Hot and soft Pav buns served with scrumptious buttery bhaji masala. The delicious bhaji is prepared with mixed vegetables, spicy special pav bhaji masala and loads of butter makes it finger-licking good.Usually, for bhaji, cauliflower, green peas, beans are the basic vegetables used along with the main veggie potato. Today I used capsicum also along with these.
Ingredients
Vegetables used2 cups potato
1 cup green peas
1 cup capsicum
1 cup beans
1 cup cauliflower
Other ingredients5 tbsp butter as per choice
2 big onions
2 green chillies
1 tbsp gg paste
3 large tomatoes
¼ tsp turmeric powder
2 ½ tsp pav bhaji masala
½ tsp chilli powder
1 ½ tsp salt as per taste
Coriander leaves
2 cups water
Method* Clean and chop all the vegetables of your choice into small pieces.
* Also, chop onions, green chillies and tomatoes.
* Prepare ginger garlic paste if you don't have in stock. Using paste is better than chopped ginger and garlic as we are going to mash the bhaji at last.
* Heat butter in a pressure cooker, add onions and saute well until they become transparent.
* Add green chillies, saute and add ginger garlic paste.
* Cook ginger garlic well for few minutes to remove the raw flavor.
* Now add tomatoes and cook them soft.
* Add capsicum, beans, cauliflower, green peas and a large cup of potatoes.
* Put turmeric powder, pav bhaji masala powder and chilli powder.
* Mix everything together, add water, cover with the lid and pressure cook for 6 whistles minimum.
* Let the pressure settle down, open the lid, mix required salt and some more bhaji masala and heat again.
* Mash well and nice using a potato masher or a hand blender when the bhaji is still hot.
* Switch off and garnish with coriander leaves.
* Add a blob of butter before serving with soft pav buns, raw onions and coriander leaves.
* How to roast Pav buns:
* In a tawa, heat some butter with a pinch of bhaji masala.
* Slice the pav buns in the middle, fry for two mins on both sides.
* Serve hot with bhaji.