Pav Bhaji 🥗🥘 Recipe

Pav Bhaji Recipe

Mumbai street Special

Preparation time ___15 minutes

Cooking time_____25 minutes

Serve ____3 pax
Recipe blogger__Chef Prabhakar Prajapati

Ingredients:

2 medium Potatoes (approx. 1½ cups chopped)

1/2 cup Green Peas (fresh or frozen)

3/4 cup chopped Cauliflower (approx. 1/4 head of cauliflower)

1/2 cup chopped Carrot (approx. 1 medium)

1 large Onion, chopped (approx. 3/4 cup)

1 tablespoon Ginger Garlic Paste

2 medium Tomatoes, chopped (approx. 1¼ cup)

1/2 cup chopped Capsicum (approx. 1 small)

1½ teaspoons Red Chilli Powder (or less)

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder

1 teaspoon Cumin-Coriander Powder, optional

1 teaspoon Readymade Pav Bhaji Masala Powder

1 teaspoon Lemon Juice

Salt to taste

2-3 tablespoons Ghee

Butter for serving

2 tablespoons finely chopped Coriander Leaves

8 Pav Buns, for serving

Method

1- Take all the vegetables listed in the ingredients. Wash them in running water and then cut into small pieces.

2- Transfer chopped potato, cauliflower,carrot,and green peas in to a 2-3 litr capacity pressure cooker. Add 1/2 cup water and salt to taste.

3- close the pressure cooker with a lid and cook over medium flame for 2 whistle. Turn off the flame. Open the lid after pressure release naturally. It will take around 5-7 minutes.

4- mash the boiled vegetable gently with potao masher until little chunky texture .

You can mash cooked vegetables into a texture you like_ with small chunks or smooth with no chunks at all.

The texture of your Bhaji would depend on how you mashed the veggies.

5- Heat 2-3 tblspn of ghee in a pan over medium flame . Add chopped onion and ginger garlic paste. Sauté until onions translucent.

6- add chopped capsicums, chopped tomatoes,and salt

7-  sauté until tomatoes and capsicums turn soft.

8- add 1half tea spn of red chilli powder,1/4 tspn turmeric powder, 1tspn cumin and coriendco powder and ready made pav bhaji masala.

9- stir and cook for a muminu.

10- add 3/4 cup water mix well and cook for 2-3 minutes.

11- add boiled and mashed vegetable and 1tspn of lemon juice.

12- mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes taste for the salt at this stage and add more if required. Turn off the flame. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well. Bhaji is ready for serving.

13- cut the pav buns horizontally into halves. Heat tava over medium flame . Add a tblspn of butter and place halves pav buns over it.

Shallow fry both side until light brown spots appears. Transfer to the serving plate , shallow fry remaining pav.

14- transfer prepared bhaji to a serving bowl and garnish with a cube of butter and chopped coriander leaves .

Serve Hot with butter roster pav buns.

15- serve with chopped onion and lemon
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