Pav Bhaaji

Will any spicy hunt say NO for a yummiest Pav Bhaaji??!! Com'on buddies, have a try!!

Ingredients for Bhaaji:

1. Onion: 1 Big
2. Tomato [b'lore]: 2 medium
3. Diced carrot, beans, peas, capsicum, cauliflower, potato: 1 bowl [each 50 gms makes a bowl, cauliflower: a small cup of florets, potato: 2 medium]
4. Butter: 2 blobs
5. Ginger-Garlic paste: 1 tspn
6. Oil: 2 tspn
7. Cheese: 1 cube for garnish [shredded]
8. Salt: as req
9. Sugar: a pinch
10. Pav Bhaaji Masala: 2-3 tspn [I used Everest brand]
11. Coriander powder and Jeera powder: each 1/2 tspn
12. Turmeric Powder: a pinch
13. Kashmiri Mirch powder: 1/2 tspn
14. Fresh lemon: few drops to squeeze on the top
15. Water: To boil veggies
16. Coriander leaves and Kasoori methi: a few for garnishing

Preparation of Bhaaji:

1. Pressure cook all the veggies [peel the potato and boil] by adding some water [until the veggies are soaked], a pinch of salt, sugar and turmeric powder and give 8 whistles.
2. Heat a kadai/pan, add 2 tspn of oil and 3 tspn of butter [from 2 blobs]; add finely chopped onions, tomatoes and saute well for 3 mins.
3. Add ginger garlic paste and saute the mixture well until oil leaves the pan.
4. Add coriander powder, jeera powder, kashmiri mirch powder, pav bhaaji masala and mix them. Add little water and cook until the raw smell disappears, add 1 tspn of butter on its top and turn off the flame.
5. Open the cooker and drain the water from the veggies and add the boiled veggies to a bowl and mash them nicely using a pav bhaji masher or with hand beater/blender or using a spatula.
6. Once nicely mashed, heat the onion tomato gravy kadai again and add these mashed veggies to it.
7. Maintain medium flame from now on.
8. Add water and the remaining butter little by little and stir constantly until the consistency of the bhaji comes [refer pic], add required salt for the dish, mix it and turn off the flame.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves and kasoori methi. Squeeze few drops of fresh lime [nearly 1 to 1.5 tspns of lime water].
10. At the top, take a cheese cube and shred them like garnishing and close the pan/kadai with a lid and after 5 mins, mix them well and serve hot with pav buns.

Ingredients for Pav:

1. Pav buns/ordinary buns : as req. [I used ordinary buns]
2. Butter: to toast

Preparation of Pav:

1. Cut the buns into halves.
2. Heat a tawa/cradle. Apply some butter and toast well the buns on its either sides.
3. Serve hot with the Bhaaji.

Suggestions / Notes:

• Using of cheese is optional.
• You can serve pav bhajji with slices of raw onion, carrot, cucumber, tomato and lemon.
• Adding sugar is just for highlighting the taste, hence add only a pinch.
• Preparation is very simple if the veggies are done. So plan and cook the veggies initially.
• Mashing of veggies is most important. Mash them as much as you can. Giving 8 whistles will make an easy path for you mash them without any strain.
• Have it as a weekend or a party dinner!

Dellllllliiiiiiicious PAV BHAAJI is ready!!!!!!