Pav Bhaji Recipe

Pav bhaji is a fast food dish from Maharashtra, India, consisting of a thick vegetable curry (bhaji) fried and served with a soft bread roll (pav).

The dish originated in the 1850s as a fast lunchtime dish for textile mill workers in Mumbai. Lucky guys. Pav bhaji has many variations in ingredients and garnishes but is essentially a spiced mixture of mashed vegetables in a thick gravy served hot with a soft white bread roll, usually cooked on a flat griddle (Tava).

Most famous street food. My love for chat items started from my school days, still continuing. I used to prepare pav bhaji with readymade masala powder. But from now onwards, my own homemade pav bhaji masala powder. Easy to make and when you want to eat healthy this is the better option.

Pav Bhaji Masala Powder: 

You can store this powder in an air-tight container. The measurement I have mentioned below can be used for preparing pav bhaji 3-4 times for serving for 2. 

Ingredients 

• Dry red chilli - 8 nos 
• Coriander seeds - 3 tsp 
• Cumin seeds - 2 tsp 
• Fennels seeds - 1 tsp 
• Black peppercorns - 1/4 tsp 
• Cinnamon stick - 1/2 inch 
• Green cardamom - 2 nos 
• Cloves - 4 nos 
• Dry mango powder - 2 tsp 
• Black Salt - 1/2 tsp 

For Powder 

1. Dry roast all the spice ingredients mentioned above in low flame except dry mango powder and black salt
2. After the spices roasted well, add dry mango powder and black salt 
   
3. Remove from heat (It's enough to roast 2 minutes after adding dry mango powder and black salt) 
4. Allow it to cool down 
   
5. In a mixer, add the roasted ingredients and grind into fine powder 
6. Store it in air-tight container 
   

Bhaji Recipe :

Ingrediants : 

• Chopped Ginger garlic - 2 tsp 
• Chopped onion - 1 no 
• Chopped tomato - 2 nos 
• Chopped capsicum - 1/4 cup 
• Boiled vegetables - 1/2 cup (Potato, carrot and peas) 
• Pav Bhaji Powder - 3 tsp 
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp 
• Butter - 2 tsp 
• Chopped coriander leaves - 2 tsp 
• Lemon slices 
• Salt for taste 

For Bhaji: 

1. In a flat pan or tawa, add butter and fry chopped ginger and garlic (If you don't like to add chopped ginger and garlic you can add ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp) 
2. Add chopped onion and cook soft 
   
3. Add chopped capsicum and cook for a while 
4. Add chopped tomatoes and close with a lid and cook for 10 minutes 
5. Tomato should mash completely 
   
6. Add boiled vegetables to the tomato mixture 
7. With a potato masher, mash all the vegetables 
8. Add pav bhaji masala powder 
   
9. Add red chilli powder just to get that bright red colour 
10. Add 1/4 cup of water and cook for 3-4 minutes 
    
11. Add salt required for the bhaji (While adding salt, remember there is black salt in the masala powder) 
    
12. Add coriander leaves and butter mix well 
13. Remove from heat 

Pav Bhaji Arrangement: 

• Slit the pav with one side intact and toast in pan with butter 
• In a plate, pour in hot bhaji masala 
• Serve with Chopped onion and coriander leaves topping 
• Butter slice on the top with a lime slice 

Squeeze lime over the bhaji, dip in the pav and enjoy Pav Bhaji !!