Pav Bhaji

Pav Bhaji is a popular Mumbai street food. Pav comes from a Portuguese word for a small roll of bread whereas Bhaji in Marathi/Konkani refers to a curry.

Recipe:

Ingredients:
Vegetables (Potato, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrot, capsicum, eggplant, green chillies) - all chopped
Oil
Cumin Seeds
Onion - 1
Ginger & garlic - crushed
Turmeric powder
Food Color (red)
Green Chillies
Tomato - 1
Coriander powder
Amchur powder
Red chilly powder
Kasuri Methi
Hing
Butter
Coriander leaves
Water
Lemon juice


For the Bhaji:

1. Boil the vegetables until they become soft and mashy.
2. In a pan, add butter, cumin seeds and onions.
3. Once onions are cooked, add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, green chillies and tomato.
4. Once the tomato is cooked, add coriander powder, amchur powder, red chilly powder. Add water to prevent the mixture from becoming dry.
5. Add Hing and Kasuri Methi.
6. Next add the boiled vegetables and mash them in the gravy.
7. Add butter and garnish with coriander leaves.
8. Add some food color to get a reddish color.

Serve hot with the pav fried in butter and a side of onions, sev and lemon.