Please check out my new and improved Matar Paneer Recipe before you try this recipe.
I had been meaning to make Paneer Matar for a while and had some left over paneer after making palak paneer. I always have frozen peas in the fridge, though my mom keeps telling me I should get fresh ones. Well, I will if I find them around, but till then, frozen ones will do. They are just so convenient!
I have also been planning to make paneer at home (update: I made paneer at home!) one of these days. But my lazy self found that Mustafa Stores in Singapore stores paneer (among everything else under the sun!) so I am happily buying and stocking up on frozen Amul Paneer cubes.
Anyway, I have the recipe below, the way I modified it but I have stuck to it pretty much entirely.
MATAR PANEER RECIPE
Serves 2-3
Inspired by Recipe from Jugalbandi
Ingredients for Matar Paneer:
Paneer – 2 cups, fried a light brown.
Green peas – 1 cup
Chopped onions – 1 cup
Chopped ginger – 1 tsp
Chopped garlic – 2 tsp
Tomatoes, pureed – 2 cups
Capsicum/green bell pepper – 1/4 cup, diced (optional – changes flavour of the dish)
Red chilli powder – 2 tsp
Cumin powder – 1 tsp
All-purpose curry masala – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Milk cream – 2 tbsp
Chopped cashew nuts – 2 tbsp
Sugar – 1 tsp
Butter / ghee (clarified butter) – 1 tbsp
Oil – 1 tbsp
How to make Matar Paneer:
1. Dunk the onions in boiling water and cook for a minute. Make a paste of this with ginger, garlic and cashews without adding water.
2. Heat the oil and butter in a deep pan. Add the onion puree and a pinch of salt. Fry it on a medium flame until the paste turns light brown and starts drying out a bit (7 minutes or so).
4. Add the chilli powder, turmeric and tomato puree. Cook for five minutes on medium.
5. Add the peas. (If using frozen peas, microwave on HIGH for a minute, just to thaw and add them at the very end). This is what I did.
6. Add the cumin and curry masala powders. Add salt to taste and cook until the mixture becomes a little thicker than the consistency you desire in the final dish.
7. Add the cream and sugar. Stir, taste for salt and seasonings, then add the paneer cubes (save a few for garnish).
8. Heat it through, turn off the flame.
9. Keep it covered for 15 minutes for the flavours to blend together.
I served the matar paneer with chapatis.
looks yuummy,,,,
Hi Nags I always find you more beautiful then ur recipes.
Looks Yummy! and I am sure it tasted great too!
Hi Nags,
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Hi there,
love your entry, thank you so much. I hope you are participating next time as well. Just a tiny little correction – TRIED & TASTED is the name of my event, Taste & Create is run by Nicole of For the love of food 🙂
I tried this yday & it was lovely!!! thanks to u – i now learnt 1 dish to flaunt!
Matar Paneer looks yummy…..nice click!!!
Matar Paneer is always a winning combination …. looks yummy.
Hi Nags
I am visiting your page for the first time. It looks absolutely fantastic!! way to go.
This dish looks yummy…gonna try it this weekend
Looks Yummy! and I am sure it tasted great too!
This looks wonderful Nags 🙂
Rosie x
Looks perfect gal..
This looks delicious. I really like matar paneer, but I’ve never tried to make it before.
looks wonderful nags…
btw just saw a bachelors cooking here..strange it never registered before..heheh..or else I would’ve sent those requests here…:)
😀 TH must have loved it no?
nice entry nags! I also did give a hit to Jugalbandi’s Matar-Paneer recipe…it’s just superb! their recipe is so simple yet very yummy:)
bee – about mustafa, its definitely crowded, especially the food section. But its open 24hours a day, 7 days a week so we choose strategic times, like Friday evenings! People are too busy partying and pubbing to bother about their grocery shopping 😉
But even then the food section is crowded. I mean the lentils, rice section. TH refuses to come anywhere near it and stands at a safe distance while I brave the crowd and come out victorious with my chana/rajma/toor dal/atta packet 😀
TH felt it was too thick. I love it that way! Maybe next time I will avoid the cashewnuts. Should work then 🙂
nd bee is so right about mustafa,..:-)
nice version of matar paneer..nd nice click too,,
hey nags, how can you move in mustafa? we went there a couple of times and boy, it’s so crowded and claustrophobic, it’s freaking scary. glad you liked the matar paneer.
This looks lovely Nags!
Rosie x
yum…looks perfect, must have tasted too
hey that is nice one looks yummy
looks good!!