Pav bhaji is one of the most popular street food and taste super delicious. Making pav bhaji is really easy as this snack recipe is really very less time consuming. This spicy blend of vegetables in tomato gravy is served with pav that is cooked with butter.
This is truly an amazing and easy innovation that is just perfect for providing a nice hot meal in hurry and one that tickles the taste buds. Prepare this mouth drooling dish for your guests or for any party or special occasion, everyone will keep craving for more. So, here’s any easy to follow recipe for pav bhaji with step-by-step pictures. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- Potatoes – 3 (300 grams)
- Tomatoes – 6 (400 grams)
- Capsicum – 1 (100 grams)
- Cauliflower florets – 1 cup (200 grams)
- Green peas – ½ cup
- Green coriander – 3 to 4 tbsp (finely chopped)
- Butter – ½ cup (100 grams)
- Ginger paste – 1 tsp
- Green chilly – 2 (finely chopped)
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Pav bhaji masala – 2 tsp
- Degi red chilly powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1.5 tsp or to taste
Instructions
- Cut the florets of cauliflower.
- Boil and peel the potatoes.
- Cut the capsicum and discard the seeds and chop them finely.
- Also, wash the tomatoes and chop the finely.
- Heat a vessel with chopped cauliflower, green peas and 1 cup of water in it. Let it cook till the veggies become soft.
- Heat a pan with 2 tbsp of butter in it. Add ginger paste, chopped green chilly, chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder and coriander powder. Mix it well.
- Add chopped capsicum into the masala. Mix everything really well. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Now add boiled cauliflower and green peas to the masala. Cook them well while mashing it together with the masala.
- Then crumble the potatoes and add it directly to the masala along with salt, red chilly powder and pav bhaji masala. Mashing the bhaji with the masher.
- Add ½ cup of water into the bhaji masala. Cook and keep mashing the veggies.
- Further add some chopped green coriander and 1 tsp of butter into the bhaji. Turn off the flame. Transfer the bhaji to a bowl.
- Cut the pav bread from between keeping one end joint. Put some butter on tawa and place the pav bread over it and roast it from both the sides. Transfer it to a plate. Similarly, toast few more pav breads.
- Garnish this tempting bhaji with some butter and coriander sprigs and serve it steaming hot along with pav breads. Enjoy!