Wash vegetables and finely chop:
6 stringed beans
2 small peeled carrots
1 medium capsicum
2 medium onions- skin removed
4 small tomatoes
3 big cauliflower florets
3 green chillies
In a pressure cooker add chopped:
+beans
+carrots
+cauliflower
+peas (fresh/frozen)
Pressure cook for 2-3 whistles until cooked.
Make:
ginger paste
garlic paste
Boil 3 large potatoes separately in a pressure cooker with skin.
After boiling cool and peel potatoes.
Mash the pressure cooked vegetables-
+carrot
+cauliflower
+beans
+peas
+potatoes together.
Heat oil in a kadai and sauté finely chopped onions until light brown.
Add:
+ 1 teaspoon ginger paste
+ chopped green chilli
Cook until the raw aroma goes for about 45 seconds.
+ finely chopped capsicum to the above and cook until soft.
+ finely chopped tomato to the onion-capsicum mixture and cook until tomatoes turn soft.
Slightly mash everything together.
This step will take approximately 10-15 minutes.
Add:
+ 2 teaspoon of salt
+ 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
+ 5 teaspoon of pav bhaji masala.
Cook for 1 minute.
(1/2 teaspoon of pav bhaji masala will be used later)
+ mashed veggies
+ 50 ml water
+ 75 grams butter
Cook until done.
Taste and adjust the salt if required.
In a separate pan take 30 grams butter and let it melt. When hot add:
+ 2 teaspoon garlic paste
Saute until slightly browned.
Switch off the flame and add:
+ 2 teaspoon kasuri methi
+ ½ teaspoon pav bhaji masala.
Keep aside for 30 seconds.
Pour this tempering over the already prepared bhaji and mix well and add:
+ handful of finely chopped coriander leaves.
+ 1 teaspoon sugar
(this cuts through the sourness of tomatoes, rounds off the flavour and brings everything together)
Serve hot garnished with:
coriander leaves
lemon wedges
finely chopped onions.
Serve along with pav buns/burger buns/bread slices.
Slice the buns/pav buns in half and slather butter on both sides.
If using bread slice just slather butter on both sides without cutting them.
Take a pan and heat it.
Slightly brown the buttered buns/pav buns/ bread slice on both sides and serve.
P.S. For a smooth good looking pav bhaji use a hand blender in the end just before garnishing. Easy peasy way to get a good looking bhaji.
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