Mattar Paneer

For this week Blog hop Wednesday , I went  to Ramya’s recipe index, I searched for paneer recipe. I got this awesome recipe “Mattar Paneer “, She has a good and wonderful blog . My version of Mattar paneer was  little bit different from hers. So I tried hers  and it was simply superb for plain parathas which I had for dinner yesterday.

Ingredients

Green Peas/Matar – ½ cup

Paneer cubes - 100 gm

For paste

Onion – 1 chopped

Cumin seeds – ½ tsp

Cardamom – 2 no

Cloves – 2 no

Cinnamon – ½ inch piece

Black Pepper corns – 5no

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Tomato - 1 no chopped

Chilly powder - ½  tsp

Turmeric powder - ¼  tsp

Garam masala powder – 1 tsp

Garnishing

Fresh cream - 1-2 tbsp

Coriander leaves chopped - to garnish

Oil

Salt

Method

Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, cardamom,cloves,cinnamon and pepper corns. Saute for few seconds.  Add onions and saute well. Add ginger garlic paste and saute well . Add tomatoes, salt, turmeric, chilly and garam masala powder, and saute till tomatoes are soft and oil leaves the whole mass.

Switch off the stove , Allow it to cool. Grind to a smooth paste without adding water.

Heat a little oil in a pan and saute the ground  masala paste for a few minutes. Add ½  cup of water and bring it to boil. Add the green pea’s .Cover and cook till green peas are almost done. Now add the paneer cubes and combine well. Cook for some time. Add fresh cream and combine well. Garnish with coriander leaves. Yummy curry is ready. Enjoy with parathas or chappathi.

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