Pav Bhaji | Mumbai Street Style Pav Bhaji | Easy recipe of pav bhaji

 Cooking Time: 30min (for 4 people)

Ingredients:

Item	Quantity
Potato	5 in Quantity (Medium size)
Green peas	1 cup
Onion	2 In Quantity
Tomato	2 In Quantity
Carrot	1 In Quantity
Beetroot (Optional)	1/2 In Quantity
Capsicum	2 In Quantity
Pav Bhaji masala	1 and 1/2 Tablespoon
Hing or Asafoetida	1 Teaspoon
Green chilli (Optional)	2 in Quantity
Ginger Garlic paste	1 and 1/2 Tablespoon
Chopped Coriander	3 Tablespoons
Mustard seeds	1/2 Tablespoon
Cumin seeds	1/2 Tablespoon
Turmeric powder	1/2 Tablespoon
Red Chilly powder	1 Teaspoon
Curry leaves	7 to 8 Leaves
Lemon juice	1 Teaspoon
Salt	As per test
Oil or ghee	4 Tablespoons
Butter	1 Tablespoon
Pav or any kind of salted bun	16 in Quantity

Recipe: 

1. Let's begin with making the delicious bhaji or curry of pav bhaji. First, peel off the potato, and wash other veggies also. Cause, we are going to use the water remaining after this cooking. We need to cook potato, green peas, carrot, beetroot in cooker till it gets totally cooked. 
2. Finely chop the onion, capsicum, green chilli and tomato. 
3. Take a pan and add oil in it, after heating it up, add the mustard seeds, let them crackle, add cumin seeds, chopped onion, chilli, curry leaves and capsicum.
4. Fry it till onion get a little brown. Add tomato, stir it till tomato becomes soft.
5. Add pav bhaji masala, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, hing or asafoetida, ginger garlic paste and mix it well. Fry it for a min, we are not making it brown, but we need to cook them as well.
6. Now, its time to add the cooked ingredients, add potato, green peas, carrot and beetroot. Mix it well and smash them in the pan itself, by the smasher or the spoon, whatever is available.
7. We use the beetroot here only for the best colour, we can totally skip it or else we can add some red food colour also. Now add the water from the cooker, we need a cup of water here.
8. As per the thickness you can add more or less. Add salt and fresh chopped coriander and lemon juice. This curry should be in flowing consistency.
9. Heat up the pan and add half spoon of butter and roast the pav from both of the sides. Cut the pav in between, before toasting it and add some butter inside also. Woohooo pav bhaji is ready to eat. Serve it with some chopped onion, lemon and main butter on top of bhaji.

Tips:

1) Add a pinch of red chilli powder and a spoon of bhaji in butter, while roasting a pav will give you the exact street-side test, try it once.

2) Shortcut will be - add the tomato, potato and green peas at a time in the cooker. Make the masala till step:3, add the cooked ingredients and you are done, no need of capsicum and carrot.

In this delicious plate, we will get about 450 calories. Lot's calories 🙆 but it also contains nutrition. Don't worry just go for a walk after having it, just fun! 

Pav bhaji is the best option when you are hungry and want some tasty food. It's one of the testy Indian street food and available in all the restaurants.

Its origins are in the state of Maharashtra. In Mumbai, there is more fun to have it at beachside stalls. We can also call it as King of Indian street food. 

Nowadays you got types of Pav bhaji also there, like cheese pav bhaji, masala pav bhaji etc. But the basic idea is to remain the same. We have added lots of vegetables in it, so its also a good source of a nutritious diet.

In a party like birthday, housewarming, car shopping and for many other occasions, this is the perfect menu in Maharashtra. People love it for lunch and dinner also. It's the smart choice of these many occasions and also healthy too.

How it is healthy?

Simple, we have added lots of vegetable in here. It's also the source of making children and adults eat the veggies, which they usually not prefer. So, if you hate some veggies, add them in pav bhaji and get a wonderful result of the effort. 

Hope you guys will enjoy the recipe a lot. But don't forget to comment us your experience of pav bhaji.