Matar Paneer | Muttar Paneer | Restuarant style Mattar Paneer

Matar Paneer or Muttar panner as name itself says it is made of matar/muttar and paneer, 2 main ingredients of this dish. Some people call matar as Muttar,mutar,Mattar, All are same. So, this recipe can be known as Matar Paneer or Muttar paneer or Mattar Paneer. Green Peas is English name of matar, and paneer is Indian cottage cheese or cheese prepared from solids extracted from fat.

Matar paneer is traditional North Indian dish prepared with some gravy but is loved all over india and other countries. It can be prepared with onion or without onion, but onion adds thickness and texture to gravy with some sweetness. Today, I am sharing recipe on vegflavours with onion, I will share matar paneer recipe without onion soon.

Having matar paneer dish in restaurant looks different from homemade but this can be prepared at home as well with same taste as in restaurant. Restaurant use some whole spices to enhance the taste of matar paneer that we can use in our dish today so let us start our dish with Ingredients and Method below.

Ingredients

• Paneer 100 gram
• Matar/Green Peas 3/4 cup
• 1 Medium size Onion
• Tomato paste or puree 1/2 cup
• Clove 1
• Black cardamom 1
• Cinnamon 1 inch stick
• Oil 4 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp red chili powder (Prefer Deggi mirch Powder)
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp ginger sliced.
• 1 tbsp fresh cream
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp coriander leaves for garnishing(optional)
• 1 tsp garam masala powder
• Crushed fenugreek leaves /Kasoori methi 1 tsp

Method

• Wash paneer and cut in 1-inch cubes.
• On flat pan heat 2 tbsp of oil and place paneer cubes on it, toss when cook on one side. Shallow fry paneer from all sides (do not overcook) and take it out on absorbent paper to remove all excess oil from it.
• Peel and wash the onion, cut it pieces and blend it in blender to make paste or grate it with grater.
• In a deep pan heat 2 tbsp of oil add clove, cardamom, cinnamon stick and roast it a bit. Add cumin seeds and let it cracker for few seconds, add onion paste and cook it till it change its color and leave oil around onion paste.
• Add coriander powder, chili powder, turmeric powder and cook for few seconds. Add tomato paste or purée and let it cook for 2-3 minutes so tomato paste will cook well, and mixture leave corners, showing it’s cooked properly.
• Mix green peas/matar to it, add 1 cup water and cover pan to cook peas.
• When peas will get cooked in 4-5 minutes (I have used frozen that take 4-5 minutes to get cooked check after 4-5 minutes if peas are cooked well).
• Mix fried paneer in peas curry, add Garam masala and crushed fenugreek leaves to it to enhance flavors.
• Mix well and cover for 2-3 minutes to paneer mix well with gravy flavors.
• Takeout clove, cinnamon stick and whole cardomom from gravy, gravy already incorporated flavor of these.
• Serve hot with roti/bread or rice.