Description
Paneer and green peas cooked in sweet tomato onion gravy. Authentic punjabi version, which I learned from a good friend of mine. (Matar Paneer / Mutter Paneer)| Ingredients-1 | |
|---|---|
| 2 cup | Paneer (cubed) |
| ½ cup | Green peas |
| 4 nos | Tomato (ripe and juicy) |
| ½ inch | Ginger (cut them into fine strips) |
| ½ tsp | Kasturi methi |
| 1 tsp | Cumin seeds |
| ¼ tsp | Turmeric powder |
| 1 tsp | Red chilli powder |
| 3 tsp | Coriander /dhania powder |
| ½ tsp | Garam masala powder |
| 1 cup | Whey |
| 1 tsp | Salt (or to taste) |
| 1 tsp | Butter or ghee |
| 2 tbsp | Oil |
| 1 pinch | Sugar |
| Ingredients-2 | |
|---|---|
| 3 nos | Onion (white or yellow) |
| 1 no | Green chilli |
| ½ inch | Ginger |
Instructions
1.Grind all ingredients from table-2 (onion, green chilli and ginger) to a fine paste.
2. Blanch the tomatoes and run them on a blender to make a puree.
3. Heat butter in a pan, fry the paneer cubes until they turn golden on the sides. Caution… they tend to burn off soon, carefully toss them on medium flame, remove and soak in warm water.
4. Heat oil in the same pan and season with cumin seeds. Add the ground onion paste with ginger and kasturi methi; fry until it turns light brown. (takes about 15 minutes on meduim flame)
5. Once the raw onion smell goes away, add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, corainder powder and garam masala. Fry till the oil separates.
6. Now add pureed tomato, cover an cook the gravy for 5 minutes.
7. Add the whey, green peas, fried panner pieces, sugar and salt. Cover and cook for another 5 minutes and switch off.
8. Serve with warm roti or naan.
Notes
Whey – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey
You can also use the clear liquid separated from curd/yogurt.
14 Comments
Hello 🙂
Just my 2 cents.. I noticed a few people mention that their dish had turned out bitter. Ive learnt that if kasturi methi is cooked for too long it can impart bitterness to the dish. This is why I add kasturi methi and garam masala at the end. This dish came out well and I did just that.
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i tried this receipe and it turned to be a flop. it tasted bitter :(:(:( dnt know wat went wrong..
Mullai u r simply superb. ur family members are really lucky. good job.. keep going..
Hi Mullai,
I tried out the Matar Paneer recipe today with 5 spoons of coconut milk.It came out really good. Thanks a ton.
Hi Mullai..
Had prepared this dish yesterday.Turned out to be excellent.I have an habit of adding double cream for few of my gravies…That gives a very good taste and a creamy appearance..We all enjoyed this dish..Keep up ur good work..
Cheers
Radha Arvindh
Dear Radha,
Thank you so much for your appreciation. Here we get something called heavy cream, which does not need any explanation, very rich and pampered with fat. Moreover its expensive, a small carton cost $2 and we need only a few spoons of those for our preparation and the rest sleeps in the refridgerator. But great for large batches… like when you prepare for parties or get togethers, it attracts people to dig in and the dish vanishes in minutes. Anyway, thanks for the tip.
Hi Mullai..
Here we get different varieties of creams like Single cream ,long life double cream etc and r quiet reasonable.. like 50p ..1pound(500gms) since I buy the long lasting double cream I use them in few of my gravies and stays good for 3-4months after opening too.So I tend to experiment ,by adding them in different gravies.
Btw planning to give Mysore pak a try this week end.Since u said u need an extra hand ..I thought of doing it on a week end..(My hubby would be at home heehheeee)
Cheers
Radha Arvindh
hi Mullai,
I tried your Matar-Paneer reciepe, but it tastes bitter. I used 1 white onion and just 1 tomato..can u please tell me why did it turn bitter? is it bcoz of the wrong combination of tomatoes & onions?
Thanks,
Kamini
Kamini, actually you have to use more tomatoes for this dish, but I still wonder what could have went wrong, bcos you have used only 1 tomato. You have choose ripe red tomatoes, try canned whole tomatoes or use a pinch of sugar.
Thanks for ur quick reply.. I did add sugar. Next time I will try with Canned tomatoes. I am a regular visitor of ur website & like the way u present the reciepes.
Thanks,Kamini
Mullai, Thanks for the wonderful website.I've become a good cook now,after trying out your recipies.
Your husband is really lucky! 😉
Hi Mullai,
I tried out this receipe today and also i add 5 tsps of coconut milk. It came out really well.
Thank you so much for your devotion you are showing to us.
Manjula, coconut milk sounds good, will definitely include the next time when I make this dish. Thanks for the tip.
Hi Mullai..
I tried out the Matar Paneer II recipe posted by u on 27th.It came out
well but I added a little bit of coconut milk..It tasted very
good…Normally when we add fresh cream or coconut milk the gravy becomes
a bit richer and tastes more or less similar to that what we get in
restaurants..It was just an experiment..Anyway the outcome was very good..
Cheers