Pav Bhaji

One of the most popular indian street food. Pav bhaji known as India's fast food on the street. Almost every corner of Mumbai street you can find pav bhaji vendors busy hitting and stirring their flat pan with the bhaji. Pav means bun and bhaji stands for vegetable dish. Simply buns served with few varieties of mushy vegetables. An ideal vegetarian meal for lunch,dinner or even tea time snack. Hot butter toasted bun served along spicy vegetable stew drown in butter, infused with all those heavenly smelling Indian spices...hmmm i'm drooling. Serve your pav bhaji with sliced onions and capsicum for that extra kick. My sister loves her bhaji with lemon wedges, a good squeeze of lemon juice is all u need to zest up the dish


Ingredients

For the Pav/Bun

12 phav/buns
4 tbsp butter


For the Gravy

1 cup carrot,chopped
1/2 cup french beans,chopped
1 cup cauliflower,chopped
2 potatoes,peeled and chopped
1 cup fresh peas
3 tomatoes,finely chopped
1 onion,finely chopped
1 capsicum,chopped
1 tsp chilly powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp cumin powder
2 tbsp phav bhaji masala
1/2 tsp dried mango powder
2 green chillies,chopped
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 cup coriander leaves,chopped
4 tbsp butter
Juice of 1 lime
Salt to taste
1/3 cup water
2-3 cups water to boil the vegetables



Methods

For the Gravy

Boil the chopped carrots,cauliflower,french beans,potatoes and peas till soft. Once done, lightly mash the vegetables. Keep aside

Melt butter in a pan, add onions and stir till transparent. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes and green chillies. Saute till the tomatoes becomes mushy

Add the turmeric powder,cumin powder,chilly powder and phav bhaji masala. Stir well. Add the capsicum and cook till the capsicum becomes soft.

Add the mashed vegetables,coriander leaves,dried mango powder and salt. Stir till all the ingredients well combined. Add 1/3 cup water and simmer the vegetables for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the lime juice.

Serve the gravy with toasted phav/buns

To make the pav/buns

Slice the pav into two.

Melt butter in a pan and toast the pav for 1-2 minutes



Notes

• Add veges to your preference for variations such as sweet corn or aubergines.

• Adjust the spice powder to your taste

• Pav bhaji masala can be subsitute with garam masala powder

• You can top your pavs/buns with grated cheese for variations