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,
The Pav Bhaji recipe is excellent. I could not believe myself that i could do this so well.
Needless to say its all because of your recipe, the clarity with which you give instructions is very nice.
The video coverage is very well done. My husband was just enjoing the pav bhaji and he was thrilled that i did such a tasty dish
It was his favourite from long. Thanks to you.
Kavitha
Thanks so much for this recipe. It was wonderful and so simple. Your instruction is always so clear!
once i had made this but it wasn’t too good. Thankyou for sharing me your metod i’ll try it.
anand
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Hai Manjula Aunty,
Great Receipe…..Thanks a lot
Hello Manjula Aunty,
I will be nice if you can post the recipe of how to make Pav at home.
thanks
hi aunty ..thanks again. one doubt..is not needed to add onions ?
Hello Vidya, I do not use onion in my any recipe by choice.
hello i just loved your pavbaji recipie i wanted to ask that can we mix oninion and coriender chutney for ganishing ??
Pav Bhaji was very tasty. My whole family loved it.
Thanks a lot Manulaji for your wonderful work.
Hi ManjulaJi
It is so nice to watch your videos. Tonight I am going to make Pav Bhaji.
Love you lots.
Parveen
Hi,
Great recipe, the whole family loved it, and then went back for seconds. So far alll
your recipes that I have tried are all family keepers now.
Thanks for the demo and all the love that goes into the food
Fiona
hi manjula aunty
i want bhel puri recipes.
thanks