Recipes2Taste: Matar Paneer Gravy Recipe

Matar paneer is a famous north Indian dish made with paneer and peas. It is usually served with Roti, Chapati, Paratha, Puri/Pooris and also goes well with rice and pulao.

Preparation Time: 30 min

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Matar (Green Peas) 1 small cup

Paneer (Indian cottage cheese): 150 gms

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Cumin seeds 1 tbl spoon

Oil 2 tbl spoon

Onions 1 big onion finely chopped

Tomatoes 3-4

Green Chillies 2-3

Garam masala

Coriander powder 1 tbl spn

Almond/Cashew nuts 7-8

Turmeric powder 1/4 tbl spn

Ginger Garlic paste 1 tbl spn

For garnishing

Finely chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

Preparation process:

Keep cashew nuts in hot water for soaking about 10 minutes and grind it with less water.

Boil tomatoes in water for about 4 minutes. filter the water and keep it to cool. Take out the skin and puree it.

Make paneer into cubes, soak them in hot water with a pinch of salt for 5 minutes to retain the freshness.

Boil peas for 5 min by adding a pinch of salt to get the softness in peas.

Now keep ready boiled peas, paneer, cashew nut paste tomato puree, and all the required ingredients.

Step by step method:

Heat oil in a pan , add jeera seeds, finely chopped onions and saute until light brown. Stir continuously for browning. and add Ginger garlic paste 1 tbl spoon and stirr it.

Then add tomato puree and turmeric powder garam masala (measures mentioned in top) coriander powder. stir the mixture until tomato puree absorbs/oozes oil and gently stirr it

Now add the cashew nut paste, and paneer cubes and Boiled peas to the pan and stirr continuously so that paneer and peas will get mixed up well with the masalas as mentioned in picture