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Prep time
20 minutes
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Cook time
40 minutes
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Serves
5
Author Notes
Pav bhaji is Indian comfort food at it's best. Bread (pav) fried in butter is served with vegetables (bhaji) cooked with fragrant spices that taste like heaven reincarnated in a frying pan and will make your kitchen smell like an Indian market -- in a good way. —Aysha | The Malabar Tea Room
Ingredients
- For the bhaji
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350 grams
cauliflower, chopped into small florets
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125 grams
carrot, finely chopped
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300 grams
potato, finely chopped
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25 grams
butter, plus more for serving if desired (Preferably Amul butter)
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1 tablespoon
vegetable oil
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150 grams
onion, finely chopped
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4
cloves galic, crushed
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1 teaspoon
red chili powder
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1/2 teaspoon
turmeric powder
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500 grams
tomato, finely chopped
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1 teaspoon
pav bhaji masala
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1/2 teaspoon
black salt
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Salt to taste
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1/3 cup
cilantro, finely chopped
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Juice from 1 lime
- For the pav
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15
hot dog buns cut crosswise, or dinner rolls cut through the middle
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75 grams
butter
Directions
- For the bhaji
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In a large pot, add the cauliflower, carrot, and potato. Pour enough water to cover the vegetables by an inch, and bring to a boil. Once the water boils, lower the heat and let it simmer until the vegetables are very soft, about 25 minutes. Set aside.
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Heat the butter and oil in a large pan. Add the onion and garlic and sauté until the onions are transparent, about 5 minutes.
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Add the chilli and turmeric powder to the pan and give it a stir to mix well. Add the tomatoes, and simmer till the oil separates.
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Add the boiled potatoes, carrots, and cauliflower the mix. Add the pav bhaji masala and black salt then mash the vegetables using a heat-proof spatula or a potato masher.
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Let it cook for another 5 minutes and add salt if needed, then take it off the heat.
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Just before serving, add cilantro, butter (optional) and lime juice. Serve hot with the warm pav.
- For the pav
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Generously butter the buns on the exposed side and fry it , buttered side down, on a pan kept on medium flame. When golden brown, flip over and fry for a minute or two.
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Repeat with the remaining buns.
An Indian food-writer with a penchant for cookbooks with obscure ingredients, Aysha spends most of her time adapting recipes from the world over in her small-town south-Indian kitchen with her mother, and recording the successful experiments at www.malabartearoom.com. When not tinkering about in the kitchen, she can be found reading up on possible Game of Thrones theories that will bring back Jon Snow.
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