it is lightly brown in colour.
  13. 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.