Bhaji Pav
Vegetables slow-mashed with our signature masala, finished with butter and served with warm pav.
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Everything below is cooked at 9178 W 159th St, Orland Park. Pure vegetarian throughout — Jain, Swaminarayan and vegan preparations on request, and no food colouring anywhere on this page.
The dish the whole place was built on — vegetables mashed down on the tawa with our own masala, finished with butter, served with soft pav.
Vegetables slow-mashed with our signature masala, finished with butter and served with warm pav.
The bhaji with a second, sweeter spice blend, cashews and raisins folded through.
Pav split, buttered and griddled in bhaji masala, served with the curry alongside.
The same griddled pav, seasoned with spice and served without the curry.
Bhaji pav under a blanket of melted cheese.
Steamed basmati cooked through with vegetables and whole spice.
Our pulav with a sweeter spice blend, cashews and raisins.
Pulav finished on the tawa with spiced paneer and pav masala.
Sweet, sour, sharp and crunchy. Assembled the moment you order so nothing ever sits and goes soft.
Crisp wheat shells, spiced potato and chilled mint-jeera water, poured at the counter.
Flat puri loaded with potato, onion, three chutneys and a heavy fall of fine sev.
Puffed rice tossed to order with date-mango sauce, green chutney and raw onion.
Puri shells filled with potato, sweetened yoghurt and assorted chutneys.
Crisp papdi, potato, chickpea, yoghurt and tamarind, built in the bowl in front of you.
Samosa broken open under chickpeas, yoghurt, chutneys and sev.
Soft lentil vada soaked in sweetened yoghurt, cumin and tamarind.
The king of chaat — a hollow kachori packed with potato, sprouts, yoghurt and chutney.
Griddled potato tikki under chole, yoghurt and tamarind.
Two hand-folded samosas, thick pastry, coarse potato-pea filling, fried to order.
Batata vada in pav with dry garlic chutney and a fried chilli on the side.
Kutchi pav packed with sweet-spiced potato, pomegranate, roasted peanuts and dabeli masala.
Pressed, stacked and grilled. Regular or grilled, and every one of them can take extra cheese.
Cucumber, tomato, onion, beetroot and potato with green chutney. Regular or grilled.
A heavy hand of cheese, grilled until it pulls.
Coriander-mint chutney, butter and soft white bread.
Green chutney and cheese, pressed together on the grill.
The plain one, done properly. Butter, salt, pepper.
Grated chocolate melted between grilled bread — the after-school order.
Our house sandwich: pineapple jam, vegetables and cheese.
Three layers, three sauces, cheese and vegetables throughout.
Four layers, each with a different sauce, cheese and vegetables. Served with chips.
The spicy one — schezwan, green chilli and cheese.
Batter fermented overnight, crisped on a seasoned griddle, served with sambhar and chutney.
Rice-and-lentil crepe crisped in ghee, with sambhar and chutney.
The same crepe, filled with soft potato and onion masala.
Dosa spread with hot red Mysore chutney before it comes off the griddle.
Mysore chutney under the potato masala. The hottest dosa we make.
Dosa with cheese folded through the fill.
Red chutney, potato masala and cheese, all in one crepe.
Dosa rolled tight around a spring-vegetable filling, cut into rounds and served with four chutneys.
Char-grilled paneer tikka rolled into a crisp dosa.
Our fusion dosa — vegetables, cheese and a spice mix the kitchen refuses to write down.
Cracked-wheat batter, lacy and brittle.
Rava crepe filled with potato and onion masala.
Rava crepe scattered with onion and green chilli.
Thick rice-lentil pancake, soft in the middle.
Uttapam pressed with onion as it cooks.
Onion, green pepper and chilli worked into the batter.
Uttapam under a full mix of chopped vegetables.
Two steamed rice cakes, sambhar and coconut chutney.
The Bombay-Chinese corner: wok heat, garlic, ginger and schezwan.
Peppery, sharp, thickened, with vegetables cut fine.
Dark garlic broth under a pile of fried noodles.
Mild, thick and sweet with whole corn.
Vegetable dumplings fried crisp, tossed with garlic, ginger and dark soy.
Cauliflower fried crisp and tossed in the same wok sauce.
The dumplings simmered in a glossy onion-garlic gravy.
Paneer and green pepper tossed with onion and garlic until the edges blister. Dry or gravy.
Batter-fried paneer tossed with curry leaf and chilli.
Fried noodles tossed with shredded vegetables and chilli sauce — Bombay's own invention.
Rice tossed hard in a smoking wok with vegetables.
Fried rice turned up with our own schezwan sauce.
Fried rice, noodles and manchurian gravy on one plate, three sauces deep.
Noodles tossed with julienned vegetables and Chinese seasoning.
Hakka noodles with schezwan sauce through them.
Hakka noodles under vegetable manchurian.
Noodles tossed with chilli, garlic and spring onion.
