Healthy Vegetarian Pav bhaji

Pav bhaji is very popular street food in Mumbai, its spicy mashed vegetables cooked with butter and served with buttery pav(bread). I love to make pav bhaji because my kids don’t like vegetables but for their health it’s important to have vegetables in their meals. So, i give them vegetables in form of pav bhaji, they love pav bhaji as they cannot separate vegetables in bhaji ????.

Pav bhaji is very way to make. Here is step by step instructions to make pav bhaji followed by Ingredients.

Ingredients:

• Potato peeled and chopped 2 cups
• Cauliflower chopped 1/2 cup
• Green beans 1/2 cup(optional)
• Carrots 1/2 cup
• Green peas 1/2 cup
• Green bell paper (capsicum) nicely chopped 1/2 cup
• Pav bhaji masala
• Onion 1 medium chopped.
• Tomato chopped 2 cups
• Ginger and Garlic paste 1 tsp
• chopped coriander 1 tbsp.
• Pav bread 6 pieces.
• Lemon juice 1/2 tsp(optional)
• Red chilies powder 1 tsp (prefer Kashmiri lal Mirch powder for good color as well)
• Butter
• Salt to taste

Instructions:

• Washed chopped potatoes, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots and put in pressure cooker all together with a cup of water and salt.
• let vegetables cooked for 10 minutes on medium heat for 5-6 whistles. Vegetables will become soft.
• Turn off the flame and cool down vegetables little bit and mash them with masher. Keep it aside.
• Heat 1 tbsp butter in a pan and add chopped onions in it and caramelized till it change color. Add ginger garlic paste, salt to it and sauté for 1 min.
• Add chopped capsicum and cook for 2 mins. Now add chopped tomatoes and cover it for 4-5 mins for tomatoes to cook and soft on medium heat. Mix well and let all water to be vaporized and it will become thick paste consistency.
• Add pav bhaji masala, red chili powder and mix well. cook for about 1 minute to incorporate all spices all together.
• Now mix all meshed vegetables to mixture and mix properly, add water as per the consistency you like. I don’t like thick consistency, so I add 3/4 cup hot water now to mix all spices with vegetables and cook for 5 mins on low- medium flame. Add 2 tbsp butter on top and mix well, cover it for 2 more minutes to incorporate well.
• Add chopped coriander and 1 tbsp butter on top and cover with lid. Stitched off the flame.
• Cut pav horizontally in 2 pieces. On big heavy base pan or skillet spread 1 tsp of butter and sprinkle pinch of pav bhaji masala, toast pav on it. It will give nice masala a flavor to pav.
• Pav bhaji is ready to serve.
• On serving dish add hot bhaji and some lemon juice optional and mix well, top with 1 tsp butter. Place pav in serving plate and garnish with lemon slices and salad aside.