Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pav bhaji. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pav Bhaji is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Pav Bhaji is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. You may have to go to a nearby Asian Indian store to get the 'Pav Bhaji Masala' that is the special spice to bring the flavor (Masala means spice). Bhaji is the vegetables cooked with spice.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pav bhaji using 22 ingredients and 40 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pav Bhaji:
- Prepare 3 medium sizes potatoes
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup chopped cauliflower
- Take 1 cup chopped carrot
- Make ready 1 cup green peas
- Take 1/3 cup chopped french beans
- Get 2 1/2 cup water for pressure cooking
- Prepare 3 tablespoonsl amul butter
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 large onion
- Make ready 2 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
- Make ready 1-2 green chillies
- Get 1/2 cup finely chopped capsicum
- Take 2-3 large tomatoes
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon kashmiri chilli powder
- Prepare 2-3 tablespoons pav bhaji masala
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Make ready to taste salt
- Get 12 pavs for serving with the bhaji
- Get 1 medium to large onion
- Take 1 lemon
- Prepare 3-4 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
Vegetables in the curry may include potatoes, onions, carrots, chillies, peas, bell peppers, beans and tomatoes. Pav bhaji is the most delicious dish through which kids can eat as many veggies as you want them to! Potatoes, tomatoes, green peas all mashed together with spices and lemon and paired with buttery. Pav Bhaji is popular Indian street food where dinner rolls/buns are served with spicy mashed veggies topped with dollop of butter.
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.
Street food doesn't get better than this! This Pav Bhaji Recipe is spicy, so flavorful and can be easily made vegan by replacing butter with vegan butter! 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. We will make it in both Instant Pot and Stovetop Pressure Cooker.
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