Showing posts with label PavBhaji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PavBhaji. Show all posts

Friday, February 2, 2018

PAV BHAJI MASALA POWDER AND BHAJI

Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
Not understanding how to start this post. Very happy to try this at home. In this busy life, we are depending more and more on store bought food or ready to make food and these masala powders. We get ready masala powders for every food  from each corner of the world. We have become lazy and it is taking our health into a crazy world. If you are my regular follower, you have seen me avoiding ready masalas. I always tried to make everything at home from the scratch except those Chinese food. There also I tried to make home make powders whenever possible. Now I have decided to make all the powders at home. So I browsed many blogs, websites to get the recipes and collected lot of recipes. 
PAV BHAJI :  Though it is from Maharashtra, specifically Mumbai, now a days Pav bhaji has become an essential and very common street food of India.Its tangy, spicy flavor attracts everyone. Pav Bhaji is very regular food in my house. We all love to eat Bhaji even without Pav. Many times I planned to make the masala powder at home but was scare that I may not get the same taste of what we get from the shop bought powder. 
But I was wrong, I can give 9/10 marks to my masala powder as it tasted exactly the street food. Why one marks less? Because of the color factor they add into it. And one new trial was I have used Guntoor dry red Chillies where as all the recipes asked for Kashmiri dry red chilli. 

When I searched the ingredients for this masala powder, most of the ingredients are basic and same, but few demanded to add black salt, chaat powder.
After going through all the recipes, I settled down with Hebbar's Kitchen homemade pav bhaji masala powder. But here also I added more amchur powder as I felt the quantity given in the recipe is less.

I have given the recipe for powder and the bhaji also.
First Let's start the recipe for the masala powder:
I am taking exactly from the site except red chilli and aamchur powder
Makes ONE CUP OR 220 ml 
Ingredients :

4 tbsp coriander seeds 
2 tbsp cumin seeds
2 bay leaf 
10 cloves 
2 cardamom
2 inch cinnamon stick( Please take care to use the real Cinnamon(Round and spiralled, as what we get those flat long ones are not real cinnamon and they are not good for health.)
1 tbsp pepper
¾ tbsp saunf 
10 dried Guntoor red chili (Please use Kashmiri dry red chilli, if available, it gives the color to the powder)
1 tsp turmeric powder 
2 tbsp  aamchur powder(How I wish I could make this dry mango powder at home!)




Procedure : 
Keep all the ingredients ready.
Take a thick bottomed pan and keep it on slow flame.
Be sure you are there till the roasting is done. As if any ingredient is over roasted or burnt, the flavor is a failure. 
First roast the coriander seeds and cumin seeds on a low flame, once you get the aroma, transfer it into a plate.
Next roast the peppers and saunf. After transferring this to the same plate, add bay leaf, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon and roast for just half a minute. Take these out and add red dry chillies, roast till they you feel the aroma. Take all the roasted ingredients in the plate and allow it to cool. 
Once cool add the turmeric powder and aamchur powder,
Mix well and grind into a fine powder. 
Remove, mix well and store in a box, preferably glass one. You can store it for 3 months at least, But in my house this quantity is only for a month as i use this masala powder to make VAANGI BAATH, TAWA PULAO, EGG RICE and sometimes in the MASALA UPMA too. 

Actually, I have my old PAV BHAJI post here, but still thought of posting it once again as the vegetables used in that are different. But it is a pictorial post. Please do visit. 



Coming to this recipe, 
Serves 6 persons
Ingredients: 
To boil:
  • Potato - 4 to 6 big
  • Peas - 1 cup(I love to use dried peas, soaking it for few hours or over night and boiling them with other veggies, as I feel you get the taste of street food.)  You can use the frozen or fresh peas too. 
  • Cauliflower - 1 cup (cut into florets) Again here I always hated to add this veggie into bhaji where as all my friends loved it. I was using beans and carrot, but once when I tried this combination, even I liked the taste. But if you don't like it or it is not available you can skip it and add one more potato or peas. But do not add Beans as it gives different flavor)
  • Carrot - 1 big, cubed

To fry
  • Oil  - 1 tbsp
  • Onion - 2 big chopped
  • Capsicum - 1 big, any color
  • ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Tomatoes - 2 to 3 big
  • Tamarind paste - 1 tsp(Optional)
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Red chilli powder - 1 tsp or more if you want it spicy
  • Sugar - 1 tsp
  • Coriander leaves - handful, cleaned and chopped finely to garnish
  • Fresh butter or Amul butter - 1 tbsp to garnish



