Bhajji Pav
Assorted pakoras/bhajji (battered and fried vegetables—onion, potato, chili) in pav with chutneys.
Assorted pakoras/bhajji (battered and fried vegetables—onion, potato, chili) in pav with chutneys.
Beef keema pav is the Muslim Mumbai version of keema and pav: dark dry spiced mince scooped with soft buttered pav, made with water-buffalo carabeef in the lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Bohri Mohalla.
Beef gives it away: a Goan Catholic kitchen, where the cow was never off the table. A dry, vinegar-sharp chilli fry folded into the poder's pao, soured the way only a coast under Portugal would.
Parsi scrambled eggs pulled off the heat while still wet and barely set, the deliberate opposite of dry bhurji, scooped with buttered pav at an Irani cafe table. Texture is the whole dish.