Green Pav Bhaji (Surat’s famous street-food)
If you seek a nutritious Indian vegetarian main dish for your weeknight dinner or party, explore this Hariyali Pav Bhaji, also known as Green Pav Bhaji Recipe!
Ingredients
Vegetables
- 1 ½ cup Potatoes (peeled and diced)
- 1 cup zucchini (peeled and diced) You can use Lauki (Dudhi) too
- 1 cup cauliflower florets
- ½ cup green peas matar (I have used frozen)
- 1 cup bell pepper finely chopped
- 1 cup green tomatoes, Finely chopped (I have used Tomatillos)
- 1 cup green onions, finely chopped (spring onions),
- ½ cup regular onion finely chopped
- 1 ½ tablespoon grated garlic
- 3 cups spinach Leaves
Spices
- 1 ½ teaspoon salt or to taste
- 3 teaspoon pav bhaji masala
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
Other ingredients
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon oil
- ¼ cup cilantro + for garnishing
For serving
- Cilantro
- 4 to 6 pav dinner rolls
- Lime wedge
- Finely chopped onion
- butter
Instructions
Boil vegetables
- Take a peeled and diced potato, cauliflower florets, and diced zucchini in a bowl. Add ¾ cup of water, cover the bowl.
- Now take a pressure cooker add 2 cups of water, place the bowl of vegetables, cover it, close the pressure cooker and take 4 whistles.
- Once pressure is down, open the pressure cooker and take out the vegetable bowl. Keep it aside.
Spinach Puree
- Take 4 cups of water in the pot and let it boil on a stovetop.
- Once water is boiled, add spinach and let it cook for 2 minutes. Switch off the flame.
- Place the palak (spinach) in a bowl full of ice and water.
- Take spinach out from the ice water after 1 min.
- Into a blender jar take blanched spinach and cilantro. Puree them well. Keep it aside.
Let’s make Surti Green Pav Bhaji
- Heat butter and oil a heavy bottom pan. Once it’s hot, add garlic and green chili paste. Sauté for a few seconds.
- Now add green onion, regular onion, tomatillos, and bell pepper. Saute for a minute. Now add salt, mix, cover the pot and let everything cook for 5 minutes over medium heat. Stir in between and make sure nothing is sticking at the bottom.
- Open the lid, stir the mixture, add green peas, mix and cook it for a minute. Now add Pav bhaji masala and turmeric powder. Mix everything really well and continue to cook until oil/butter separates, for about 2 minutes.
- Now add 1 cup of water and mash everything with a potato masher.
- Lower the heat, add boiled vegetables, and mash it very well.
- Mix and let it simmer for about 5 minutes on low to medium heat. Add water if required.
- Now add spinach-cilantro puree, mix everything really well. Cook for a minute and switch off the flame.
- Don’t cook more than a minute after adding the spinach-cilantro puree for that fresh and green color.
Bhaji in Instant Pot
- Heat butter and oil in an inner pot of instant pot on sauté mode.
- Once butter oil is hot, add garlic and green chili paste, sauté for a few seconds.
- Now add tomatillos, green bell pepper, onion, and green onions. Saute for a minute.
- Now add potato, cauliflower, zucchini, green peas, 1 ½ cups of water, salt, and pav bhaji masala.
- Mix everything well.
- Now cover the instant pot with its locking lid, turn off the sauté button, press the manual/pressure button, and set the time for 12 minutes under high pressure.
- Once cooking time is done, let the pressure release naturally.
- Open the instant pot, turn on the sauté button, and mash everything with the potato masher well. Add a little bit of water if required. Let the bhaji cook for 5 minutes in sauté mode.
- Now add spinach-cilantro puree, mix and cook it for a minute on sauté mode.
- Turn off the instant pot. It’s ready.
Toast the Pav
- To toast the pav, melt butter on a pan on medium heat. Sprinkle some pav bhaji masala and some cilantro on top of the butter halve the bun (pav) from the middle and then place the buns on the pan.
- Press to toast the pav until crisp and golden brown from both sides.
Serve the Pav Bhaji
- To serve the Hariyali pav bhaji, place a ladle full of hot bhaji on a plate. Sprinkle onion, cilantro and add a dollop of butter. Serve with toasted pavs and a side of a lemon wedge. Enjoy.
Nutrition
Calories: 186kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 5gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 969mgPotassium: 755mgFiber: 6gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 4260IUVitamin C: 100mgCalcium: 84mgIron: 2mg
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