One of the most popular dishes in Marathi Indian cuisine is Pav Bhaaji. The name is quite self explanatory. Pav in marathi means bread and bhaji means vegetable dish.[From Wikipedia:
The origin of this dish is traced to textile mill workers in Mumbai in the 1850s.
The mill workers used to have lunch breaks too short for a full meal, and a light lunch was preferred to a heavy one, as the employees had to return to strenuous physical labor after lunch. A vendor created this dish using items or parts of other dishes available on the menu. Roti or rice was replaced with pav and the curries that usually go with Indian bread or rice were amalgamated into just one spicy concoction, the 'bhaji'. Initially, it remained the food of the mill-workers. With time the dish found its way into restaurants and spread over Central Mumbai and other parts of the city via the Udipi restaurants ]
My mom makes awesome Pav Bhaaji. I hope this recipe and skill to cook passes on to me. She made some today and I surfeited myself on it.
What can I say? I live to eat. :P
Read more about Pav Bhaji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_Bhaji
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