Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pav bhaji. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pav Bhaji is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pav Bhaji is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Pav bhaji recipe with video & step by step photos - A delicious blend of mix veggies cooked in butter & spices, served with soft butter tasted buns. Pav is an Indian bread and bhaji is mashed vegetables. Pav Bhaji Recipe with video and step by step photos.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pav bhaji using 22 ingredients and 40 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pav Bhaji:
- Make ready 3 medium sizes potatoes
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup chopped cauliflower
- Get 1 cup chopped carrot
- Take 1 cup green peas
- Prepare 1/3 cup chopped french beans
- Make ready 2 1/2 cup water for pressure cooking
- Take 3 tablespoonsl amul butter
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Take 1 large onion
- Get 2 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1-2 green chillies
- Prepare 1/2 cup finely chopped capsicum
- Get 2-3 large tomatoes
- Take 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon kashmiri chilli powder
- Prepare 2-3 tablespoons pav bhaji masala
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Prepare to taste salt
- Get 12 pavs for serving with the bhaji
- Prepare 1 medium to large onion
- Prepare 1 lemon
- Take 3-4 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
Accompanied by warm buttery pan-toasted rolls. Pav Bhaji. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Pav Bhaji is a popular Indian street food. Pav Bhaji is made with potatoes and vegetables cooked in a tomato base, and enjoyed with pav or dinner rolls.
Steps to make Pav Bhaji:
- Cooking veggies for bhaji
- Rinse, peel and chop the veggies. You will need cauliflower, carrot, potatoes french beans. You can also add veggies of your choice.
- Add all the above chopped veggies in a pressure cooker. Also add green peas (fresh or frozen).
- Add water.Now turn over the pav and rotate them on the tawa so that the second side absorbs the butter. Add more butter if required.
- Pressure cook the veggies for 5 to 6 whistles or on medium flame.
- When the pressure settles down on it's own, open the cooker and check if the veggies are cooked well. You can even steam or cook the veggies in a pan. The vegetables have be to cooked completely.
- Making bhaji for pav bhaji
- Heat a pan. Add butter.
- As soon as the butter melts, add cumin seeds.
- Let the cumin seeds crackle and change their color.
- Then add onions.
- Mix onions with the butter and saute on a low to medium flame till the onions translucent.
- Then add ginger-garlic paste. You can also crush ginger and garlic
- Mix and saute till the raw aroma of both ginger and garlic goes away.
- Then add chopped green chilies. mix well.
- Now add tomatoes. mix very well.
- Then begin to saute tomatoes on a low to medium flame
- Saute till the tomatoes become soft and mushy. This takes about 6 to 7 minutes on a low to medium flame.
- When the tomatoes have softened, then add capsicum Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add turmeric powder and kashmiri red chilli powder.
- Then add pav bhaji masala. mix very well.
- Add the cooked veggies. add all of the stock or water from the pressure cooker in which the veggies were cooked. mix very well.
- Then season with salt as per taste.
- With a potato masher, begin to mash the veggies directly in the pan.
- Keep on stirring occasionally and let the bhaji simmer for 8 to 10 minutes.
- If the bhaji becomes dry and then add some more water. The consistency is neither very thick nor thin.
- Add salt, pav bhaji masala, red chili powder or butter if required.
- When the bhaji is simmering, you can fry the pav so that you serve the pav with hot bhaji.
- Frying pav for pav bhaji
- Heat a tawa or a shallow frying pan. Keep the flame to a low and then add butter.
- When the butter begins to melt, add a bit of pav bhaji masala. You can skip pav bhaji masala if you want
- Mix the pav bhaji masala very well with a spoon or spatula.
- Then place the pav on the butter.
- Rotate the pav all over the melted butter so that the pav absorbs the butter.
- Now turn over the pav and rotate them on the tawa so that the second side absorbs the butter. Add more butter if required.
- You can turn over and toast them more if required. Then remove in a plate and keep aside.
- Serving pav bhaji
- Now take the bhaji in a serving plate or a bowl. Top it up with one to two cubes of butter. You can add more butter, if you like.
- Place a side of finely chopped onions, lemon wedges and finely chopped coriander leaves. Or you can sprinkle onions, coriander leaves and lemon juice directly on the bhaji.
- Serve bhaji with the lightly pan fried and buttered pav. Pav bhaji is topped with chopped onions, coriander leaves and the lime or lemon juice is squeezed on the bhaji while eating.
We will make it in both Instant Pot and Stovetop. Pav Bhaji - a spicy curry of mixed vegetables (bhaji) cooked in a special blend of spices and served with soft buttered pav (bread bun shallow fried in butter), is any Indian food lover's dream. Pav Bhaji is the ultimate street food from Mumbai, a city that's always close to my heart. It's a mad mash of potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cauliflower, green peppers, green peas and spices, and you. Pav Bhaji is a a very popular Indian fast food dish common in Mumbai.
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