Mumbai Street Food

Mumbai Street Food showcases the most popular street food of all the pav Bhaji along with various versions of this dish.

Mumbai Street Food tops any street food and can't be missed when I do a series on Street Food right! I had so many dishes planned and went through them many times trying to decide what will best represent them. My list was huge however as always with the given time and my fixation on making all the dishes at the same time, I fail to cover most of the dishes on the list.

I know it will be very tough for my folks to enjoy all the dishes, not to mention I will go crazy. However, I have tried my best still it is next to impossible to make something ahead and have a portion of it for the thali. Forget about cooking the previous day, even making the dishes for the morning and lunch, having a portion was just impossible.

The result is, I run around like a headless chicken trying to complete everything on time. I had other plans of serving all these chats in the bowls and the way it was supposed to be served. The funny part was I couldn't find any of those specially bought things. I had those before lockdown and I just couldn't figure out where I had kept those. I am sure they will surface out when least in need! Murphy's law always works!

Coming back to the menu, this was made just after the lockdown was announced and that was the week when I was cooking Mega BM posts almost for all meals. I knew it was a big stress on everybody with the things considered. It was almost a week later we decided we are going to postpone the theme. I never even thought of redoing any theme as I know it's such a colossal task.

Once the platter was ready, it looked like I had Pav on my mind and planned all the rest around it. The original plan had other popular dishes from the street food and those I haven't shared already. Of course, I have a Pav Bhaji already done. We make Pav Bhaji at least once a month, if not twice depending on getting fresh pav.

During the lockdown, Social Media was frizzy with homemade pav bread. Even I thought about it and dropped the idea. I still can't believe six months have passed with all of us at home. When we plan the menu, we got to consider everybody's taste.

The one biggest thing that could change for us is Chinnu finally ate Pav. In fact, he tasted Pav for the first time when I made this theme. So it is a big milestone event for us. Else all these years when I make Pav Bhaji, I have to plan something else for him and he will always sulk.

Pav Bhaji and more!

Amul Butter is the final secret ingredient in many of the Mumbai Street food videos I saw. It is added as a final touch to the dish be it the bhaji or the pav. So this time I made sure I got it when I made this. Of course, the salted Amul butter surely made things so much better.

The Bhaji recipe is a new one and the other combinations were really a hit, with me repeating some of them since then. Can you believe that we make this dish so many times yet I haven't clicked a decent picture of it or the step-by-step pictures! Will get to that someday!

So for today, the basic Pav Bhaji with made differently than what I make is featured in the Mumbai Street Food.