Matar Paneer – Cottage Cheese and Peas Curry
Matar (peas) Paneer (cottage cheeses) is one of the most popular North Indian dish. And it’s one of my most favorite dishes too. Back home in India, whenever I go to a restaurant I used to order matar paneer or paneer butter masala and naan without skipping a beat. My family and friends used to tease me for it.
I always wanted to try matar paneer in my kitchen. I’ve tried Butter paneer masala so many times but never tried matar paneer. So I tried making matar paneer and it came out awesome, if I say so myself. As usual my best critic (my husband) loved it. Try this yummy recipe and definitely you will love it too.
Ingredients:
- Paneer cubes / Cottage cheese : 2 cups (fried paneer)
- Green Peas : 1/2 cup (I’ve used frozen green peas)
- Oil : 2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
- Bay leaves : 1
- Cinnamon stick : 1/2 “
- Red chili powder : 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder : 1/2 tsp
- Coriander Powder : 2 tsp
- Kasuri methi : 3/4 tsp ( dry fenugreek leaves)
- Heavy cream : 1/4 cup
- Garam masala powder : 1/4 tsp
- Onion : 1 1/2 cups
- Tomato : 2 (finely chopped)
- Green chilies : 4-5 ( according to your spice level)
- Ginger : 1 1/2 ” (chopped)
- Salt : according to your taste
Method Of Preparation :
- Heat oil in a kadai add onions, ginger and green chilies. Fry them for few minutes.
- After that add chili powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder fry them for 3-4 minutes in simmer flame.
- Finally add the tomatoes, salt and garam masala powder sautee them for another 4-5 minutes.
- Remove from heat let it cool and after that grind the whole mixture into coarse paste by adding little water .
- Now heat the same kadai with remaining oil and add cumin seeds, bay leaves and cinnamon stick.
- After it sputters add the ground paste into it and cook them in low flame.
- Bring them to boil and after that add kasuri methi and green peas.
- Cook them for about 4-5 minutes and add the fried paneer cubes into them.
- Cover it with lid and cook them for another 4-5 minutes.
- Finally add the heavy cream and bring them into boil. Remove from heat.
- Serve it hot with naan and roti.
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shriya,
Matter paneer is rich and creamy delicious
Thanks swathi, oriya and pranis for your sweet comments !!
looks so creamy n delicious..nice picture …feel to taste …
You have an awesome banner and I love the curry pics! yummm….
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What a loely site you have…
Wonderful matar paneer looks soooooo rich and yummy.. hey the header is awesome too..
Thanks preeti and pavithra for the header comments. I am glad you guys liked it.
Preeti sure I’ll send this to your event.
Looks yummmmmy!
Hi Shreya…
Thnx for visiting my blog..Your blog is lovely i should say and so are the pics..Mattar Paneer just looks so great…
This used to be my fav one before marriage, my mom used to do it for me on my b’day as it was my fav, could have it anytime…but now after i came to uk i havent tried it many times…yours look fantastic shriya,very tempting one for sure and brought back many memories too…
Wooow!!! Paneer n peas curry looks delicious n rich n creamy dear…well presented makes me hungry sure it will taste good for fried rice, pulao esp rotis..
This is one of our top favorites! I’d munch with chapathi!
Matar paneer looks absolutely delicious and I loved your clicks, Shriya 🙂
Lovely matar paneer Shriya. And you guys have a great website here.
Mattar paneer is superb…looks so rich and creamy 🙂
Hi Shriya,
So yummy and delcious paneer..Perfect clicks too!
Gald to follow you dear..:)
Gorgeous looking gravy, good job. Must try for Sunday lunch!:)
Love this…yours look rich n creamy n yummy..:-) Nice clicks Shriya !
am drooling
Thanks ladies for your fabulous comments.
wow that looks delicious!
matar paneer looks delicious and is always a favorite with me. a very tempting click too.
wow… rich and creamy dish… nice recipe..
Thanks simply life, PJ, and adukalavisesham for visiting ST and leaving your lovely comments.
Whooo, this looks super rich, delicious. awesoem presentation…just wann dive right into it, hehe
Wow….matar paneer looks awesome and super. Lovely pic.
Thanks Shriya for the wonderful recipe. It really was delicious even though I replaced paneer with tofu.
My wife made this curry. Yum 😉
Looks yummy. Will definitely try this out. Thanks for the recipe.