Matar Paneer is housewife’s style of romance with green peas…. Try this creamy tomato sauce based curry dish and enjoy the real taste of this vegetarian Indian delight…

Ingredients:

• 500 gms of diced paneer
• 2 cups boiled green peas
• 2 medium onions chopped
• 2 medium sized tomatoes chopped
• ½ tspn turmeric powder
• 1 tspn chilli powder
• ½ tspn cumin powder
• ½ tspn coriander powder
• 1 tspn ginger and garlic paste
• 4 – 5 pcs of raw cashew nuts
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 tbspn butter
• Some water
• ½ cup cream
• Some salt
• Some green chillies chopped
• Some fresh coriander leaves
• ½ tspn cumin seeds
• A pinch of fenugreek leaves
• 2 cloves
• 2 cardamom
• 1 pc of cinnamon stick
• 1 small bay leaf

Procedure:

-Fry onions and cashew nuts for 2 minutes and add a bit of salt along with ginger garlic paste.

-When onion leaves the raw flavor, add turmeric and tomatoes. Cook the mixture on low heat.

-Put this in blender and blend. Add a bit of water if needed and blend this mixture into fine paste.

-Heat some oil in the vessel and add cardamom, bay leaf, cinnamon and cloves. Fry for 30 seconds and add the blended paste in it. After simmering for about 2 minutes on medium heat add peas and let the sauce simmer again for 2 minutes. Not add all the other spices and mix well.

-After 2 minutes add cheese and cumin seeds and garnish with green chillies and coriander leaves.

-Serve hot with nan bread or chapattis and enjoy.

Outcome:

Tasty Mattar paneer is ready to serve.

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Tips:

-Add 4 – 5 pcs of cashew nuts, no more no less otherwise your sauce will not come out to the rite consistency.

Servings:

This will serve 4 persons easily.