West Indian
Tawa Pav (Soft Bread Rolls Warmed in Butter)
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Tawa Pav (Soft Bread Rolls Warmed in Butter) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Buy the pav fresh from the bakery on the day. It comes joined in a slab of 6 or 8, and you tear off as many as you need.
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Slit each pav across, almost all the way through, so the two halves stay hinged on one side.
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Melt the butter on a hot tawa, open the pav out and press the cut sides into it for 30 seconds, then turn them and warm the tops for a few seconds until soft inside and lightly crisp.
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Eat them hot beside usal, egg bhurji, kheema or any rassa, mopping up the gravy the way Mumbai does.
Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tawa Pav (Soft Bread Rolls Warmed in Butter), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tawa Pav (Soft Bread Rolls Warmed in Butter) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Fodnicha Bhaat (Tempered Leftover Rice) |
| Gluten | Yes | Bajra Bhakri (Pearl Millet Flatbread) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 260 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Carbs
- 39 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 440 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Tawa Pav (Soft Bread Rolls Warmed in Butter) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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