Pav bhaji

Pav bhaji recipe

As the name suggests, pav bhaji is a dish with bread/bun and mixed vegetable gravy. Being a very common and most wanted dish nowadays this can be made easily at home. 

Prepation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Pav buns - 4

Butter

Onion - 2

Tomato - 3

Potato - 2

Carrot - 1 (small)

Beans - 5

Peas - 1/4 cup

Ginger - 1 small piece

Garlic - 4 to 5 cloves

Chilli powder - 1tsp

Pav bhaji masala - 1tsp

Salt - as needed

Oil - 2tbsp

METHOD:

Chop the vegetables (potatoes, carrot and beans) into cubes (before chopping potatoes and carrot, peel the skin).

Pressure cook these vegetables along with peas by adding a little water and leaving it for 2 whistles.

Chop onions and tomatoes, grind them along with garlic and ginger. You can also add green chilli if you want it to be little more spicy.

Heat oil in a pan and add the paste to it. Cook it till the raw smell goes off. Add chilli powder, salt and pav bhaji masala. If you are adding capsicum, no need to boil it, instead you can add it after the paste is added. Once the raw smell goes off, add the boiled vegetables.

Saute for few minutes. Now add little water and cook it covered for 10 minutes. You can mash the bhaji a liitle with the ladle. 

Add coriander leaves for topping

Now the bhaji is ready to be served.

For the pav:

Cut the bun into two halves. Toast it in a pan by adding butter, till it turns golden brown. Now the pav is ready to be served.

Cut onions into very small pieces and lemon into half. Add this to the bhaji as a topping before you serve it.

Note:

1. You can add capsicum also.

2. Instead of grinding the onions and tomatoes, you can cut it into cubes and add them. In tat case, first add oil, then add chopped onions. Once the onions turn golden brown add the ginger garlic paste. Then add the tomatoes and cook till its mushy. Add masala powder and the vegetables.