Bombay Pav Bhaji Recipe
Bombay Pav Bhaji is a delicious street food available on most of the Indian streets. It is a thick curry made with mashed vegetables like potato and tomato and is served with soft buttered bread.
Servings 4 People
Equipment
- Tava / frying pan
- Potato masher
- Saucepan
Ingredients
- 3 medium sized potatoes
- 2 to matoes finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- 1/2 big sized capsicum finely chopped
- 1 medium sized onion finely chopped
- 1 carrot peeled and finely chopped
- 1/4 cup green peas
- Coriander leaves for garnishing chopped
- 2 tablespoon Pav Bhaji Masala of any brand
- 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon Cumin/Jeera powder
- 12 Pav/Bread
- 3 – 4 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Boil the potatoes. Peel them after they cool down. Grate and keep aside.
- Boil the other vegetables and mash them slightly by hand.
- In a frying pan or tawa, add 1 tablespoon oil and 2 tablespoon butter and fry the onions till they turn pinkish.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and mix.
- Now add tomatoes and fry till tomatoes become mushy.
- Add all the spice powders and mix properly.
- Pour the mashed potatoes and the mashed vegetables. Mix properly.
- Add 1/2 cup water. If needed, add more water.
- Keep on mixing and mashing the vegetables on the tawa with the pav bhaji masher.
- Add salt to taste.
- Keep the lid covered and let it cook for some time.
- After 5 minutes switch off the gas.
- Garnish it with a blob of butter and coriander leaves.
- Slit the pav. Apply butter and fry the pav on both sides.
- Serve the hot Bombay pav bhaji with fried pav, chopped onions and a piece of lemon.
Notes
Make pav/bread at home.