Pav Bhaji – Mumbai Style Butter Street Food

Pav Bhaji is a spicy mashed vegetable curry served with buttered pav (bread rolls). It’s one of Mumbai’s most famous street foods and a total crowd-pleaser!

🧾 Ingredients:

🔸 For Bhaji:

• 2 potatoes (boiled & mashed)

• 1/2 cup cauliflower (boiled & chopped)

• 1/4 cup green peas

• 1/2 cup capsicum (chopped)

• 2 onions (finely chopped)

• 2 tomatoes (chopped or pureed)

• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste

• 2 tbsp butter

• 2 tbsp oil

• 1½ tsp pav bhaji masala

• 1/2 tsp red chili powder

• Salt to taste

• Water as needed

• Fresh coriander & lemon for garnish

🔸 For Pav:

• 4 ladi pav

• Butter to toast

• Pinch of pav bhaji masala

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👨‍🍳 Instructions:

1. Cook Veggies:
   Boil and mash potato, peas, cauliflower. Keep aside.

2. Make Bhaji:
   Heat oil + butter in a pan. Add onions, sauté till golden.
   Add ginger-garlic paste, cook 1 min.
   Add tomatoes, capsicum & cook till soft.
   Add spices, mashed veggies & little water. Mash everything together.

3. Simmer:
   Cook bhaji for 10–15 mins, mash well, adjust salt & consistency.

4. Toast Pav:
   Cut pav in half, toast on tawa with butter & pav bhaji masala.

5. Serve Hot:
   Serve bhaji topped with butter, onions, coriander, and lemon wedge.

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"This buttery, spicy pav bhaji is my all-time favorite street food. I hope you enjoy making it as much as I do eating it!

 – Zainul 👨‍🍳"