Home-made Pav & Pav Bhaji

Pav Bhaji and pav, most famous mumbailites food...Pav and pav bhaji is a fast food dish native to Maharashtrians and is very popular nowadays in most metropolitan areas in India..Pav bhaji is a curry prepared basically with veggies and which is highly rich in carbohydrates while pav bread is prepared with all purpose flour and yeast which served along with pav bhaji..The origin of both these dish is traced from the textile mills in Mumbai..the mill workers used to have lunch breaks to short for a full meal and a light lunch was preferred by the emplyees for a heavy work..A vendor created this dish using pav, but roti or rice was replaced with pav, while the curry with pav bhaji, this reminds the food of mill workers and with time this dish found its place into restaurents and spread all over Mumbai, now u can find this dish many indian fast food restaurants in Asia..These pav bhaji and pav can be consumed as a snack, between lunch and dinner but nowadays this pav and pav bhaji are being consumed as a light evening meal and also as party dish..I have prepared home made pav bread and pav bhaji for our yesterday dinner and both together turns out prefect and we enjoyed having this mumbai delicacy and am sending this dishes together to RCI-Mumbai guest hosted by Lakshmi, event by Lakshmi and to EC's WYF-Speciality Food..

Pav:

1cup Maida flour

2cups Bread flour

1tsp Active dry yeast

1tsp Sugar

1tsp Salt

1cup Luke Warm water

3tbsp Oil

Few drops of milk

Add the yeast, sugar and salt to the luke warm water, give a stir and let them sit aside for 5minutes until the yeast turns foamy..Take the flours in a large bowl and add the foaming yeast water and oil together to the flour and knead everything as soft dough, arrange the dough in a large greased bowl and keep in a warm place upto 2hours until the dough doubled their volume..

After an hour, punch down the doubled dough and knead again, make 6-8medium sized balls from the dough and arrange one by one in a greased mould and let them side again for an hour in a warm place...After an hour; preheat the oven to 350F..brush the breads with milk and bake in middle rack for 15-20minutes until a golden brown crust forms over the bread...Put off the oven and take off the mould and let them cool.

Pav Bhaji:

3cups Cooked and mashed potatoes

2nos Onions

2nos Tomatoes

1/2cup Carrot (grated)

1/2cup Green peas

1/2cup Cauliflower (shreded)

1/4cup Bellpepper pieces

1/2cup Cabbage(shreded)

1tsp Ginger garlic paste

1/4tsp Green chilly paste

1tsp Red chilli powder

2tsp Pav bhaji masala

1/2tsp Coriander powder

1/2tsp Cumin powder

2tbsp Coriander leaves

Salt

Oil

Butter

Heat enough oil and fry the ginger garlic paste and green chilly paste until they turns slightly brown, add the chopped onions and saute till transculent, add immediately the tomatoes, salt and cooking until the tomatoes turns mushy..

Now add the grated carrots, shredded cabbage, shredded cauliflower, green peas, bellpeppers pieces and saute for a while, once they are half cooked, add the mashes potatoes, red chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, pav bhaji masala to the cooking veggies, stir everything well and cook until the oil comes out, cook everything minutes in simmer..

Add a cup of water to the veggies and cook everything until the bhaji turns thick..Put off the stove, garnish with raw onions & coriander leaves and toasted Pav..

To Serve:

Heat a tsp of butter in a hot pan, cut the pav as two pieces and toast the pav with the hot butter, serve along with onion and coriander leaves garnished pav bhaji..

Enjoy!!!!!!