Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, matar paneer. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. 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 popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Matar Paneer is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have matar paneer using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Matar Paneer:
- Prepare 1 onion, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 medium tomato, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 Thai chilli pepper, finely chopped
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon ginger+garlic paste
- Prepare 350 grams paneer, cut into cubes
- Prepare 1/4 cup green peas
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Kashmiri chilli powder
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Get 1/4 teaspoon coriander powder
- Take 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Get 2 tablespoons oil or ghee, divided
- Prepare 1 inch cinnamon
- Make ready 2 cardamom pods
- Take 2 cloves
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Get 1 dried red chilli
Matar paneer has paneer and matar/ green peas as main ingredients. 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.
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.
Matar paneer is a delicious curry made of paneer cubes and fresh peas cooked in a rich, spicy and tangy gravy. Matar paneer is one of my favorite North Indian dishes. Soft paneer and green peas cooked in onion tomato gravy. Tastes best with roti and rice. Mattar paneer is a rich, creamy, saucy, and slightly spicy tomato-based curry made with green peas and paneer.
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