Pav, Bhature & Street Mains

Bread-centered stall food, spanning Mumbai pav dishes and North Indian chole bhature.

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Pav Sandwich · West India

Kutchi Dabeli

Mashed potato cooked down with dabeli masala until it's sweet, tangy and fragrant, then stacked with garlic and tamarind chutneys, pomegranate and sev inside a bun that gets toasted flat on a griddle.

  • 1 hr
  • Intermediate
  • Shallow-Fried
  • Medium spice
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Mumbai Street Food · West India

Mumbai Pav Bhaji, Masala Made from Scratch

Calling this a recipe undersells it: potato, cauliflower, peas and tomato are boiled, mashed and reduced into one thick curry under a load of pav bhaji masala and butter, then handed over with soft pav rolls toasted on a hot griddle.

  • 1 hr 5 min
  • Easy
  • Simmered
  • Medium spice
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Pav Sandwich · West India

Mumbai Vada Pav with Garlic Chutney

A hot, gram-flour-coated potato fritter, packed into a soft pav with a thin layer of dry garlic chutney and a fried green chilli on the side — Mumbai's defining street-food sandwich.

  • 55 min
  • Intermediate
  • Deep-Fried
  • Medium spice
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