Pav Bhaji is one of the most delicious Indian food. It is also favorite food of Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor. This mouthwatering dish is best if you want a fulsome and spicy meal. It mainly includes potato, onion and mix vegetables which are boiled and mashed up to make a vegetable paste. Its highly flexible as you can choose vegetables according to your own taste. Serve Pav Bhaji with salad of your choice, butter and a dash of lemon. It’s ideal for lunch and dinner. Your family and guests will just love it.
Ingredients:
1 tbsp Cooking Oil
1 cup Cauliflower Florets
2 medium size Potatoes (diced)
½ cup Carrot (diced)
1 cup Tomato paste
½ cup Green Peas
2 tsp Pav Bhaji masala
½ tsp Kashmiri Red chilli powder ( gives nice color to pav bhaji)
1 tbsp Butter (for sautéing and some for toasting pav)
½ cup Capsicum (finely chopped)
½ cup Coriander (chopped)
1 cup Onion (finely chopped)
Salt according to taste
¼ tsp Heeng (Asafetida)
1 tsp Garlic paste
1 tsp Ginger paste
1 tsp Turmeric powder
Instructions
1. Put pan on the gas. Now add potatoes, cauliflower, carrot and green peas in the pan. Then add ½ tsp salt which will help in boiling them quickly. Now add 1 cup of water and mix them well. Cover the pan, turn on the gas and cook for around 10 -12 min on medium high heat.
2. After 10 min check if they are boiled enough by poking them with a spoon. Now gently mash them with a masher until it becomes like a paste.
3. Now in a different pan heat oil and butter.
4. When it is medium hot add onion, capsicum, heeng and saute it for few minutes till they are half cooked.
5. Then add ginger and garlic paste. Now cook till onion and capsicum are soft enough.
6. Now add tomato paste, salt according to taste, turmeric powder, chili powder and pavbhaji masala and mix them well.
7. Cook it on medium heat till all water dries out.
8. Now our tomato paste is ready. Its time to add mashed vegetable paste and ½ cup of water because we don’t want it to be too thick. Now mix it well and mash it a little bit.
9. Now cover it and cook for 10 mins on medium flame. Keep stirring in between to avoid sticking to bottom.
10. Bhaji is cooked now, add chopped coriander and mix it.
11. Now it’s time to toast the pav.
12. Put tawa on heat, when it is hot put heat to medium and apply 1 tsp of butter. Then sprinkle a little bit of pavbhaji masala, red chili powder and little bit of coriander on top of butter.
13. Now place pav on butter mixture, toast and flip till they turn golden brown.
14. And that’s it super delicious Pav Bhaji is ready!
Tips & Tricks:
1. If you want it fast and easy you can also boil vegetables in a cooker.
2. If you don’t have butter you can just use oil.
3. You can add red/orange food color to give pav bhaji a nice color.
4. Add lemon to pav bhaji while eating to increase taste.
5. You can also mix onion and tomato salad in pav bhaji, instead of eating separate.
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