Procedure : 
  • Take potatoes in a  cooker vessel. Add water to cover the potatoes.
  • Take the peas(if using soaked ones), carrot in another vessel. Add little water. 
  • Keep it in a cooker and allow 3-4 whistles.
  • Till it gets cool,
  • chop the onions, tomatoes and capsicum or bell pepper
  • Open the cooker and take out the potatoes. Peel and mash it with the potato masher.
  • Mash the boiled peas also.
  • Heat oil in a wide thick bottomed vessel. I use another cooker. 
  • Add the onions when oil is hot, cook till it changes its color. 
  • Add ginger-garlic paste and saute it. Add chopped tomatoes(even puree will be ok). Mix well and cook till the raw smell of tomato goes.
  • Add the capsicum and florets, Mix well and allow it to cook till the capsicum turns soft. 
  • Now add the fresh bhaji masala powder, salt, turmericpowder and red chilli powder , tamarind paste. Mix well. Cook for half a minute. 
  • Now add mashed potatoes and peas. Add little water. Mix well. close the lid and cook for two minutes. 
  • Add some more water( around 2 cups). Add sugar. Mix well again and cook for 3-4 minutes. Open the lid and check the taste. Adjust the seasoning. Cook for another few minutes. Sprinkle fresh coriander and a tbsp of fresh butter. Keep it aside to serve. 
AND THE TASTE WAS JUST AS PERFECT AS THE SHOP BOUGHT MASALA POWDER. 

To serve we need :
Per plate:
Pav - 2, toasted both the sides with little butter
Onion - 1 small
Fresh coriander - 1 tbsp
Lime - a quarter piece.
Butter - 1 to 2 tbsp

Take a serving bowl or plate.
Add the bhaji. Garnish with butter, onion and fresh coriander. 
Serve with pav and lime. 






Please check some more similar recipe from my blogging friends:


pav-bhaji from Sapana of  CookingWithSapana
Mumbai Pav Bhaji from Jayashree of Ever Green Dishes
Pav Bhaji from Nayna of simplysensationalfood and
Pav Bhaji from Avin of The Yellow daal


Keep smiling, 

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Pav Bhaji

Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
One of my favorite food for evening, for lunch, for dinner or at 12 midnight! My daughter loves it too, and its her favorite when her friends come home or she wants to take something special to her school to share with her friends.
I try to make it often, as it got lot of vegetables, but with one drawback i.e Pav which is made of Maida. If I learn to make pav with whole wheat flour, then Pav Bhaji is the healthiest for kids.

Giving the recipe with step by step photos,
Ingredients:
Potato - 3 to 4 big
Carrot - 1 medium, cleaned and chopped,
Beans - 12 to 15, cleaned and chopped
Peas - 1/2 cup(I did not put, as it was not at home)
(the choice of vegetables is as per your taste. you can add cauliflower, cabbage or you can use only potatoes)
Boil the potatoes, carrot, beans and peas in a cooker. I keep potatoes in one vessel and other vegetables in another vessel and give 3 whistles.
Peel the potatoes. Smash it and keep it aside.
Drain the water from vegetables and smash it.
For Bhaji,
Onion - 2 big, finely chopped
Tomato - 2 big, finely chopped
Capsicum - 1 big, finely chopped
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp 
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Ready made PAV BHAJI Masala - 2 tbsp or more as per your taste, but if you put more, it becomes bitter.
( I use Mother's Recipe or MTR)
Oil - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Lime juice - 1tsp
To serve,
Pav - 6 to 8
Butter  to roast the pav
Onion - 1 finely chopped
Fresh Coriander - finely chopped, 1 tbsp for each plate
Lime - cut into quarters(one for each plate)
Butter - 1 tsp for each plate


Heat oil in a thick kadai. Add onions and fry till it changes its color. Add ginger garlic paste. Fry to remove the raw smell.  Now add capsicum. Fry for a minute. Now goes the tomatoes. Add PAVBHAJI masala, chilly powder and  fry for 2 minutes. Add boiled vegetables and potato. Mix well. Add the salt, lime juice and sugar. Add one cup of water.

Cover and boil for 5 minutes.
Open and adjust the seasoning and thickness of the gravy.
Bhaji is ready.
For Pav :
Cut the pav in the middle. 
Heat tawa. When its very hot, Add butter and spread it.
Keep the pav on it and toast it both the sides.



Pav and bhaji is ready to serve.
Its always good to have the plates with partitions to enjoy the pav bhaji.(you get the plastic plates also in the market)
Arrange the plate like below. 



This serves for 4 kids.
Sending this to 
sra's(Sara's Corner) ongoing event, 
 (Monthly Mingle an event started by Meeta)


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