Pav bhaji

SERVING SIZE – 3-4

INGREDIENTS:

•Pav – 6 nos
•Onion (medium) – 1 no
•Tomato – 1 no
•Tomato sauce – ½ cup
•Ginger (finely chopped) – 1 tbsp
•Garlic (finely chopped) – 1 tbsp
•Potato – 2 cups (Peel the skin chop into small pieces)
•Cauliflower – 1 cup (Cut in to small pieces)
•Carrot – ½ cup (chopped)
•Beans – ½ cup (chopped)
•Frozen peas – 1 cup
•Red chili powder – 2 tsp
•Coriander powder – 2 tsp
•Cumin powder – 1 tsp
•Garam masala – 2 pinch
•Dry mango powder / Amchoor powder – ¼ tsp
•Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
•Oil – 1 tbsp
•Butter – 1 tbsp
•Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
•Hing – 1 pinch
•Salt – to taste
•Coriander leaves – few
•Lemon juice – 1 tbsp

PREPARATION:

•Cook Potato, Cauliflower, Carrot, Beans, Frozen peas ,turmeric powder, salt and water (enough water to cook) for 2 whistles in the pressure cooker. After the cooker has cooled down, mash the contents using potato masher.

•Take a heavy bottom pan, heat the oil and butter. Then add cumin seeds and hing, stir it well. Add chopped onion, ginger and garlic. Let it cook (low to medium heat) until oil separates and the raw smell of the onion, ginger and garlic is gone.

•Add the chopped tomatoes and cook until oil separates. Then add tomato sauce and cook until the oil separates. Then add red chili powder, coriander powder, amchoor powder, cumin powder, garam masala. Mix it well.

•Add the cooked – mashed veggies, salt and some water and mix it well. Let it cook for couples of minutes and switch off the stove. Finally add the lemon juice and mix it well.

•Garnish with coriander leaves.

•Toast the pav/bun with butter on both sides using griddle/pan.

•Serve it hot with toasted pav/buns and it tastes so great.