Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Pav Bhaji Recipe | Easy Mumbai Street Style Pav Bhaji Recipe is a vegetarian indian street food, mumbai snacks, street food made with + 1 tbsp butter, mato, and peas / matar in about 40 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Category: snacks, street food
- Cuisine: indian street food, mumbai
Ingredients
for bhaji:
- 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp butter
- 3 to mato (finely chopped)
- ¼ cup peas / matar
- ½ capsicum (finely chopped)
- 2 potato (boiled & mashed)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp + ¼ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
- 1 tsp + ½ tsp pav bhaji masala
- 1 tsp + 1 tsp kasuri methi / dry fenugreek leaves
- 2 tbsp + 1 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chop ped)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 onion (finely chopped)
- ½ lemon juice
- 3 drops red food colour (optional)
- water to adjust consistency
to toast pav:
- 8 pav / bread roll
- 4 tsp butter
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp pav bhaji masala
- 4 tsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
Method
- Firstly, in a large kadai heat 1 tbsp butter and add vegetables. cook and mash well.
- Add 1 tsp chilli powder, ¼ tsp turmeric, 1 tsp pav bhaji masala, 1 tsp kasuri methi and 2 tbsp coriander leaves.
- heat a tbsp of butter and add ¼ tsp chilli powder, ½ tsp pav bhaji masala, 1 tsp kasuri methi.
- also add 1 tbsp coriander leaves, 1 tsp ginger garlic paste, 1 onion and ½ lemon juice. saute well.
- now add 3 drops of red food colour and mix well.
- boil and mash for 5 minutes adjusting consistency.
- Finally, serve pav and bhaji as pav bhaji.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
