Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, matar paneer. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Matar paneer or mutter paneer made in restaurant style with video & stepwise photos. Delicious, creamy rich paneer peas gravy to make your meal special. In fact matar paneer is one of the most popular paneer dishes from North India.
Matar Paneer is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Matar Paneer is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook matar paneer using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Matar Paneer:
- Take 1 onion, finely chopped
- Make ready 1 medium tomato, finely chopped
- Take 1 Thai chilli pepper, finely chopped
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon ginger+garlic paste
- Make ready 350 grams paneer, cut into cubes
- Prepare 1/4 cup green peas
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Kashmiri chilli powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Get 1/4 teaspoon coriander powder
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 2 tablespoons oil or ghee, divided
- Make ready 1 inch cinnamon
- Make ready 2 cardamom pods
- Make ready 2 cloves
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Take 1 dried red chilli
The combination of peas, tomatoes and paneer gives this dish a subtle sweetness which enhances the taste of this flavored dish. Soft paneer and green peas cooked in onion tomato gravy. Tastes best with roti and rice. Matar paneer has paneer and matar/ green peas as main ingredients.
Instructions to make Matar Paneer:
- Heat 1 tbsp ghee on medium heat.
- Add cumin seeds, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves. Fry until cumin darkens slightly.
- Add green chillies.
- Add onions, and fry till golden, add salt to hasten cooking.
- Add ginger+garlic, fry for 1 minute.
- Add tomatoes and stir. Cover for 2 minutes, or until tomatoes get mashed up.
- Add powdered spices - turmeric, Kashmiri chilli, cumin, coriander, garam masala - stir.
- Empty this mixture into a blender, and make a thick paste.
- Wipe out the pan with a paper towel, add 1/2 tablespoon of ghee or oil. Add 1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds, and a dried red chilli, followed by the gravy base.
- Keep stirring until the mixture thickens and starts to slide easily in the pan. Add 250-300 mL hot water. Simmer for 3 minutes.
- In another pan, fry paneer cubes till lightly golden. Set aside.
- Add blanched peas to gravy, followed by paneer, and stir.
- Serve with roti, paratha, or rice.
I tried this recipe after I tasted this at my friend Sangeeta's place. Loved it very much and asked her the recipe for it. Matar Paneer (Mutter Paneer), a delicious combination of soft paneer and healthy green peas in a mild spicy tomato based gravy, is a treat to taste buds at anytime. The BEST, home-style Punjabi matar paneer recipe. Paneer and peas curry is a popular North Indian recipe that you find in almost all restaurant menu.
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