Matar Paneer is a popular dish made with cottage cheese/paneer and fresh peas. It’s a delicious paneer curry and an all-time favourite food of many. There are different variations of cooking this; I’m sharing my version here, the way I love to cook Matar Paneer for us. I hope you’ll enjoy cooking this for your family too. 🙂
Matar Paneer
Fresh Cottage Cheese cubes/Paneer cooked with green peas in a delectable, spicy curry. Matar Paneer tastes best with Indian breads or Pulao.
Ingredients
- 300 grams- Paneer/Cottage Cheese cut into cubes
- 1 cup- Peas
- 1 large- Onion finely chopped
- ¼ cup- Tomato puree
- 1 tsp- Ginger paste
- ½ tsp- Cumin seeds
- 1- Dry red chilli halved
- Few slitted green chillies
- ½ tsp- Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp- Kashmiri mirch powder
- 1 tsp- Cumin powder
- 1 tbsp- Coriander powder
- ½ cup- Yogurt whisked
- Salt to taste
- ½ tsp- Garam masala powder
- 3 tbsp- Vegetable oil
- 1 tsp- Kasuri methi/Dried fenugreek leaves powdered
- 2 tbsp- Fresh coriander leaves finely chopped
- Fresh cream for garnishing (optional)
Instructions
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Heat oil in a deep frying pan/kadai. Temper with dry red chilli and cumin seeds. Add chopped onions, sauté on medium flame until light brown in colour.
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Nex to add ginger paste, kashmiri mirch powder, coriander powder, green chillies, cumin powder, salt and turmeric powder.
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Mix and stir on medium heat until the masala starts leaving oil. Now add the paneer cubes, peas, tomato puree and yogurt.
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Mix well, cover and cook for 4-5 minutes. Stir gently in between.
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Now add water, mix well, cover and cook on low heat until the raw smell of masala goes (max 12-15 minutes).
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Add garam masala powder and kasuri methi powder, mix gently and remove from heat. Garnish with coriander leaves and fresh cream.
If I skip the fresh cream..will it taste the same??
Hi Sampriti,
Fresh cream is for garnishing only, you can skip it.