> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://onesandwich.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Pav Bhaji with Extra Butter - URL: https://onesandwich.com/pav-bhaji-with-extra-butter/ - Published: 2026-05-17T05:30:47.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-26T14:24:25.000Z - Description: Extra butter melted on top and used for toasting pav鈥攖he indulgent version. - Author: Andrew Lekashman - Tags: India, Split Roll Sandwiches, Pav Bhaji, #auto-imported **馃嚠馃嚦 India** 路 Family: [Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/tag/pav-bhaji/) 路 Region: Mumbai 路 Heat: Griddled 路 Bread: pav --- Ingredients pav 路 potato 路 tomato 路 peas 路 bell pepper 路 pav bhaji masala 路 butter 路 onion 路 cilantro Pav Bhaji with Extra Butter is the deliberately indulgent register of the Mumbai dish: extra butter is melted across the top of the *bhaji* and used generously to toast the *pav*, pushing the whole plate toward richness. The angle is excess as a feature, not a flaw. Where the classic form uses a measured amount of fat and lets lemon and raw onion keep the dish bright, this version leans the other way on purpose. Butter is the headline, and the stall often signals it visibly by mounting a thick pat or a sculpted slab on the hot mash so it slumps and pools as it reaches the table. The underlying *bhaji* is the same spiced vegetable mash, potatoes, tomatoes, and mixed vegetables cooked down on the *tawa* with *pav bhaji masala*, but the butter discipline is intentionally abandoned at two points. First, the *pav* is toasted in a far heavier slick of butter, the cut faces almost frying rather than merely crisping. Second, more butter is folded into the *bhaji* at the finish and then a final visible quantity is melted over the top. Good execution still demands balance underneath the richness: the *bhaji* itself must be properly cooked and seasoned so the butter amplifies a real base rather than smothering an underdeveloped one, and the eater's lemon and raw onion still have to do their cutting work or the plate turns heavy and one-note. Sloppy versions hide a thin, raw-tasting mash under the fat, leave the *pav* greasy and soggy instead of crisp because it sat in butter without enough heat, or skip the acid entirely so nothing counters the load. The plating telegraphs the intent: a glossy, butter-slicked bowl of *bhaji* with a melting cap of butter, raw onion, cilantro, lemon, and *pav* whose toasted faces glisten. It is the same dish as the classic, dialed up one specific dimension, and that single-axis exaggeration is exactly what separates it from the standard, the griddled stuffed-roll, and the cheese treatments, each of which deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. --- ## More from this family Other [Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/tag/pav-bhaji/) sandwiches in India: - [Cheese Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/cheese-pav-bhaji/) - [Jain Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/jain-pav-bhaji/) - [Kolhapuri Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/kolhapuri-pav-bhaji/) - [Mushroom Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/mushroom-pav-bhaji/) - [Paneer Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/paneer-pav-bhaji/) - [Pav Bhaji Classic](https://onesandwich.com/pav-bhaji-classic/) - [Pav Bhaji Masala Pav](https://onesandwich.com/pav-bhaji-masala-pav/) - [Pav Bhaji](https://onesandwich.com/pav-bhaji/)