Pav Bhaji

This recipe was taught me to by my mom, who knows how to make hard recipes easy!

Makes for 5-6 people, preparation time: 45mins

Ingredients

1 cup mixed frozen veggies ( or fresh cut beans, carrots & peas)
1 onion
2 potatos
1/4 cabbage
1/2 cauliflower
1 capisicum
1 can of tomato paste ( 100 grams)
pav bhaji masala
salt to taste
2 tsp chili powder (1 tsp, if you want it to be mild)
1/2 lemon

Method

1. First cut potatos into cubes, also cut cabbage, cauliflower and capsicum and boil all these together along with the frozen veggies in an electric cooker or pressure cooker.

2. Once the veggies are boiled, put them aside along with the water. Dont drain the water.

3. In a pan add 1-2 tsp oil, add to it cumin seeds and let it fry for 1-2mins. Then add a whole can of tomato paste and let it fry for 2 mins.

4. Then to this add the mixture of boiled veggies. Mix well untill all the tomato paste is absorbed in the veggies.

5. Smash the mixture well for a while, cover the pan and let it cook for 5-10mins on low flame.

6. Then add the desired amount of salt, 2 tsp chili powder (1 tsp if you want it to be mild ), and 1 tsp pav bhaji masala in the pan to the mixture.

7. Now squeez half the lemon in the pav bhaji ( optional).

8. Serve hot with bread toast (pav) and onions.

Tip: Here I have used an easy way by first boiling all the vegetables seperately in a cooker which is a much faster method to boil veggies.