Pav Bhaji
May 4th, 2009 filed under Chaat, Snacks, Subji (Vegetables)
Pav Bhaji is a favorite fast food dish in India. Pav is buns and bhaji is the mixed spicy vegetables. This is a very popular dish with roadside vendors.
Recipe will serve 4.
Ingredients:
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 cups chopped cauliflower
- 1/2 cup chopped green beans
- 1/2 cup peas
- 1/2 cup chopped carrots
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 green chilies chopped
- 2 tablespoon finely sliced ginger
- 3 medium chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon fennel seed powder (saunf)
- 2 teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (adjust to taste)
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro (hara dhania)
- 6 bread buns
For Garnish:
- 1 medium chopped tomatoes
- Few pieces of thinly sliced lemon
Method:
- Boil all the vegetables potatoes, cauliflower, beans, peas, and beans in about 1 ½ cup of water. Don’t add too much water, just enough to cook.
- After the vegetables are soft and tender, drain the excess water and mash them coarsely with a fork or potato masher.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
- Add tomatoes, green chilies, cilantro, and ginger and sauté for 2-3 minutes until pasty.
- Next add the red chili powder, fennel seed and turmeric, mix it well.
- Add mashed vegetables.
- Using a spatula, simultaneously mash and stir all the vegetables for 5 minutes.
- Add salt and two tablespoons of ghee, stir-fry for another minute.
- Add about ¼ cup of water or as needed, and let it cook for a minute.
- Turn off the heat.
- Add garam masala, and lemon juice, mix it well
- Toast the halves bun over a skillet using butter over medium heat until buns are golden brown from both sides.
- Serve toasted buns with bhaji (mixed vegetables), garnish with chopped tomatoes and sliced lemon.
Variations:
- You can use almost any vegetables to make the bhaji, but keep the potato base. You can also try vegetables such as cabbage, bell pepper, and eggplant.
- If you don’t eat potatoes, use green bananas for the base.
- For vegan replace the butter with oil.
Hi manjula auntie
u r recpies are so much easy and tasty i did lot of recpies following u r direction they come out very taste now i want make RAGDA PATTIES u will post this video recipe for me auntie
very thankfull for u r work ,this is really u make every familly so mauch happy for helping to make delicious dishes we can serve our familly my son says that was cool yammy mommy so i want say thanks to u auntie
Thank you very much Manjula aunty for all your recipes. After I tried your recipes for Rajma, pav bhaji, chole tikki, gajar halwa and some more, my husband now always tells me when I make some new things–” Manjula ben ni recipe thi karyu ne ? to to saras j hashe” means ” if you have used Manjula aunty’s recipes, it will surely taste very good”. sometimes I feel like you are one of our family member (like my mother or my aunty), whenever I need to cook something, I just refer ur site and then move forward. Thanks for making me so confident now in cooking.
I loved the video on youtube about roti making by Manjula.
I did notice that the measurements seem off.
Am I wrong or did I misunderstand?
Thanks for writing back.
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this inquiry.
hai aunty,
why didn’t u use pavbhaji masala? i have trust on ur recipies still i’m eager to know the reason.thanku.
If you read the ingredient list on the paubhaji masala box, it’s almost just like garam masala, saunf, and lemon juice. I made it this way for the first time without using the paubhaji masala and it came out really good. I was not sure, but I just gave a shot.
Also, I sauteed chopped onions in the beginning of the recipe because I do eat them and it came out great.
hai jaya,
thank u for ur reply.after u have said,i’ve seen the ingredients on pavbhaji masala.Exactly the same ingredients.Anyway,aunty is doing a great job.
hi aunte,
i like ur recipes they are really very good and we i try them they turns out great, aunte can u mail me come cake recipes to my id radhika_nare@yahoo.com
Looks yummy! Thanks for posting another great recipe. Would you please tell me where I can buy a pan like the one you use for cooking the tomato and spice mixture in this video?
Please reply. I’ve been checking daily for an answer.
This is a wok by Calphalon. If you are in the US, you can check any large department store or specialty cooking stores. You can also Google “Calphalon” and order it on-line.
Hi Anunty,
I have posted many qurries before but no luck on my request, this time can you plz teach us how to
make HABSHI HALWA, its dark brown and very soft, i hope you fullfill my receipe this time
Regards
Sandho
Sandho,
Aunty receive many, many requests for different recipes. Please be patient and don’t take it personally if she cannot reply to your specific request.
Jaya
Nice recipe. I think you should cook the vegetables in a pressure cooker. Vegetables lose their nutrients when you put them in boiling water.
You can cook vegetables without a pressure cooker too in a steamer mesh and lid on the pot. The water level is below the mesh so the vegetables cook by steam.
You can use a pressure cooker so long as the vegetables don’t overcook and get too mushy.
Hello Aunty,
What an excellent demonstration!!! Your demo always gives an impression that its very easy and gives us confidence that this won’t go wrong. The way you serve is mouth watering. Every video of yours shows your dedication and experience and flawless making of things. I wish you cook for a long time and make people happy.
Dear Manjula Auntie,
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You are awesome
My teenage daughter doesn’t like the taste of onion and garlic so she wants me to cook using your recipes and the dishes I make always turn out better than the original ones!!
Lots of best wishes to you and your fans………