Matar Paneer Recipe | Tomato Cottage Cheese Curry
Indian Cuisine
Matar Paneer is eaten all over India. Matar which means peas and paneer is cottage cheese. This is a traditional matar paneer recipe made with tomatoes, Peas, onion and of course paneer or cottage cheese.
Ingredients
- 200 gms Paneer - 1 piece
- 5 tbsp cooking oil
- 2 Onions
- 1/2 tsp Garam masala
- 2 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 2 Bay leaves
- 250 gms Green peas
- 2 tsp Cumin powder
- 2 Dry red chillies
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 Tomato
- 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 1.5 tsp coriander powder
Instructions
- 1
Take 2 tbsp oil in pan. Cut 200 gms paneer (Cottage Cheese) in small cubes and fry them from all sides.
- 2
Add the fried paneer cubes immediately in cold salt water. This will help the paneer cubes remain soft or else they will turn hard.
- 3
Now take the remaining oil we used to fry the paneer cubes.
- 4
Add 2 small chopped onions, 4-5 garlic cloves and 2-3 pieces of ginger in it and cook them till the onions turn light brown or golden.
- 5
Add 1 medium size diced tomato to the mixture and cook them together. Add 1 tsp salt the mixture so that tomatoes cook fast.
- 6
Cook everything together till the tomatoes turn mushy.
- 7
Get the mixture out of the pan. Let it cool down. Now add it to blender.
- 8
Add 2-3 tbsp of water to the mixture and blend the mixture till it becomes a fine paste. Keep this aside.
- 9
Take 1.5 tsp turmeric a small bowl.
- 10
Add 2 tsp chili powder to it
- 11
Add 2 tsp coriander (dhanya) powder to it
- 12
Add 2 tbsp water to the mixture and mix everything together to turn it into a fine paste. Keep this mixture aside.
- 13
Take 2 tbsp oil in a hot pan and let the oil get hot.
- 14
Add 2 bay leaves, 2 dried red chilies, 1 tbsp cumin (jeera) seeds to it and fry everything together for a minute.
- 15
After the cumin seeds turn brown , lower the flame and add the spice mixture that we created to it.
- 16
Cook everything together for a couple of minutes.
- 17
Turn the flame to medium and add the onion tomato mixture that we created to it and cook everything together.
- 18
After a few minutes, the color of the mixture will change.
- 19
Add 250 gms of peas to the mixture and mix everything together and cook it for a couple of minutes.
- 20
Add 2 cups water to the mixture and let it cook for a few minutes till the curry comes to boil.
- 21
Add the paneer cubes we prepared to the curry. Add 1 tsp salt the curry.
- 22
Cover the curry with a lid and let it cook for about 10 minutes.
- 23
Remove the lid. Your curry is almost ready
- 24
Add 1/2 tsp garam masala to the curry.
- 25
Add finely chopped coriander leaves to curry and mix it well.
- 26
Your curry is ready. Serve it hot with chapati or bread. Enjoy!!
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