Pav Bhaji



Pav bhaji


Pav Bhaji is a dish that originated in Marathi cuisine, It is a famous street food from Mumbai, Pav in Marathi means a small loaf of bread.  Bhaji in Marathi means vegetable dish. Pav bhaji consists of bhaji (a thick potato-based curry) garnished with coriander, chopped onion and a dash of lemon and pav. The pav is usually generously buttered on both the sides. It can be eaten as a snack or as a meal in itself.

Pav bhaji is my speciality. You can add other vegetables like carrot, beans,  cauliflower. etc, but i don't add them as they do take away the restaurant like taste.

 
Ingredients:

• 2 finely chopped onions
• 3 tomatoes ground into a puree
• 8 garlic cloves
• 1 inch ginger
• 3 green chillies
• 5 boiled potatoes and mashed
• 1 finely chopped capsicum
• 1/2 cup boiled peas
• 4 tea spoon pav bhaji masala
• 2-3 tea spoon red chilly powder
• 1/4 cup oil
• salt to taste

For garnishing:

• 2 table spoon finely chopped coriander leaves
• 2-3 finely chopped onions
• lemon wedges

To serve:

• butter as required
• pav

Method:

Grind ginger, garlic and green chillies together into a fine paste and keep aside.

Roughly mash the boiled peas and keep aside.

Heat oil in a vessel add the ginger, garlic and green chilly paste. Fry it till the raw smell goes off. Now add onions and capsicum, fry till the onions turn transparent.

Now add tomato puree cook for some time, then add red chilly powder, pav bhaji masala and salt. Cook till oil comes out.

Now add boiled and mashed peas and cook till oil comes out.

Add mashed potatoes and mix together properly. Keep mashing the whole mixture with potato masher, on low flame. Add water as required.

Keep on a low flame and simmer for some time. Now add 2 table spoon of butter.Mix it together.

Serve it pipping hot with pav and garnish with onion, coriander leaves and lemon wedges.

For the pav, slit open the pav from the middle. Fry them with butter from both the sides in a frying pan.

Now the Pav Bhaji is ready to be served.