Description
Veg like potatoes/cauliflower mashed gooey, stir-fried with massive butter and special spices. Eaten with bread (Pav) griddle-baked in butter.
Restaurants serving Pav Bhaji (Mashed Veg Curry and Bread, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Mixed veg
- Butter
- Bread(Pav)
- Onion
- Lemon
- Pav Bhaji Masala
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients]
- boiled potatoes, 100g cauliflower,
- ripe tomatoes, 50g green peas, 100g butter,
- tbsp Pav Bhaji Masala,
- Pavs (fluffy bread), 1/
- chopped onion, 1/
- lemon.
- Heap boiled veg onto the stall's star—a giant gleaming black griddle (Tawa) exceeding 1m in diameter.
- Gripping a special metal masher with both hands, hitting the griddle rhythmically 'Clang-Clang-Clang!', thoroughly mash and fry until veg shapes completely vanish into a gooey paste (Bhaji).
- Dump a giant butter chunk here 'like it's your parent's sworn enemy', massively sprinkle special bright red Pav Bhaji Masala, and boil the veg and spices bubbling like magma in a sea of butter.
- In the griddle's empty space, generously butter the cross-sections of bread (Pav) baking them fragrantly golden. Serve the bright red mashed curry with raw chopped onions and lemon, scooping the curry with piping hot butter-soaked bread—a sinful B-grade gourmet driving Mumbai nights wild.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Pav Bhaji Masala、Cumin、Red chili
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Butter rolls (excellent as bread sub)
Pairing
Limca(Lemon soda)、Cola
Trivia
[Hardcore] Sometimes called 'world's tastiest veg dish', but its true identity is 'a dish to eat butter'. The 'Clang-Clang!' rhythm of the vendor hitting the griddle is Mumbai's night BGM.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Submerge bread deep into the curry sea, making it absorb butter oil to the limit, then stuff it in with onion crunch!
Allergen
Wheat, Dairy