Matar Paneer Recipe
Delicious and mouth water matar paneer recipe cooked with tomatoes, onions and spices. One of the best paneer recipe
Servings: 4 People
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp oil
- 2 black cardamom badi elaichi
- 6 Cloves laung
- 25-30 black pepper
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 big onion
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp roasted jeera powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 2 tomato
- 1½ tsp salt or as per your taste
- 1 cup water
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1 bowl Peas matar
- 2 green chillies
- 100 gram paneer
- water
- 1 Pinch roasted Kasuri methi
Instructions
Making Gravy
- heat the Kadai and add 3 tbsp oil
- Now 2 big cardamom and add 6 cloves to it
- Now add 25 black pepper seeds to it.
- Add ½ tsp cumin seeds, and cook it. once it is cooked.
- Add 1 inch of finely chopped ginger to it.
- Add 1 chopped big onion and saute it.
- Now add ½ tsp haldi powder, 1 tsp cumin powder and 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Add 2 tsp coriander powder and mix it well.
- Add little water and stir it well. so that masala will not burn.
- Add 2 chopped tomatoes to it
- Now add 1.5 tsp salt to it. And mix it well.
- Cover it with a lid and cook it for a few minutes.
- Add half a cup of water.
- Now remove the badi elaichi, as its flavour already come to the dish.
- Cover it with a lid and cook it for a few minutes.
- Cool it down and make a fine paste in the mixer blender.
Shallow fry paneer
- On another gas stove, heat a pan and add some oil
- Add paneer cubes to it for shallow frying.
- Shallow fry it for a few seconds, once it cooks from one side turn it.
Making Matar Paneer
- Heat another kadai and add 2 tbsp ghee to it.
- Add 1 bowl of fresh peas to it.
- Add 2 finely chopped green chillies to it.
- Add a pinch of salt to it.
- And saute it for a few minutes.
- Cover the kadai with a lid and cook it for 5 to 7 minutes.
- Now add the paste of our tomatoes and masala to it.
- Add ½ cup of water to it.
- Mix it well and cook it on the low flames.
- Now add the shallow fry paneer to it.
- Add a pinch of roasted kasuri methi to it.
- Cover it with a lid and cook it for 5 to 7 minutes.
