Recipe: Perfect Paneer Matar Butter Masala

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Paneer Matar Butter Masala. Matar paneer is a restaurant style creamy, delicious and rich peas paneer curry. Matar paneer is one of India's most popular paneer dishes. In most Indian homes, it is made during winters when fresh peas are in season.

Paneer Matar Butter Masala Method For mutter paneer butter masala. This paneer masala curry is having low fat content than Paneer Butter masala as we are skipping butter. I love serving this Indian curry with Jeera rice and Garlic Naan. You can have Paneer Matar Butter Masala using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Paneer Matar Butter Masala

  1. You need 1/2 cups of Paneer cubed.
  2. It's As required of Oil.
  3. It's 1/2 cup of Green peas.
  4. Prepare to taste of Salt.
  5. You need 1 teaspoon of Sugar.
  6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of Red Chilli powder.
  7. It's 1/4 cup of Milk.
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon of Kasuri Methi.
  9. It's For of the masala/gravy:.
  10. You need 1 of Onion, finely chopped.
  11. It's 2 of Tomatoes, finely chopped.
  12. Prepare 1 inch of Ginger, finely chopped.
  13. You need 1 clove of Garlic, finely chopped.
  14. You need 2 tablespoons of Ghee.
  15. It's 2 of Dry Red Chillies.
  16. Prepare 1/2 inch of Cinnamon.
  17. It's 2 of cloves.
  18. You need 4 of Whole Black Peppercorns.
  19. Prepare 3 of Cardamom.
  20. It's 1/2 teaspoon of Coriander Seeds.
  21. Prepare 1/4 cup of Cashewnuts.

And Yes, this recipe for Indian Cottage Cheese Curry with green peas doesn't call for any Onions too. This recipe is an easy, quick and delicious method to make paneer butter masala. Within minutes you can prepare this Restaurant style paneer butter masala at home. Called by various names such as butter paneer or butter paneer masala or paneer makhani this dish is of the most popular Indian paneer dish along with Palak paneer, Malai kofta, Paneer tikka masala and Matar paneer. obviously being.

Paneer Matar Butter Masala step by step

  1. Heat butter in a pan, add onions..
  2. Sauté until onions uptill the onions turn transparent. Add ginger and garlic and stir for 1 to 2 minutes..
  3. Add whole dry red chilies, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, whole black peppercorns and coriander seeds stir a few times. Add tomatoes and cook until tomatoes turn soft. Remove from heat and keep aside to cool a little..
  4. Puree this entire mixture along with 1/4 cup of cashews until smooth, adding a little water if required..
  5. Transfer this gravy to the wide pan and place on heat. Add paneer pieces and peas to the gravy. add salt to taste, sugar, kasuri methi, chilli powder (if using), water if required and cook on low heat..
  6. Finally add milk, mix well again cook 5 minutes. Serve Paneer Matar Butter Masala.

Matar paneer has paneer and matar/ green peas as main ingredients. I tried this recipe after I tasted this at my friend Sangeeta's place. Loved it very much and asked her the recipe for it. Prepare this when ever I get bored of the paneer butter masala. This is sure a nice variation from the usual cashew gravy.