Recipe: Pav Bhaji (Spiced Indian Potato & Cauliflower Mash On Brioche Buns)
Instructions:
Chop cauliflower, carrots, potato and green beans into 1cm chunks. Boil them all together with peas for about 10 min or until extremely soft. Melt butter in a wide bottomed pan then add cumin seeds, fry for a min then add chopped onion and sautee until golden. Add ginger-garlic then chopped green chilli. Stir for 30sec then add chopped tomatoes. Add 1-2 tbsp of water and cook of gently until very soft. Add green pepper very finely chopped and sautee 3 min. Mix all the spices and stir them in. Add the boiled vegetables and , roughly mash the mixture and stir in some water. It should resemble a runny mash. In a pan, melt some butter and add a bit of the spice blend from earlier. Use this to toast the buns. Serve Pav bhaji piping hot with buns on the side. Garnish with a few peas and a knob of butter. serves 6
Ingredients
- ground turmeric : 4 spice
- bell pepper : 1 g
- brioche buns : 6 package
- carrots : 150 g
- cauliflower : 150 g
- chilli powder : 4 spice
- chopped tomato : 300 g
- cumin seeds : 7 g
- fine green beans : 100 g
- finger chillies : 5 g
- peas : 150 g
- garam masala : 8 spice
- ground cardamom : 2 spice
- ground coriander : 4 spice
- ground fenugreek : 2 spice
- onion : 1 piece
- potatoes : 350 g
- unsalted butter : 100 g