Pav bhaji Fondue|Pav bhaji Fondue recipe| How to make pav bhaji fondue|How to make pav bhaji fondue at home|Recipe of pav bhaji fondue
When the classic flavours of creamy, cheesy, gooey fondue and Mumbai’s favourite street food Pav bhaji are perfectly married with each other, is known as pav bhaji fondue|Pav bhaji fondue recipe
This easy recipe creates a fantastic fusion and a smart makeover of famous street food Pav bhaji.
In this Pav bhai fondue recipe, the mashed mixture of vegetables is cooked with cheese, milk, cream & pav bhaji masala. It is served hot with buttered pav/dinner rolls.
I have earlier shared Vada pav Fondue recipe, which is well received by you all and is worth trying.
Ingredients used to make this fusion Indian fondue
Don’t get surprised as this recipe has no potatoes, but retains all the other key ingredients to make pav bhaji. The milk and cheese here add a beautiful texture to this fondue and creates a mouthwatering fusion of two unique dishes.
What is Fondue?
According to WIKIPEDIA fondue is melted cheese dish served in a pot over a portable stove ignited with a candle and eaten by dipping bread into the cheese using long-stemmed forks.
Loved the idea of making fondue at home? Serve this fondue when guests come over or on cold winter nights gather around dinner table to enjoy this piping hot fondue with your family.
A quick & easy recipe
As the new year has set in and winter is finally here in this part of the world, i always crave for short, quick, easy and chatpati recipes. I feel regular meals are so bore sometimes.
Fusion cooking comes to my rescue in these times and taking cue from Tarla Dalal’s this wonderful recipe with some modifications, i couldn’t wait to try this out soon.
Extremely customizable recipe
As the pav bhaji fondue recipe is extremely customisable, i made this to suit to our palate. If you like more tomatoes, throw in some more, don’t like onions, reduce it, love spicy add more chillies.
Just make it the way you want and bring out your fondue pot this season. Make your family and friends feel special, without actually having to slog for hours and use any fancy ingredients.
So go ahead and treat your loved ones with this lipsmacking East meets West showstopper Pav bhaji fondue recipe.
Step by step instructions and pictorial presentation
Heat the oil & butter in a deep non-stick pan, add the garlic paste and sauté for 30 seconds. Once it turns pinkish, to this add chopped onions and capsicum and sauté for 2 minutes.
Mix in the tomatoes and 1 tbsp of water, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes. Mash the vegetables with help of a masher, while stirring occasionally.
According to your taste, add & adjust Pav bhaji masala quantity, chilli powder, cheese, milk and salt. Stir it and mix well. Cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
Allow the mixture to cool, and blend in a mixer to a coarse paste.
Transfer the mixture back into the pan, and to this add the fresh cream & mix well. Let it simmer on medium flame for 1 more minute.
Now it’s time to serve Indian style spicy pav bhaji fondue. Remove it and pour in fondue pot. Place it on the fondue stand with burner ignited. Serve immediately with herb bread or pav toasted in butter for dipping.
- 2 tsp butter
- 1 tsp oil
- 1 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
- ½ cup chopped onions
- ¼ cup chopped capsicum
- ¾ cup chopped tomatoes
- 1+1/2 tsp pav bhaji masala
- 1+1/2 tsp chilli powder
- ½ cup grated processed cheese
- ¼ cup milk
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp fresh cream
- For Serving
- herb garlic bread or pav/dinner rolls
- Heat the oil & butter in a deep non-stick pan, add the garlic paste and sauté for 30 seconds.
- Once it turns pinkish, to this add chopped onions and capsicum and sauté for 2 minutes.
- Mix in the tomatoes and 1 tbsp of water, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 minutes.
- Mash the vegetable with help of a masher, while stirring occasionally.
- According to your taste, add & adjust Pav bhaji masala quantity, chilli powder, cheese, milk and salt.
- Stir it and mix well. Cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
- Allow the mixture to cool, and blend in a mixer to a coarse paste.
- Transfer the mixture back into the pan, and to this add the fresh cream & mix well.
- Let it simmer on medium flame for 1 more minute.
- Now it's time to serve Indian style spicy pav bhaji fondue.
- Remove it and pour in fondue pot.
- Place it on the fondue stand with burner ignited.
- Serve immediately with herb bread or pav toasted in butter for dipping.
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This is such an amazing makeover of regular pav bhaji. The way it has been shown to be served looks appealing. Superb post.
Fondue is much loved by my folks Shailender. Homemade Pav bhaji Fondue tastes amazing and much better than what is served in restaurants here in Mumbai.
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Wow this is such a brilliant idea to have it on party menu. I’m sure this would be a show stopper dish in any party! Beautifully presented.
It indeed is a show stopper for any party Geetha. Thank you.
What an innovative idea! A perfect recipe to surprise guests. I am ready to dig into this right now 🙂 Love this!
Thank you Geetanjali
That is such an innovative and delicious looking fondue. Love the pav bhaji twist to this cheesy dish. Perfect kid friendly dish.
Thank you Pavani.
What an amazing recipe Lata, a wonderful way to serve pav bhaji as a starter. Butter toasted bread pieces and fondue is what I can make a meal out of, wouldn’t need anything else.
Absolutely right Mayuri. I am glad you liked it. Thank you.
Such an innovative idea to make pav bhaji fondue, no wonders your kids love it. I need to try it for sure , bookmarking to try later.
Thank you Sapna.
Pav Bhaji as fondue is a great idea. I never thought of serving this way. Fabulous.
Thank you Lathiya.
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