Pav Bhaji and Snow..

Well, they go together!!! Its a snowy day ... What more you want more than Pav Bhaji in a snowy day. Its heavily snowing in the eastern side of the United states. They have predicted winter storm today. If it is raining in India, we can go out and have hot pav bhaji in the street corner but its not possible here :-(

So , As my family loves pav bhaji, I created and even my child in the womb also had it. She liked it. I could sense that!!! (Mother knows her child very well before she/he born).






The recipe is a very traditional one followed in mumbai.Its not necessary to include lots of vegetables as I see in many blogs. Its simple and easy too. Thanks to my dear friend shilpa.

Ingredients:

2 Big onions chopped finely
3 Tomatoes chopped finely
1 spn Ginger- Garlic paste
3 Potatoes ( Boiled and mashed nicely)
1.5 Capsicum ( Chopped small and finely)
3/4 cup of frozen peas
2 heap spns of Pav Bhaji Masala
3/4 spn of Red Chilli powder
Salt
Oil

Method:

1) Heat oil in kadai, and fry the onions till it turns light brown and add ginger-garlic paste.
2) After frying, add tomatoes and fry till it mashes nicely.
3) Add Chopped capsicum and peas together and out a cup of water and close the lid.
( This will make sure that both are cooked and mashed nicely. No need to mash peas
fully.)
4)After that has been done for 10 mts, add the mashed potatoes. Potatoes act as a binding material and add another cup of water so that it mashes together so well.
5) Once you know that it has been blended well, add pav Bhaji masala and salt.
6) Let it cook for another 5 mts. and switch off the gas.
7) Atlast, take a small kadai and heat oil in it. Just add chilli powder in oil and pour it off the pav bhaji prepared in another kadai.

Garnish with coriander.

It's best served with onions, lemon ,butter and of course, don't forget pav! Either you get small sized buns in the store or as Pav in indian store.