bhaji
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of bhaji
C19: from Hindi bhājī fried vegetables
Example Sentences
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She would frequent roadside stalls selling snacks like pav bhaji, a savory vegetable curry served on a bread roll; and pani puri, crispy palm-sized puris stuffed with potatoes, chickpeas and spicy flavored water.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2022
My Aunt Sonia is famous in our family for her pav bhaji, an ingeniously comforting carb-on-carb Mumbai street food featuring buttered buns topped with a spicy, coriander-heavy mashed potato gravy.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2019
Prasanna Prashad is watching a dance performance inside the New Jersey Exposition and Convention Center on Saturday while eating a plate of pav bhaji, a Mumbai street snack.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2016
They included some truly bizarre ones like pav bhaji - a thick vegetable curry usually prepared in butter and served with bread rolls - and chickpea-flavoured ice cream.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2016
We had my favorite spinach dish for dinner, sai bhaji with poori, and I ate up every last bit.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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