Pav Bhaji Recipe | Mumbai Style Pav Bhaji

Pav Bhaji is one of Maharashtra's most loved street foods, especially in Mumbai. This combines pav (bread) and bhaji (curry). The spices used in preparation make the curry or bhaji unique and divinely tasty.

Mumbai Style Pav Bhaji

This curry can be used with roti, chapati, or rice, but it tastes great when served with Pav and lightly fried with butter.

Pav Bhaji is generally a popular street food, but you can also get it at expensive restaurants in Mumbai, Pune, or any other part of the state. This mouth-watering dish is so irresistible that you can never ignore having it at any time.

Mumbai Sea Beach has food corners (known as "Chaupati"). Many shops serve super delicious pav bhaji. Chaupatis are very famous; if you visit Mumbai, you will find it a "must-go" place. Of course, it's a place of natural beauty, but with that, it's a hub of all street foods. The food stalls are also hygienic.

But being extra cautious about hygiene, I love to make such dishes at home. I'm a huge fan of home-cooked food and try to make all the variations for my family. We can customize the spices and butter according to our diet.

Returning to the spicy and yummy recipe, if you are not a health freak or even on a cheat day, add ½ - 1 tsp butter to this vegetable curry.

This is a mixed vegetable curry. We use potatoes, cauliflower, capsicum, tomatoes, and onion for this preparation. If you're making it for kids, you can also add carrots. 

For this dish, the vegetables are cooked and minced/mashed completely. They are then cooked with the aromatic spice called "Pav Bhaji Masala."

Pav Bhaji Masala

These are commonly available in any grocery store or supermarket. Even if you don't get it nearby, you can always try Amazon's online options. You can try any of the brands you like. Otherwise, you can also make your spice mix and store it for future use.

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Mumbai Street-Style Pav Bhaji Recipe

Pav Bhaji Recipe | Mumbai Style Pav Bhaji In 30 Minutes

Ipsa Faujdar

Pav Bhaji is a delicious street food made from mixed vegetables and served with Pav or bread. This is a popular and one of the loved food in Maharashtra.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 50 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, Street Food

Cuisine Indian, Maharashtrian, West Indian

Servings 4 People

Ingredients

  

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• 5 - 6 Potatoes (large) boiled
• 8 - 10 Cauliflower florets (large) boiled
• 1 cup Green Peas
• 2 Green Capsicum (medium) finely chopped
• 3 Onion (large) finely chopped
• 6 - 7 Tomato (large) Pureed
• 3 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
• 2 tbsp Butter
• 2 tbsp Ghee/ clarified butter
• 2 tbsp Refined Oil
• 3 - 5 tbsp Coriander leaves finely Chopped
• 2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
• 3 - 4 tbsp Pav Bhaji Masala
• 1 tbsp Salt or as per taste

For Serving

• 4 tbsp Corinader leaves finely chopped
• 4 tbsp Onion finely chopped
• 2 Lemon cut into quarters
• 10 - 12 Pav or as required
• 5 - 6 tbsp Butter

Instructions

 

• Boil potatoes in a pressure cooker. Cook for 5 - 6 whistles till potatoes cooked completely.
• Similarly boil cauliflower and green peas in a cooker for faster process. cook for 2 - 3 whistles maximum. You may use grated cauliflowers but that will be little time consuming. You can also boil all the vegetables in one go.
  
• Mash all the vegetables completely with help of a masher.
  
• Heat one heavy bottom kadai or frying pan. Add oil and ghee. Once hot add 1 tbsp butter to it. add ginger garlic paste. Saute well till it's smell goes off. You can close the lid for some time as it will splutter.
  
• When done add finely chopped onion and saute till it's translucent and cooked well.
  
• Add finely chopped capsicum to it. Cook for another 3 minutes.
  
• In the meanwhile Puree the tomatoes to a fine paste.
  
• Pour the tomato puree to the kadai and mix well.
  
• Cook till tomatoes are cooked well and leaves oil.
  
• Add dry spices (red chilli powder, pinch of turmeric powder, pav bhaji masala) to the pan and stir well for 1 minute.
  
• Add ¼ - ½ cup water and bring it to a boil.
  
• Add all boiled and mashed veggies and mix well.
  
• Mix them nicely.
  
• Add 2 cups of water and let it simmer for some time. Adjust water as per the consistency you need.
  
• Season with salt. Adjust red chilli powder and pav bhaji masala as per taste. simmer for 5 - 7 minutes.
  
• Add finely chopped coriander leaves, 1 tbsp lemon juice and mix well.
  
• Check the consistency. It should not be very thick or dry or very thin.
  
• Garnish with a handful of finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves.
  

For Serving

• Heat 1 tbsp butter in a pan.
  
• Keep pav on butter and lightly shallow fry them for 1 minute till turns light brown in color.
  
• Serve with added chopped coriander leaves and onion on top of the bhaji or curry. Serve the bhaji and pav combo with 1 tsp additional butter for better taste.
  

Notes

Skip adding extra butter if you don't want extra butter. Add tomatoes generously for better taste. Consistency should be medium thick.  

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