Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe (2024)

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Published: Jul 31, 2022 | Last Updated On: Jul 31, 2022 by Aarthi

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Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a popular Mumbai street foods and can be packed into kids lunchbox with raita.

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2.Tawa Pulao Recipe | Tava Pulao | Pav Bhaji Pulao Recipe

3.Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe Step by Step

Mumbai Tawa Pulao

This recipe is a popular street food in Mumbai...This recipe calls for only one spice powder that is Pav Bhaji masala. I used my homemade pav bhaji masala, you can use store bought as well.

Ingredients for Mumbai Tawa Pulao

Basmati Rice - 1 cup
Onions -1 chopped finely
Tomato - 2 chopped finely
Capsicum -1 chopped
Green Peas -1 cup ( I used frozen)
Green chilli - 1 chopped finely
Homemade Pav Bhaji Masala - 2 tbsp (RECIPE HERE)
Homemade Chilli Garlic Paste - 3 tbsp (RECIPEHERE)
Salt to taste
Sugar - ½ tsp
Butter - 4 tbsp
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

How to Make Mumbai Tawa Pulao

Wash basmati rice, soak it for 30 mins. Bring lots of water to boil, add salt to it.
Add in rice and cook for 7 to 8 mins till it is done. Drain and set aside. Leave it to cool completely.
In a kadai add butter add in chilli garlic paste and cook till oil separates.
Add in the Onions,Green chilli, tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
Add in salt and little sugar and mix well.
Now add in the pav bhajji masala and mix well.
Add in peas and capsicum stir for 2 min.
Add in the cooked rice and mix well until the masala coats each rice.
Serve hot with any raita.

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Tawa Pulao Recipe | Tava Pulao | Pav Bhaji Pulao Recipe

Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a popular Mumbai street foods and can be packed into kids lunchbox with raita.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 servings

Calories: 300kcal

Ingredients

▢ 1 cup Basmati Rice
▢ 1 Onions chopped finely
▢ 2 Tomato chopped finely
▢ 1 Capsicum chopped
▢ 1 cup Green Peas I used frozen
▢ 1 Green chilli chopped finely
▢ 2 tbsp Homemade Pav Bhaji Masala
▢ 3 tbsp Homemade Chilli Garlic Paste
▢ Salt to taste
▢ ½ tsp Sugar
▢ 4 tbsp Butter
▢ Coriander leaves for garnishing

Instructions

▢
Wash basmati rice, soak it for 30 mins. Bring lots of water to boil, add salt to it.
▢
Add in rice and cook for 7 to 8 mins till it is done. Drain and set aside. Leave it to cool completely.
▢
In a kadai add butter add in chilli garlic paste and cook till oil separates.
▢
Add in the Onions,Green chilli, tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
▢
Add in salt and little sugar and mix well.
▢
Now add in the pav bhajji masala and mix well.
▢
Add in peas and capsicum stir for 2 min.
▢
Add in the cooked rice and mix well until the masala coats each rice.
▢
Serve hot with any raita.
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Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe Step by Step

Boil some basmati rice in lots of salted water and drain them...
Checkthis postfor step by step pics

Set aside to cool

Now take your other ingredients

Melt a good amount of butter in the kadai

add in chilli garlic paste(RECIPE HERE)

saute well

cook till oil separates

add in onions, green chillies and tomatoes

sprinkle little salt

saute well

cook till the tomatoes turn mushy

add little sugar

and some pav bhaji masala(recipe here)

mix well

cook for few more mins

add in capsicum and peas

mix well

add in rice

toss well

cook for few more mins

Serve

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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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ishaan
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yummmy ..................
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G Madhan
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Will surely try . Thanks for the recipie.
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Pushpa Kannan
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THe final presentation of the rice is dark in colour. whereas when u added rice to the mixture in the tava it is pale . pl explain if u have added any colouring agent to get the dark colour.
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Anonymous
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Can we use any vegtable or ly green peas
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Aarthi
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@Pushpa Kannanno it is because of lighting in my camera. You will get that colour from the red chilli paste.
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Anonymous
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Thank you very much for this recipe. It was a big hit at my place !
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UM
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Aarthi.... Can we make it as single pot rice... like briyani?
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Aarthi
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@UMno this has to be done like this
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Anonymous
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Can it be prepared for travel? Tat is, will it stay good for one day? And can i prepare using jeera rice. By cooking rice separately like basmati n using same way. Answer fast pls.going to prepare now
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Aarthi
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@Anonymousno i don think so..since there is veggies added
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