pav bhaji

I made it on the weekend and it is super easy and super fast and super yummy !

2-3 potatoes - peeled and roughly chopped
1cup - peas ( I used frozen)
1cup - chopped beans ( again I used frozen)
1cup - cauli florets ( yep, frozen again )

It was faster cos all I had to chop was potatoes, the rest came out of the freezer. Now, pressure cook the above, mash it and keep it aside.

In a pan, add some butter ( 50 gms) and immediately add 3 finely chopped onions. Fry till it turns golden. Add 3 chopped tomatoes, 3tbsps pave bhaji masala, a pinch of red chilli pdr ( if you want it spicy), 1/2 tsp turmeric, cover and let it cook till tomatoes are sift and butter floats on the top. Add the boiled veges. Mix properly and let it simmer for 10 min. Adjust the water according to how runny you want it. add salt and some lemon juice.

Cut the pav/hamburger buns, butter and cook on the tawa till it is golden. Serve with bhaji, some chopped onions and lemon.

Puran Poli

Though I never used to have a sweet tooth ( which I have develped recently, thanks to my husband's love for sweets), I had always loved this puran poli that my masi used to make for us whenever she visited us in Hyderabad. Even though I couldnt eat more than one cos of its sweetness, but it was one of my favourite. My last meal before Bubbly was born was also puran poli but bubbly doesnt like it much.

Anyway, untill recently it looked too complicated for me to even try cooking it, but I have now learnt to make it otherwise it would mean never to have it again.

You will need:

1 cup wheat flour

1 cup standard flour ( maida )

pinch of salt

for filling:

1 cup chana dal

1 cup jaggery

1/2 tsp cardomom pwdr.

method:

soak chana daal for an hour and then pressure cook it with little water. Add Jaggery in it and stir it untill most of the water is soaked. add cardomom powder and let it cool.

Mix wheat flour, standard flour and salt and kneed a very soft dough with water and keep aside for 1/2 an hour.

make small balls of dough and pat them to flatten them a little and put equal quantity of chana daal mixture on it and close the sides. Roll it out but it should be slightly thick. you can make it as thin as you like but personally I like it if its a bit thickish.

Put it on a hot tawa and cook it on both sides till golden and apply ghee generously.

You can eat it hot off the stove with some achar.