Mumbai Street Food Pav Bhaji

Pav is the bread you can see in the picture and Bhaji is the vegetable eaten with it. The mix of potatoes, cauliflower, green peppers, green peas and some aromatics makes this, one of the quintessential dishes for anyone living in Mumbai. Best one till date for me is and always will be, is the Sardar Pav Bhaji in Town at Tardeo, with loads of butter and loads of spice. Next best one could easily be the one we have at Classic Fast Food, with cheese at Matunga. Here goes the way i make it....

Ingredients
A
3 potatoes peeled
1 whole cauliflower, made into big florets
1 cup of green peas
Pressure cook all these to 2 whistles, mash roughly by hand and keep ready
B
1 green bell pepper chopped fine
3 onions finely chopped
3 tomatoes pureed
10 cloves of garlic pureed with 1 small tomato
2 tspns of chilli powder
2 tspns of Badshah pav bhaji masala
Salt to taste
Amul butter for making the vegetable and to smear on the pavs

To use while serving
Some lime wedges, onion finely chopped, coriander for garnishing

Method 
In a pan  take 3 table spoons of Amul butter, add the chopped onion from A,  add the bell pepper and saute well, add the garlic tomato puree, saute well, now goes the tomato puree to be sauteed till it gets well cooked. Now add the salt, masala and the chilli powder. Mix well, add the mashed vegetables. Cook well and add water if required. Some people like it a bit flowy with the veggies totally mashed. We like a bite of the vegetables. Once the bhaji is well cooked,  garnish with onions, coriander and a squeeze of lime, serve it with the buttered pavs, made crisp in a pan, I like cheese so the extra topping you can see in my picture!!