Pav Pattice

Long weekend of Labor day! Cooking my favorite street food ! The kids totally loved this and asked for more!

Ingredients:

For stuffing:

4 potato

1 onion small chopped

1/2 cup peas

6-7 cloves garlic

1/4 inch ginger

bunch cilantro leaves

2 tsp garam masala

4 tbsp oil

2 tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp mustard seeds

1 tsp sauff

asafoetida

bunch curry leaves

4 thai chillies (change according to taste)

2 lemons

1 tbsp sugar

salt to taste

White enriched bread slices

For Batter:

1 cup besan (chick pea flour)

1 tsp turmeric powder

2 tsp chilly powder

2 tbsp rice flour

2 tsp Ajwain seeds

Oil

Method:

1. Boil the potatoes and remove the skin

2. Mash them with masher

3. Heat oil in pan and add cumin, mustard, sauff seeds. Let the seeds sputter. Add pinch asafoetida

4. Add curry leaves, garlic and ginger crushed.

5. Add chopped cilantro and chopped cashews and boiled peas.

6. Add the potatoes and saute. Add lemon juice, sugar and salt to taste and garam masala. Make this spicy and got since will be used as stuffing. Let mixture cool. Then make small balls for stuffing. Keep aside.

7. Take a slice of bread. Add the stuffing and spread it. Then cover with another slice. You can adjust stuffing according to taste.

8. Cut the bread slice in 2 pieces.

9. Heat oil in frying pan and when hot add some oil (2 tsp) to the chick pea batter (Add water to the batter ingredients to make a thick paste of consistency shown in picture). This will allow less oil for frying.

10. Then fry the patties on medium flame. It will take 1-2 minutes to fry on one side. Allow time for the coating turn golden. Be careful. Extra time or heat might make the color dark brown.

11. Deep fry the jalapenos /chillies.

12. Serve hot with tamarind/mint/tomato/red chutney.

Enjoy with hot tea or coffee!