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Matar Paneer is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Matar Paneer is something that I have loved my whole life.
Matar paneer is a restaurant style creamy, delicious and rich peas paneer curry. Matar paneer is one of India's most popular paneer dishes. In most Indian homes, it is made during winters when fresh peas are in season.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook matar paneer using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Matar Paneer:
- Take For Puree
- Make ready 1 onion roughly chopped
- Take 2 medium sized tomatoes chopped
- Make ready 2 green chillies chopped
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Get To taste salt
- Prepare 2 tsp oil
- Prepare Other Ingredients
- Prepare 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 inch Cinnamon Stick
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander powder
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala powder
- Get 200 gm paneer cut into cubes
- Take 100 gm green peas
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Get To taste salt
- Take 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Easy Matar Paneer Recipe: An everyday dish of cottage cheese and peas mingled in a rich, tomato gravy. Matar Paneer is a dish from India, made more often in North Indian homes in dinner menu or even for lunch. Matar Paneer Recipe - How to Make Restaurant Style Matar Paneer. For this recipe of matar paneer, I have used a gravy made of onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chilies and cashews.
Instructions to make Matar Paneer:
- To begin with heat 2 tsp oil in a pan on medium flame. Add onion and fry for 1-2 minutes. Then add ginger garlic paste and saute for a while. Next add green chillies, tomatoes and salt. Cook for 2-3 minutes till tomatoes turn soft. Turn off the flame. Let the onion-tomato mixture cool down a bit and then blend it to a fine puree without adding water. Keep it aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and gently stir fry the paneer cubes till light golden. Remove and keep aside.
- In the same pan heat the remaining oil. Add cinnamon, bay leaf and cumin seeds. Saute till they are aromatic.
- Then pour the above prepared onion-tomato puree. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and cumin powder. Saute all of these for a couple of minutes until the mixture comes together and turns thick. Keep stirring often till oil starts to ooze out from the sides.
- Next add the green peas and saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Then add 1 cup of water and mix well. Season with salt. Cook covered for 4-5 minutes
- Now add the fried paneer cubes. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook till the gravy thickens.
- Finally add the garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves. Cover and turn off the flame.
- Matar Paneer is ready for being served hot with roti, naan or rice.
Some people like a tomato only based gravy for matar paneer but I prefer using both here. The cashews give this dish a rich taste. Mattar paneer is a delicious Indian curry recipe made with peas and a soft cheese called paneer (although tofu is a good substitute). The sauce is similar to a butter chicken sauce and is so tasty. We've simplified the cooking method to make it easy to make and it's every bit as good as any restaurant mattar panner.
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