Slow gravies built on onion, tomato and whole spice. Cooked to order, never held on a steam table.
Yoghurt-marinated paneer and peppers, skewered and char-grilled — served hanging at the table.
The same skewers, marinated in mint instead.
House paneer in a tomato-cashew gravy, finished with butter and a little cream.
Char-grilled paneer and peppers dropped into a smoky onion-tomato masala.
Spinach cooked down with ginger and green chilli, paneer folded in at the end.
Paneer and whole cashews in a mild, rich onion gravy.
Paneer and potato dumplings in a sweet cashew gravy.
Butter masala made richer with cheese through the gravy.
Mixed vegetables in a dark, fiery Kolhapuri masala.
Mushrooms cooked down in onion, tomato and whole spice.
Cashews simmered with khoya — Gujarati wedding food.
Kathiawadi tomato curry finished with a fall of sev.
Chickpeas cooked dark with tea, tamarind and whole spice.
Fenugreek and peas in a mild cream gravy.
Mixed vegetables finished hard on the tawa with pav bhaji masala.
Black lentils held overnight on low heat with butter and cream.
Yellow dal under a hot ghee tempering of cumin, garlic and dried chilli.
Basmati tempered with cumin and ghee.
Rice and vegetables layered and finished on dum under a sealed lid.
Chilled yoghurt with crisp boondi and roasted cumin.
Yoghurt with cucumber, tomato and onion.
Straight off the tandoor wall once you have ordered.
Whole-wheat roti off the tandoor wall, brushed with butter.
Soft tandoori naan, blistered where it met the clay.
Naan finished with butter as it comes off the skewer.
Naan pressed with garlic and coriander before baking.
Naan studded with green chilli. It earns the name.
Garlic, green chilli and coriander, all on one naan.
Naan stuffed with cheese, torn best straight from the basket.
Whole-wheat paratha stuffed with spiced potato.
Paratha stuffed with crumbled, spiced paneer.
Kulcha layered with onion and coriander.
Handkerchief-thin roti, folded at the table.
Butter roti, butter naan, garlic naan and kulcha for the table.
A full plate — curry, bread, rice and something sweet at the end.
Curries, dal, rice, breads, papad, pickle, salad and something sweet at the end.
Chickpea curry with bhature straight out of the fryer, achar, salad and a gulab jamun.
Chickpeas with small puris — the lighter, older cousin of chole bhature.
Spiced potato curry with hot puris.
The counter food: puffs, dhokla, fries and our hand-crafted bhakri pizza.
Flaky pastry around spiced vegetables, baked to order.
The puff, with a hotter masala through the filling.
Potato vada fried in gram-flour batter, served with fried chilli.
Steamed gram-flour cake, sweet-sour, tempered with mustard and curry leaf.
Salted, hot, and gone before the mains arrive.
Fries under melted cheese and a dust of masala.
A crisp bhakri base with onion, capsicum and cheese — the Gujarati school-holiday classic.
Bhakri pizza baked again under a second layer of cheese.
Kulfi, falooda and ice cream made the way the first shop made them.
Warm khoya dumplings soaked through with cardamom syrup.
Soft paneer discs in saffron milk, cold, with pistachio.
Carrots cooked down in milk and ghee until dark and sticky.
Milk reduced for hours, frozen dense on a stick. No churn, no air.
Kulfi through with almond and pistachio.
Rose syrup, vermicelli, basil seed, cold milk and a scoop of ice cream.
Saffron and pistachio falooda, built in the same tall glass.
The same glass, on alphonso mango.
Falooda with a whole kulfi dropped in.
Layered cassata, cut thick.
Chocobar, mango, santastic or kachha pakka aam.
Raj bhog, kesar pista, chikoo, butterscotch, kaju anjeer, mango, chocolate, vanilla.
Thick shakes, cold lassi, fresh juice and mocktails.
Thick set yoghurt blended with alphonso pulp. Poured, not shaken.
Yoghurt, sugar and a dusting of cardamom.
Salted buttermilk with cumin, curry leaf and green chilli.
Alphonso blended thick with cold milk.
Cashew and fig blended into cold milk until it drinks like dessert.
Chocolate, hazelnut and ice cream. Dessert in a glass.
Saffron and pistachio, the way the sweet shop makes it.
Blue lagoon, virgin mojito, masala soda — made fresh at the counter.
Orange, sugarcane, pineapple, carrot — pressed to order.
Boiled long with ginger, cardamom and clove.
Betel leaf, gulkand and dry fruit — the way the meal is meant to end.
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Before you order
Our kitchens handle dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, coconut, wheat, gluten and sesame. Tell the counter about an allergy and we will tell you honestly whether we can cook around it.
Everything is made to order, so a full table takes around 35 minutes. Photographs show the dish as we plate it — yours will be close, never identical.
No online checkout yet: call 708-981-3415 and we will take it from there.
