In a bowl take warm milk, add sugar and dry yeast. Let it rest for 15 minutes until the yeast activates. The milk mixture will turn frothy once the yeast activates.

Take Maida/Plain flour and salt, sieve it together in a mixing bowl, now slowly add the activated milk to the flour and knead into a soft dough for 5 minutes. Add more warm milk if needed, to form a soft dough.

Make sure you knead dough gently. Add 1 tbsp of butter to the dough and knead it.

Cover the dough with foil or cling wrap and rest the dough for 1 hour. The dough will double up.

After an hour punch the raised dough and knead it again.

Now take a small ball size dough, tuck the ball and keep it in a greased tray. Let the dough ball rest for 20 mins. Make sure you keep a gap between the dough balls as it will rise again.

The dough balls are now ready. Before placing the tray in microwave brush some milk on dough balls.

Preheat the oven for 5 minutes. After the oven is heated place the tray. Set the temperature to 200° for 20 minutes on convection mode.

After 20 minutes, do not switch off the microwave from the main switch. It will still release some hot air which will help pav to be cooked. It may take a max of 5 minutes.

The pav is now nicely cooked. Remove the tray from microwave, be careful as the plate will be hot. Brush the butter on the cooked pav and cover the pav with a wet cloth for 20 minutes to make it soft.

Your homemade ladi pav is now ready. Enjoy it with Bhaji or misal or maska.