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You are here: Home / Gravy Vegetarian Side Dishes / MATAR PANEER RECIPE – PANEER PEAS MASALA RECIPE

MATAR PANEER RECIPE – PANEER PEAS MASALA RECIPE

November 23, 2015 25 Comments


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.

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By nags Filed Under: Gravy Vegetarian Side Dishes, Green Peas Recipes, Paneer Recipes, Uncategorized

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  1. Anonymous

    December 23, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    looks yuummy,,,,

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  2. Anonymous

    July 27, 2012 at 11:00 am

    Hi Nags I always find you more beautiful then ur recipes.

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  3. Shillu

    April 1, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Looks Yummy! and I am sure it tasted great too!

    Reply
  4. FoodyGuru (Srimathi)

    September 11, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Hi Nags,

    I have something waiting for you in my site. Please do pick it up. Thank you.

    Reply
  5. zlamushka

    September 8, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    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 🙂

    Reply
  6. Shillu

    September 8, 2008 at 3:15 am

    I tried this yday & it was lovely!!! thanks to u – i now learnt 1 dish to flaunt!

    Reply
  7. Swapna

    September 7, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Matar Paneer looks yummy…..nice click!!!

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  8. Laavanya

    September 6, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Matar Paneer is always a winning combination …. looks yummy.

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  9. Spices N Aroma

    September 6, 2008 at 5:46 am

    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

    Reply
  10. Shillu

    September 5, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Looks Yummy! and I am sure it tasted great too!

    Reply
  11. Rosie

    September 4, 2008 at 7:10 am

    This looks wonderful Nags 🙂

    Rosie x

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  12. Divya Vikram

    September 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Looks perfect gal..

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  13. Fearless Kitchen

    September 2, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    This looks delicious. I really like matar paneer, but I’ve never tried to make it before.

    Reply
  14. Srivalli

    September 2, 2008 at 4:53 am

    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…:)

    Reply
  15. A_and_N

    September 2, 2008 at 12:12 am

    😀 TH must have loved it no?

    Reply
  16. Sonu

    September 1, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    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:)

    Reply
  17. Nags

    September 2, 2008 at 2:52 am

    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 😀

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  18. Nags

    September 2, 2008 at 2:50 am

    TH felt it was too thick. I love it that way! Maybe next time I will avoid the cashewnuts. Should work then 🙂

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  19. notyet100

    September 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    nd bee is so right about mustafa,..:-)

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  20. notyet100

    September 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    nice version of matar paneer..nd nice click too,,

    Reply
  21. bee

    September 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    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.

    Reply
  22. Rosie

    September 1, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    This looks lovely Nags!

    Rosie x

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  23. easycrafts

    September 1, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    yum…looks perfect, must have tasted too

    Reply
  24. SMN

    September 1, 2008 at 11:32 am

    hey that is nice one looks yummy

    Reply
  25. arundati

    September 1, 2008 at 9:17 am

    looks good!!

    Reply

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