Misal Pav – Marathi recipe

Instructions

• Heat up a pan on medium heat. Add coconut and roast until it gets reddish color.
• When done, take it out into a blender pot.
• In the same pan add 1 tsp oil. Add sliced onion, garlic, and ginger.
• Fry on medium heat until onion gets reddish color for about 5-6 minutes.
• Add tomato and fry for another 4-5 minutes until tomato becomes soft.
• Turn off the gas and when the mixture cools down, transfer it into a blender jar which contains roasted coconut.
• Blend the mixture really well.
• Heat up 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Add blended masala and fry on medium heat for about 3-4 minutes.
• Add coriander powder, goda masala and red chili powder.
• If you don’t have goda masala you can add kitchen king masala of any other garam masala.
• Mix well and fry until masala release oil.
• Take mataki, add water, turmeric powder, and salt.
• Cook on medium heat until 1 whistle. Do not overcook the mataki.
• Add mataki along with water into the masala. Mix well. Add water.
• You can also cook mataki in the kat itself.
• Add salt and gudh to taste. You can skip gudh if you don’t like it. Boil misal on medium for 7-8 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and kat for misal is already.
• While serving, in a bowl add one layer of mataki at the base.
• You can add layers of boiled potato sabzi, pohe.
• Add lots of farsan and kat of misal.
• Add onion and finely chopped coriander.
• Garnish with fine shve. Serve with ladi pav, onion, coriander, and a slice of lemon.