Masala Pav Recipe with step by step pictures. Masala pav is a popular Mumbai Street Food dish and is made using onions, tomatoes, spice powders and pav bun. Usually served with tons of butter on top.

Mumbai Masala Pav Recipe

Masala Pav is one recipe which i wanted to try for a long time. It is a simple recipe but taste really delicious and buttery..This is one of my favourite dish and i make it quite often too.

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About this Recipe

Masala Pav Bhaji is a Mumbai (Bombay) fast food dish that consists of a vegetable curry (bhaji) cooked in tomato gravy and served with a soft bread roll (pav). While Bhaji is a traditional Indian name for a vegetable dish.

Pav or Pao is the Portuguese word for bread, which they introduced to Mumbai during their brief presence in the mid- 1500s.

This dish was created in the 1850s by textile mill workers in Mumbai. They had too short lunch breaks for a full meal, and a light lunch was preferred over a heavy one because the employees had to return to strenuous physical labour after lunch. The dish was created to meet the lunchtime needs of those textile mill workers. They required inexpensive, simple, quick-to-prepare, light, and nutritious food. This
dish was created by a vendor using items or parts of other dishes on the menu.

Roti or rice were replaced with pav, and the curries that usually accompany Indian bread or rice were combined into a single spicy concoction: the bhaji. It was also a popular late-night street food. It has since been seamlessly absorbed into Indian fast food, soaking up the butter and spicy curry that Indians adore.

This recipe is so easy to make, you need few veggies, some butter and pav buns. The main taste for this comes from the pav bhaji masala powder. You can either make your own, recipe here or use store bought ones.

Ingredients for Masala Pav Recipe

Pav Buns :

Pav buns or pao are essentially small loaves of bread introduced to India by the Portuguese. Pavs are always made commercially with maida or all-purpose flour.

Capsicum :

Because of their higher sugar content, red capsicums are the sweetest and highest in vitamin C and beta carotene. Orange and yellow capsicums contain nearly as much sugar as red capsicums, whereas green capsicums have a low sugar content due to early picking, which gives them a slightly bitter taste.

Kashmiri Chilli Powder :
Kashmiri chiles are tall, thin, wrinkled red chiles that produce a vibrant red powder valued for its colour and mild spiciness. The chile has a slightly smokey flavour. This powder is used in Indian cooking to add colour to dishes that don't require a lot of heat.

Tomatoes:
Tomato flavour is frequently described as sweet, tart, tangy, or well- balanced. Tomato flavour is also known as classic tomato flavour or old-fashioned tomato flavour in some cases. Some tomatoes are described as having a mild or bland flavour.

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How to Make Masala Pav

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin and let it sizzle.
Add in onions and fry till golden.
Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
Now add in capsicum and tomatoes and cook for 6 to 7 mins.
Add in pav bhaji masala and chilli powder, salt and mix well. Cook for few mins.
Add in water and bring it to a boil. Simmer for 5 mins or so.
Now add in lemon juice and coriander leaves and mix well. Remove this to a bowl.
Now in the same pan, melt some butter, spoon some bhaji in and set aside in the pan, in other side place slit pav buns and toast them. Now spoon some masala inside the buns and top of it.
Remove it on a plate and sprinkle onions, coriander leaves. Serve with extra butter and lemon wedges.

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Masala Pav Step by Step

Take all your ingredients

Heat oil and crackle some cumin seeds

add in onions

saute them

cook till it gets light golden

add in ginger garlic paste

then add in capsicum and tomatoes

mix well

cook till tomatoes soften

add in kashmiri chilli powder and pav bhaji masala

mix that through

add in water

add in salt

mix well

squeeze in some lemon juice

add in some coriander leaves

mix well..now remove this to a bowl

In the same pan, melt some butter

add some bhaji in

add in slit pav buns

flip over and cook till toasted

now spoon some bhaji over the buns

now cover with some more bhaji

done

Serve

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Chris Boarland