Matar paneer recipe |hotel style punjabi green peas panir masala with paneer

Matar Paneer is an extremely popular North Indian dish and is considered as a special side dish among most veggies across India. I tried to prepare it in many different ways so as to get the restaurant-style taste and guess what, this time I succeeded to create something much better.

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh Green Peas(matar)(or you can use dried green peas by soaking it overnight).

1 cup Paneer (cottage cheese) cubes

1 Large Onion (grated)

1 tbsp. Ginger garlic paste

2 Slitted green chili

2 tbsp tomato puree/tomato sauce.

1/2 tsp. Cumin seeds

1 tsp.turmeric power

1 tsp Red chili powder

1 tsp. Coriander powder

1 tsp. Garam masala powder

2 tsp dahi (yoghurt)

1 tsp hing

1 tsp Sugar

Salt (as per taste)

Coriander leaves (finely chopped))

Method:

1 Cut the paneer into cubes. Heat oil in a pan any fry the paneer until becomes soft and light golden color. Remove from heat and keep aside.

2. Boil the green peas in a cup of water adding a pinch of salt and sugar.

3.Heat oil in a large pan. Add onion cubes & tomato pieces & Saute until the onion becomes golden brown.Finally let it cool down & grind to a fine paste in a mixie.

4 Heat oil, next add hing & 1tspn cumin seeds (jeera).

5 Once jeera crackles add red chili powder ginger garlic paste,green chilies, turmeric powder, , coriander powder,garam masala and little water

6 . Fry the masala for sometime until oil get separated from it. Now add salt Sugar and onion & tomato puree and finally boiled peas. Whisk 2 tspn dahi & add to above mixture. Stir continuously and cook for 5 to 6 minutes.

7. Finally add paneer pieces and 1/2 cup water.Add garam masala and cook for another 5 minutes and then allow it to simmer for about 8 minutes.

8 when the curry becomes semi dry remove it from heat. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.

9.Serve hot with Chappathis, naan, pooris or with plain rice

Tip:

Add 1/2 tablespoon dried fenugreek leaves(kasuri methi) to the gravy when cooking.

Gravy can also be prepared by substituting cashewnut with onion & following the remaining process