Tawa pulao recipe or Tawa Pulav- Cooked rice is sauteed with vegetables and spiced with pav bhaji masala.
Tawa pulao is popular Mumbai street food. All the pav bhaji stalls serves this delicious rice called tawa pulao. They make this in big batches earlier and give you appropriate portion with a dollop of butter on top as you order. It has flavor of pav bhaji in it.
It is not only available in Mumbai streets, but now all over the India there are many pav bhaji stalls and they serve this yummy pulao. Basically it is prepared on same tawa/tava on which pav bhaji is made. So it is known as tawa pulao.
It can be made from left over rice at home. But dear husband likes this pulav so much; I do specially cook rice to make this pulao. Lots of veggies are added to this pulao, and pav bhaji masala and lemon juice take this pulao to the whole new level. It is so flavorful.
To serve it same as stall or restaurant style. Remove the pulao on serving bowl, add dollop of butter on top and lemon wedges on side.
I have used butter in the recipe to make it same as pav bhaji vendors does. But for health reason you can use oil instead. You will not miss that much flavor. Only thing is that with butter it will be little
Check out other pulao recipes
Spicy veg pulao // Pudina pulao // Corn pulao // Capsicum pulao
How to make tawa pulao recipe (Step by Step Photos):
1) Take green peas and carrot in a microwave safe bowl, sprinkle little salt and add few tablespoons of water. Cover it and microwave it for 3-4 minutes (time varies depending on your microwave). I have used frozen peas but if you using fresh peas then you need to cook few more minutes. Alternately you can boil them or pressure cook them or steam them.
2) Heat the oil and butter in a pan. on medium heat.
3) Once hot add cumin seeds and let them sizzle a bit.
4) Then saute ginger paste, garlic paste and green chilies for a minute.
5) Mix in onions, sprinkle some salt to speed up the cooking process.
6) Cook till they are light brown in color.
7) Add green pepper and tomatoes.
8) Mix well and add ¼ cup of water, so tomatoes get cook fast.
9) Add turmeric powder, red chili powder and pav bhaji masala.
10) Mix well.
11) Let it cook till tomatoes are almost mushy and oil starts leave the sides of the pan.
12) Add cooked peas and carrots.
13) Mix and cook for 2 minutes.
14) Add cooked rice.
15) Mix everything very gently without breaking the rice grains. cook for 2 minutes, so rice gets heated through.
16) Finally squeeze some lemon juice, mix and it is ready to serve.
Make this delicious and exactly same tasting as street stalls tawa pulao at home. Enjoy..
Serving suggestions: Serve this tawa pulav with onion raita or onion-tomato raita or plain yogurt. Have some roasted papad on side to have some crunch.
Tawa Pulao Recipe (How to make Tava Pulav recipe)
Ingredients
- 3 cups Cooked rice
- ½ cup Green peas
- ½ cup Carrot chopped
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ½ teaspoon Ginger paste or freshly grated or crushed
- ½ teaspoon Garlic paste or freshly grated
- 3 Green chilies chopped
- ½ cup Red onion finely chopped
- ½ cup Capsicum (Green bell pepper) chopped
- 1 ¼ cups Tomato finely chopped
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoons Red chili powder
- 4 teaspoons Pav Bhaji masala
- ¼ cup Water
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Preparation:
- Take green peas and carrot in a microwave safe bowl, sprinkle little salt and add few tablespoons of water.
- Cover it and microwave it for 3-4 minutes. I have used frozen peas but if you using fresh peas then you need to cook few more minutes.
- Alternately you can boil them or pressure cook them or steam them.
Making tawa pulao recipe:
- Heat the oil and butter in a pan on medium heat.
- Once hot add cumin seeds. Let them sizzle a bit.
- Then saute ginger paste, garlic paste and green chilies for a minute.
- Mix in onions, sprinkle some salt to speed up the cooking process.
- Cook till they are light brown in color.
- Add green pepper and tomatoes.
- Mix well and add ¼ cup of water, so tomatoes get cooked fast.
- Add turmeric powder, red chili powder and pav bhaji masala. Mix well.
- Let it cook till tomatoes are almost mushy and oil starts leave the sides of the pan.
- Add cooked peas and carrots. Mix and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add cooked rice.
- Mix everything very gently without breaking the rice grains.
- cook for 2 minutes, so rice gets heated through.
- Finally squeeze some lemon juice, mix.
- Turn off the stove.
- Top it with butter before serving. It is optional.
Hi kanan...
Let me tel you.. was tired having simple pulao n kadhi..n guess what I luked into ur recipes of rice n got n idea that I have all ingredients of Tawa Pulao..
I was like let me try but as usual for 6 people.. n guess what it came out as yum as other dishes .. its gona be in my regular meal now in winter...
Thank you so much for delicious recipes. xx
Thank you Hiral for writing me back. Very happy to know that pulao came out good.
Hi! I love this preparation. It's a perfect recipe for quick lunch on a lazy afternoon. Thanks!
Thanks,
Hello Kanan. I made this tonight and my wife and I loved it, but it was a bit too spicy for us. I loved the complexity of flavors but I think I'll use less masala spice and omit the red pepper next time. I look forward to trying more of your recipes soon!
You can make it less spicy by reducing or skipping the red chili powder and green chilies in the recipe without compromising other flavors. Hope you like other recipes as well.
Hey kanan, totally unrelated to this post. Was looking up some soup related recipes on google and saw you mention somewhere in ur blog that you were trying to master restaurant style tomato soup. You might want to check out kopycat.com . They have a great recipe for recreating panera bread style tomato soup.
Thanks Anjana, I browse that website and it has pretty good recipes. will try my hands on some. I am trying to make Indian style creamy tomato soup that we get in Indian restaurants.
Hi,i tried this...its awesome...anyhow we r adding tomato right so i dint put lemon juice...
Glad that you liked it.