Pav Bhaji | Street Style Pav Bhaji | Snack Recipes
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Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4-6 people
 
Spicy, buttery and filled with flavour, street style pav bhaji
Ingredients
  • 3-4 medium sized potatoes
  • 1 medium sized diced carrot
  • 10-12 finely chopped green beans
  • 10-12 finely chopped cauliflower florets
  • ½ Cup fresh/frozen green peas
  • 1 finely chopped green capsicum/bell-pepper
  • 2-3 finely chopped tomatoes
  • 4 Tbsp butter
  • ¾ Tsp jeera/cumin
  • 1 Tbsp garlic/ginger/green-chilli paster
  • 1 finely chopped onion
  • ¾ Tsp lal-mirch/kashmiri red chilli powder
  • 1½ Tbsp pav bhaji masala
  • Salt to taste
  • Finely chopped coriander to garnish
  • 2 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 6-8 pav
  • Butter to toast
Method
  1. Finely chop all the vegetables and keep them ready
  2. Steam carrot, beans, cauliflower, green peas till soft
  3. Boil potatoes, peel them and set them aside
  4. Heat butter in a pan, reserve a Tbsp of butter to add at last
  5. Add jeera, let it splutter, add garlic/ginger/green-chilli paste and saute for a few seconds
  6. Next add finely chopped onions and green capsicum/bell-pepper and fry
  7. Once onions and capsicum/bell-pepper soften a bit, add chopped tomatoes and saute till the tomatoes soften
  8. The masalas can go in next, lal-mirch and pav bhaji masala and mix well
  9. With a potato masher, mash tomato mixture very well
  10. Season the masala with salt as per taste
  11. Add the steamed vegetables and keep mashing
  12. Next add boiled and mashed potatoes
  13. Keep mashing the bhaji till it becomes thick and even
  14. Lastly, simmer for 5-10 minutes. Add a dollop of butter and chopped coriander to garnish. Sprinkle some more pav bhaji masala
  15. Squeeze in lemon juice, bhaji is now ready
  16. Halve the pav buns and toast them with lot of butter till golden
  17. To serve, place toasted pav bins in a plate. Add bhaji on the side. Garnish with little more butter and some chopped onions and some lemon wedges on the side
Notes
Pav must be fresh and soft

Don't hold back on butter. Pav bhaji demands a lot of it

Wash cauliflower florets really well with warm salted water
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/pav-bhaji/