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PavBhaji Pasta

PavBhaji Pasta

Mumbai's favorite spicy PavBhaji used as a sauce to make this delectable PavBhaji Pasta.
Course Rahul

Ingredients
  

Pav Bhaji Sauce

  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • 5 Potatoes Cubed
  • 1 Capsicum Cubed
  • 3 Carrots Cubed
  • 1 cup Frozen Peas
  • ½ cup Frozen Corn
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 Onion Chopped
  • cup Tomato Puree
  • tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 4 tsp Pav Bhaji Masala
  • 4 tsp Lemon Juice
  • Cilantro
  • Salt as per taste

Pasta

  • ¾ cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • Salt

Instructions
 

Pavbhaji Sauce

  • Cook potatoes, capsicum and carrots in a pressure cooker till soft and tender. Cool and mash the mixture with a potato masher
  • Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, onions and sauté for few minutes till they start changing color.
  • Mix in the tomato puree, red chili powder and pay bhaji masala. Mix well and cook till the oil separates from the gravy.
  • Now add all the veggies and cook for 7-10minutes.
  • Drizzle in the lemon juice. Season with salt and garnish with cilantro.

Pasta

  • Mix flour and salt on a flat surface. Make a well in the centre and crack an egg in it. Use the fork to beat the egg and incorporate the flour little by little into the egg mixture.
  • Once you get a crumbly texture and the flour is fully incorporated knead it with your hands by folding and pushing with the heel of your palm until it forms a smooth dough. Cover and let it rest for 20 minutes.
  • Cut the dough into half. Cover one half and roll the other half with rolling pin to the approximate width of the pasta machine.
  • Set the pasta machine to thickest setting (mine was 7). Pass the dough through the machine and roll. Fold the pasta sheet and repeat this process again till you get a smooth dough. Lower the setting by 1 and pass the pasta sheet again through the machine. Dust with flour to avoid sticking. Repeat this process till you get a thin sheet of pasta (I stopped at setting of 3).
  • Incase you don't have a pasta machine. Roll the dough with a rolling pin into a very thin sheet.
  • Keep a pot of boiling water and a bowl of beaten egg ready before you start the next step.
  • Cut the pasta with a sharp knife or pasta cutter to form rectangular strips. Cut these strips into equal squares.
  • Place a chopstick/skewer on one corner of an individual square and apply a little egg on the opposite corner. Now roll the square into a tube making sure to apply a little pressure at the end to seal. Slide the pasta off the skewer. Repeat with the other squares.
  • Drop the pasta in the boiling water. Fresh pasta cooks really fast in 3 minutes and rises to the surface. Drain the water.

Assembly

  • Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
  • Ladle in the pavbhaji sauce and simmer for a couple of minutes.
  • Add the pasta and cook till the sauce coats the pasta. Season with salt.
  • Transfer the pasta to a serving dish. Garnish with cilantro. Sprinkle with your choice cheese.
  • Serve hot !!!