Pressure Cooker Pav Bhaji Recipe

Easiest Recipe for Pav Bhaji

Today, let me show you how I make this crowd-pleaser of a Maharashtrian fast food – pressure cooker pav bhaji. Let me show you a quick and easy recipe on how to make tasty street style pav bhaji with its amazing blend of aromatic spices and flavours.

This colourful and popular vegetable-based street food served with buttered and lightly toasted soft pav or bread rolls would also make a great party dish. If you want to learn how to make pav from scratch, do check out my step-by-step recipe and video on Goan pao or ladi pav as pull apart bread rolls are also called.

Pav bhaji has an assortment of colourful everyday vegetables, but an extra-ordinary taste. So do give my easy recipe a shot. Another colourful street food also made with pav is the Gujarati Dabeli Pav that’s also worth checking out.

Ingredients

3 medium-size potatoes (350g)

½ cup cauliflower florets (100 g)

⅓ cup green peas (60g)

4 medium-size tomatoes (300g)

2 tbsp oil

1 tbsp + 2 tbsp salted butter

3 medium-size onions

½ tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp crushed garlic

¼ tsp turmeric powder

1 large capsicum (120g)

2 ½ tsp Kashmiri chilli powder

1 ½ tbsp pav bhaji masala

¼ cup chopped coriander

1 ½ tsp lime juice

Salt (Approx. 1 – 1 ¼ tsp)

Topping

Chopped onion

Chopped coriander

Lime juice

Pav (pull-apart bread rolls)

Some butter

Procedure

1. Pressure cook the cauliflower florets, peeled and chopped potatoes, and green peas under pressure for around 10 -12 minutes. Mash the cooked vegetables with a potato masher.
2. Chop and purée the tomatoes in a mixer grinder.
3. Finely chop the capsicum.
4. Heat the oil and 1 tbsp butter on medium heat. Add the finely chopped onions and sauté till they soften and just begin to brown.
5. Add the cumin seeds, crushed garlic, turmeric powder, and tomato purée, sauté everything again. Let the tomato cook for around 2 minutes.
6. Add in the puréed vegetables. Add the rinsing of the vegetable vessel (around ¾ cup water).
7. Then, mix in the Kashmiri chilli powder, pav bhaji masala, and the chopped capsicum.
8. Stir in the chopped coriander, lime juice, salt, and sugar.
9. Taste the pav bhaji and adjust the seasonings.
10. Finally, thin the pav bhaji a little if necessary with a little water, and then add in around 2 – 4 tbsp of butter.
11. Heat a little butter in a pan, and add a little chopped coriander to it. Then slice the pav and fry these lightly in the oil on both sides, till the chopped surface starts browning.
12. Serve the steaming hot pav bhaji in a plate, and top it with a sprinkling of chopped onion, chopped coriander, and a little freshly squeezed lime juice. Enjoy it with the buttered bread.

Enjoy!