Pav Bhaji- Cook with ZAYKA CHEF RECIPE

PAV BHAJI

WHAT IS PAV BHAJI:-

Pav bhaji is a fast food dish from India. It consists of a thick vegetable curry served with a soft bread roll. Vegetables in the curry may include potatoes, onions, carrots, chilies, peas, bell peppers, beans and tomatoes. pav bhaji origins are in the state of  Maharashtra. Variants of the dish may use other bread varieties such as chappati, roti or brown bread PAV BHAJI. 

How TO Make a Pav Bhaji At Home:-

One of the most famous, lip-smacking, Buttery street food dish of India is Pav Bhaji. Today in our ZAYKA CHEF RECIPE, we’ll make Pav Bhaji And for that first, we’ll heat the pan. We'll put very little Oil, Just a little, so that the butter doesn’t burn off. And then we put in the butter. This is a dish which if cooked patiently on mild flame with loads of butter tastes that much better Alright.

 First, we add Lichen, it is also called Dagad flower also called Kalpasi and for a good Pav Bhaji this Lichen or Dagad Flower or Kalpasi adding this is very important. Beautiful. Now, we'll add chopped Onion. Chopped Garlic. Chopped Ginger. And Chopped Green Chilli. Almost everything together. Give it a nice stir. Now saute the Onions till it starts getting a little light, Brown. Nicely sautéed starting to turn brown.  At this stage we add Vegetables in it. I have chopped beans. I have some chopped Carrots. Finely grated Cauliflower. Nice stir. Now it depends upon you, the choice of vegetables that you would want to add in your Pav Bhaji.

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Do not cook the vegetables too much. Just a quick stir fry. Now, let’s move on to the spices First, we add Turmeric, Red Chilli Powder, We have Coriander powder. A good amount of Coriander is added. And Cumin powder. Now let’s just give it a quick stir. Make sure not to burn the spices. If the heat is too high just take it down. Now we add boiled and mashed potatoes.

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There it goes. All of it. We'll mix the potatoes nicely in this. We'll mix the potatoes nicely in this. Now what happens here is that the better you fry the potatoes your final product in terms of consistency in taste will be better So, Don’t just be in a hurry adding potatoes and water and say that Pav Bhaji is done. 

No Cook it. I have a potato masher here, I’ll lightly mash it with this. What happens is it removes the lumps in the potato plus even the vegetables get a bit mashed and tender. Nicely Mashed Potato along with the vegetable, now in this goes Tomato puree. I have this readymade Tomato Puree.

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Goes in. And now we’ll cook it again. At this stage, we can add some salt. And just for some extra heat, you can add a little bit of Pepper Powder. Again it’s optional. You can see the butter. Just oozing out from the side. At this stage, we’ll add some water. In fact, a lot of water. It has nicely boiled. Now we need to just allow it to cook for about 10-12 minutes.

In the meantime, we will put a lot of butter on the Pav and toast it. We have a griddle. We have this Pav which we have split from the center, so that we can nicely toast it from the inside.  Now, so that we can nicely toast it from the inside. 

Now, I have butter. It is also called Maska in Mumbai. Just put this Maska on both sides of the bread. Perfect. Hot Griddle pan. Butter side down and just press it for a while. 

Yup. Again butter side down. Don’t squeeze the life out of this Pav BHAJI. Gentle push for a while. And remove it. Now, let it toast, don’t be in a hurry to turn it around and check every now and then. Give it like 2, 3 minutes and it’ll be perfect.

In our boiling sizzling Pav Bhaji’s, Bhaji we’ll add green peas. If you want you can mash the peas as well. Personally, I like the specs of bright green in my Pav Bhaji. So I’m not going to mash it, but it’s entirely up to you. Little light layer of butter on top tells me that my bhaji is ready. Towards the end for finishing add a generous pinch of Fenugreek leaves powder.

Give it a nice stir. PAV Bhaji is done. Alright time to plate. First the Pav, it’s nice and crispy and listen to the sound of food. it’s nice and crispy and listen to the sound of food. That is what you want, the crunch along with the creaminess of that bhaji. That’s the combination that you are looking for.

The  PAV Bhaji. Look at that. There. Little bit of garnish. And always and always serve the PAV Bhaji with a Lemon veg. There. With this, you may serve chopped Onions,  some Green Chilli if you like. But for me, my perfect Pav Bhaji is done.

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