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Paav Bhaji

Paav Bhaji...the name itself is sufficient to tickle your taste buds. You can try it as an evening snack, weekend brunch, when u get up late and time for breakfast is already gone and its time for lunch. :)

And if you come to know some friends are dropping by in the evening and haven't got rajma or chhole soaked, this is again a good option. And yes I would say an easy one, not  much culinary skill required and the result is good. Good option for freshers in the cooking world, when they want to make some chatpata stuff.

After much bragging about it, here goes the recipe:

Number of Servings: For 4 people
2  Medium-sized Potatoes ( Do not add too much potatoes, it makes Bhaji too thick)
1  Medium-sized carrot
12-15 French Bean sticks
5-6 Florets of Cauliflower
1/4 part of a Medium-sized Cabbage
1/2 cup of boiled Peas
1/2 a capsicum
3 Medium-sized Tomatoes
3 Medium-sized Onions
1 clove of Garlic grated or paste
1/2 inch piece of Ginger grated or paste 
( If you use chopped ginger and garlic the taste doesn't spread evenly in the Bhaji)
1 Green Chilly chopped
Lemon Juice
3 Teaspoons of Paav Bhaji Masala
Salt
1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
Oil or Ghee for frying.

In case you have one or the other vegetable missing you can still go with the recipe or you can replace it with any other vegetable piece available in your kitchen like brinjal, pumpkin etc.

Burger Buns ( Usually 2 Buns per person is sufficient, but still u should bring extra as u can eat later on with leftover Bhaji making it a burger)

Process:
1. Cut potatoes, carrots, beans cauliflower, cabbage in small pieces and boil them with a glass of water, salt and turmeric.
2. In the meanwhile your vegetable are getting boiled, chop capsicum, onions and chillies in small pieces.
3. Puree the tomatoes with blender or grate them with grater leaving their skin. 
4. If you are using a pressure cooker, boil the vegetables for 3 whistles and if you are doing it in microwave at least 15 minutes.
5. Check if the veggies not boiled enough to get mashed completely then boil more. Mash the vegetables completely using a big spatula. Don't worry if you overboil the veggies as anyways you have to mash them.
6. Now heat a pan ( better it is if its a flat pan with sides of smaller height, so that you can fry the Bhaji a lot).
7. Put some oil and if u have Pure Ghee nothing better than that. Otherwise any refined oil will do.
8. When the oil is heated up put ginger, garlic and chillies. Fry for a minute. Keep the heat medium.
9. Now add onions and fry.
10. When onions have turned brown add capsicum and fry.
11. When capsicums are little bit sauteed. Do not fry them too much. They should remain crispy. Add tomato puree, add just a pinch of salt for good frying. Be careful as veggies are already salted.
12. When water is dried off from the puree add the mashed veggies. Mix it well with the puree so that colour of the bhaji changes to orange. Crush if any veggie pieces left.
13. When mixed well and you are sure no more mashing required. Add boiled peas.
14. Now fry the bhaji for 5- 10 min on slow heat and if your waist size permits add some butter while frying.
15. Now heat another pan, put some oil or butter.
16. Slit the buns into 2 as we do for a burger and brown them from both sides.
17. For garnishing put one or 2 round onion ring over the bhaji and a drop of lemon juice over that.

Now savour this recipe with your friends and family. Am sure you will love it.

Here is the pic of first Paav Bhaji, I cooked. Hope it inspires you. :)


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