Misal Pav

Mumbai’s special spicy sprouts gravy topped with onion, farsan, lemon juice served with pav

Good Food Trials
2 min readMay 22, 2021

Ingredients (serving 4 people)

  • 250gm Sprouts (as per choice)
  • 0.25 cup Dried Coconut
  • 2 onion (roughly sliced)
  • 2 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
  • 4–5 Garlic Cloves
  • 1/2 inch ginger
  • Jaggery
  • Spices
  • Pav

Recipe

  1. Take sprouts in a cooker. Add 1–1.5 cup water, 0.5 tsp salt and 0.5 tsp turmeric powder. Cook for 1 whistle. Keep it aside.
  2. Heat a kadhai, add dried coconut and roast till it turns red. Cool it and transfer it into mixer.
  3. In the same kadhai, add 1 tbsp oil and roughly sliced onions, garlic cloves and ginger. Stir fry till it turns golden.
  4. Add roughly chopped tomatoes and roast together till tomato turns soft.
  5. Cool this mixture and transfer it into mixer. Grind it together with coconut.
  6. Now, heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add the blended onion tomato masala. Stir fry for 4–5 mins on medium flame.
  7. Add 1 tbsp coriander powder, goda masala, onion garlic masala and red chili powder each. Add kashmiri red chili powder for good colour (optional).
  8. Roast it till masala starts leaving oil.
  9. Add cooked sprouts along with its water & mix well. Add water to adjust consistency.
  10. Add salt and jaggery as per taste. Bring it to a boil for 10 mins on medium flame & Usal is ready.
  11. Separate Usal and Kat (Gravy) into separate containers.
    Enjoy your Misal with Pav, onions and farsan!

Tips

You can use garam masala in case goda masala isn’t available.

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