Passport & Plate - Pav Bhaji

foodie_frank — Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:33:08 GMT

Ingredients
Potatoes 400 gms
Carrots 200 gms
Cauliflower 200 gms
Green peas 150 gms
Tomatoes 4 medium size
Spring onions 100 gms
Butter 150 gms
Bread rolls 6
Coriander leaves 2 tsp
Pav bhaji spice 2 tsp
Lime 1
Ginger-garlic paste 2 tsp
Water 2 cups
Salt to taste

How to prepare this recipe
Method:

Boil the potatoes until they are soft. Blanch the cauliflower and carrots in boiling water. With a potato masher mash the potatoes, cauliflower and carrots.

Chop the capsicum, spring onions and tomatoes very fine and keep them separate.

Take a large frying pan and while it’s hot add 50 gms of butter and fry the spring onions. Then add the capsicum and stir fry it till its soft. Then add the chopped tomatoes and peas and let it cook for 5-7 minutes until it’s soft.

Now add the mashed potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, ginger-garlic paste and the pav bhaji spice and 2 cups of water.

Keep on stirring the mixture and mashing it with the potato masher until its soft.

Finally add the chopped coriander leaves and salt.

Serving:
Slice the bread rolls in the middle into two. Heat up a fry pan and add 50 gms of butter. When the butter begins to melt toast the bread in it and mop up the butter.

Serve the mashed vegetable, with a blob of butter in the centre of it and decorate it with chopped spring onions and squeeze some lime juice over it.

The story behind this recipe
I have travelled to Mumbai many times and I have seen lots of people enjoying this dish. It's a simple vegetarian dish by itself and very reasonable priced. Thousands of street vendors make a living by feeding many thousands of people. Since this dish is cooked over a large hot plate, I have never heard anyone falling sick from eating this dish.

SRI_LANKA

Passport & Plate - Pav Bhaji