Matar Paneer – Hindi Recipe

Instructions

• Cut the onions into big chunks.
• Wash and cut the tomatoes into big chunks.
• Wash paneer and cut it into small pieces.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add onion, garlic and ginger.
• Mix well and fry on medium heat for about 7-8 minutes until it gets nice golden color or until onion turns nice and soft.
• Add tomatoes and fry on medium heat until it becomes nice and soft for about 5 minutes.
• Turn off the heat and let the onion and tomato cool down.
• Transfer everything into a blender jar and blend into fine paste.
• Heat up butter in a pan.
• When butter melts add the masla paste.
• Mix well and fry the masala on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes.
• Add kitchen king masala, red chili powder and mix well.
• You can use garam masala instead of kitchen king masala.
• Fry on medium heat for about 5-7 minutes until the spices release oil.
• When spices begin to release oil add a little water and salt.
• Mix well and cook on medium heat for about 2 minutes.
• Add paneer and peas. Mix well.
• As we are using frozen peas it doesn’t require much time to cook.
• Cover and cook on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and matar paneer is already.
• You can serve matar paneer with naan, roti or paratha.
• It goes well with jeera rice too.