Pav – bhaji masala powder

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 2 minutes.
• Blending time: 2-3  minutes.
• Total time: 5 minutes.

Spices are magical source to enhance the Indian food taste; Pav –bhaji masala is one of them. Pav – bhaji is a very popular street food from Indian state of Maharashtra and the Gujarat, now it is popular in all over India.

Pav- bhaji masala is to be used when we make bhaji (mashed mixed vegetables) to be eaten with pav, bun & bread. But you can use this in a versatile manner even in Indian curry.

Ingredients:

• Cumin: 2 tablespoon
• Black pepper: 1 teaspoon.
• Kala namak: 1 teaspoon.
• Cloves: 1 tablespoon
• Dry ginger (sauth): 3 tablespoon
• Amchoor (dry mango powder): 2 tablespoon
• Fenugreek seed: half teaspoon
• Bay leaves: 3-4 no.
• Red Chilli: 10-12 no.
• Ajwain (Carom seed): 1 teaspoon
• Dry mint leaves: 10 gm
• Kasuri methi: 10 gm
• Coriander: 5-6 tablespoon
• Star anise (cakra phula): 3-4 no.

Preparation:

1. Dry roast cumin seed, keep aside.
2. Break dry ginger, Star anise (cakra phula) and kala namak roughly, keep aside.

Method:

1. Grind cumin, Star anise (cakra phula), dry ginger, and kala namak roughly.
2. Add remaining ingredients, grind till get fine powder.
3. Sieve and grind again the residue.
4. Store this powder “Pav –bhaji masala” into air tight container, can be stored for months.

Pav – bhaji masala powder by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.