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Indian Mattar Paneer - Green Peas & Cottage Cheese Curry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Indian Mattar Paneer - Green Peas & Cottage Cheese Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Mutter (meaning peas) paneer (a semi-solid form of cottage cheese) is probably the most frequently ordered vegetarian dish in Indian restaurants. The mild flavors of the paneer (cottage cheese) and peas in it, marry beautifully with the delicious tomato-based sauce of this curry! Mutter paneer is great side dish in a non-vegetarian meal but also the perfect main dish in a vegetarian one.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook indian mattar paneer - green peas & cottage cheese curry using 28 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Indian Mattar Paneer - Green Peas & Cottage Cheese Curry:
- Prepare 200 g Paneer
- Make ready 1 cup Green Peas (Frozen Mix Veggies is also okay)
- Get 150 g Tomatoes (diced or crushed)
- Get 1/2 cup Water
- Get [Curry Paste] - processed in a blender
- Make ready 20-40 g Red or Green Chillies
- Get 20 g Ginger
- Take 20 g Garlic
- Take 20 g Turmeric Root
- Make ready 50 g Red or Yellow Onions
- Take [Mixed Spices] - mix well
- Get 1 tsp Garam Masala
- Prepare 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Cumin Powder
- Take 1/2 Black Pepper Powder
- Prepare 1/2 White Pepper Powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Prepare [Aromatics]
- Make ready 4 pc Cardamom Pods
- Get 2 pc Star Anise
- Take 1 tsp Caraway Seeds
- Make ready [Sauce]
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Prepare 30 g Butter or Ghee
- Make ready 2-4 Tbsp Yogurt
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Honey
- Make ready 2-4 Tbsp Cream
- Make ready as needed Salt
Heat the oil in a saucepan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil. If the cumin seed cracks right away, the oil is ready. Add the asafetida (hing), cumin seeds, bay leaves and cinnamon and stir-fry for a few seconds.
Instructions to make Indian Mattar Paneer - Green Peas & Cottage Cheese Curry:
- ONIONS: heat Cooking Oil and Butter in a pot or wok. Stir fry the Aromatics for 1 minute, and then add the Onions and fry until fragrant, soft and translucent. Then add the Mixed Spices and stir fry for 1 minute.
- CURRY PASTE: next, add the Curry Paste and cook until the the oil separates. Then add the Tomatoes and Water. Mix well and cook until the Tomatoes have soften and disintegrated.
- FINISHING: Next add the Paneer, Peas, Yogurt, Honey and Cream. Season with Salt and mix well. Continue to cook until the Sauce thickens. Serve with rice or Indian flat bread.
Matar is a hindi name for peas and paneer as you know is Indian cottage cheese and when they are cooked together in a creamy and rich curry sauce its called Matar Paneer. There were a few very good and important questions that you had for me about paneer when I posted the homemade recipe for it, so I first want to address those. Indian cottage cheese or Paneer as it is commonly known is a versatile ingredient used in Indian vegetarian cooking. It has a mild flavour which is great as it soaks up all the goodness of spices. Paneer also cooks very quickly which makes it a great choice for a quick paneer tikka or in a curry.
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