Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, matar paneer. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Matar paneer is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Matar paneer is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have matar paneer using 22 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Matar paneer:
- Take 1 cup fresh green peas
- Prepare 1 /2 -3/4 cup paneer pieces
- Prepare For gravy :
- Make ready To grind to paste :
- Prepare 2 tsp oil
- Get 1 big onion finely chopped
- Get 2 green chillies
- Take 1 " ginger
- Make ready 6-8 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare 2 dry red chillies
- Prepare 1 small cinnamon stick
- Get 2 tomatoes chopped
- Take 1 tbsp dhania jeera powder
- Make ready Other ingredients:
- Get 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 tsp cummin seeds
- Make ready 2 small bay leaves
- Get 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp sugar (to add during boiling green peas)
- Make ready leaves Finely chopped fresh coriander
Here is a simple matar paneer recipe punjabi style. Matar paneer is a regular dish in Punjabi households. It is ubiquitious dish and goes very well rice, puri and rice. Heat the oil in a frying pan over high heat until it's shimmering hot.
Steps to make Matar paneer:
- Boil fresh green peas with sugar & salt till tender. Strain and keep aside.
- On another gas flame,In kadhai add heat 2 tsp oil. Add chopped onion,ginger, chillies, garlic saute for few minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes,dry chillies, cinnamon stick, dhania jeera powder,mix and saute until tomato pieces are tender.
- Cool this sauted vegetables and grind it in mixer to make smooth paste.
- In same kadhai add & heat 2 tbsp oil, add cummin seeds and bay leaves. As cummin seeds splutter,add grinded Onion Tomato paste. Mix well and saute till oil leaves from the mixture.
- Add turmeric powder,red chilli powder salt. Mix well. Add boiled peas and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add paneer cubes (you can fry and add). Mix gently. Add 3/4- 1 cup of water. Simmer for 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve /Relish Matar-Paneer with Roti/ Paratha/ Naan.
Add the paneer, then turn the heat down a little. 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 is a delicious curry made of paneer cubes and fresh peas cooked in a rich, spicy and tangy gravy.
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