Wednesday 24 August 2016

How to make pav bhaji (street food)

Pav Bhaji (Mumbai street food) 




The pav bhaji is the most popular Mumbai street food and it is also made worldwide. In this dish looks don't matter but the taste really does. Once you see it, the aroma of the dish will make your mouth water and you will have a desire to eat it. Finally share and enjoy.

Cooking tip: While cooking butter in a pan or pot, simply put 1 tablespoon of oil over the butter. This will stop the butter from burning.

Ingredients



1-1/2 cups chopped cauliflower or (cabbage) 

3 potatoes peeled and chopped

1 large capsicum chopped

1 cup boil green peas or (shelled peas)

2 onions chopped

2 tbsp pav-bhaji masala

1 tsp salt 

5 tomatoes chopped 1 

1 tbsp kasoori methi

pinch of red colour 

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

1/2 green chillies paste

5 tbsp butter 

1 tbsp chopped coriander

To serve


1 tbsp pav-bhaji masala

2-4 tbsp butter

2 tbsp chopped coriander

buns (pav) as required

Instructions


First take a pressure cooker and add a cauliflower (chopped), capsicum (chopped) and potato (chopped) with 250ml of water and cook until 2 to 3 whistles are given out (till done).

After that take a medium or large pot and heat 4 tablespoons of butter and 1 tablespoon oil. Then add onions (chopped) and cook until they become soft.

Then add ginger garlic paste, green chilli paste, pav bhaji masala, kasoori methi, tomato (chopped), salt and cook until the tomato blends well with the other ingredients. 

Then add the vegetables we have boiled in step 1 and mash it with a masher. After that add boiled peas to it. Then sprinkle red food colour and 1 tablespoon coriander (chopped) and cook until it boils (good). Close the heat and keep it aside.

To make pav soft (delicious) and how to serve.


Take a pan and heat 2 tablespoons of butter in it, then sprinkle pav bhaji masala over the butter. After  that take the buns and press them on the butter, this will make them soft and golden. 

Take a serving plate and spread the pav bhaji on it then garnish with some mint leaves and keep a small piece of butter in the middle of the pav bhaji and keep a lemon beside the serving plate for use if necessary.

Finally share and enjoy. 







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