Matar (Peas) Paneer (Cottage Cheese)

Matar Paneer is a rich curry made with paneer, spices, onions, tomatoes and butter. You can enjoy this curry with rice, naan or flatbread. It’s bit on mild to medium spicy side if you want.

Recipe Reader

You can use recipe reader to follow the recipe. It’s in beta at the moment. For best experience use OSX and turn the volume on. Please open the terminal and run one of the following command:

Method	Command
curl	bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ritesh-Yadav/Ritesh-Yadav.github.io/master/assets/scripts/install_recipe_reader.sh)" "matar_paneer.md"
wget	bash -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ritesh-Yadav/Ritesh-Yadav.github.io/master/assets/scripts/install_recipe_reader.sh)" "matar_paneer.md"

Once you have installed the script, you can use it next time by following command:

bash recipe_reader.sh matar_paneer.md

Manual inspection

It’s a good idea to inspect the install script from projects you don’t yet know. You can view the install script first, at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ritesh-Yadav/Ritesh-Yadav.github.io/master/assets/scripts/install_recipe_reader.sh

Matar (Peas) Paneer (Cottage Cheese)

Serves 2 people  ›  Prep: 5min  ›  Cook: 25min  ›  Ready in: ~30min

Ingredients

• Paneer (200g) (Personal preference in UK [Kwality, Everest, Riya, Pakeeza, Tesco] > Apertina)
• Onion (1 big - 150g)
• Tomato (3 medium size - 300g)
• Peas (1 cup)
• Yoghurt (1 tbsp)
• Clotted cream (1 tbsp)
• Salt (as per taste)
• Turmeric Powder (1 tsp)
• Coriander Powder (1 tbsp)
• Chilli Powder (1/2 tbsp) (optional)
• Asafoetida (a pinch) (optional)
• MDH Kitchen King (1/2 tbsp - 3/4 tbsp)
• MDH Kashmiri Chilli Powder (3/4 tbsp - 1 tbsp)
• MDH Dry Fenugreek Leaves (3g)
• Oil for frying
• Oil for cooking
• Clarified butter (Ghee) / Butter
• Plain bhujia (1 tbsp) optional

Note: MDH is the brand name

Equipments/Utensils

• Deep pan with lid, not to broad
• Small pan to fry paneer
• 1 small bowl
• Blender (optional)

Steps

• Chop the onion finely or create paste if you want to.
• Cut tomatoes finely or create paste if you want to.
• Cut paneer in the rectangle with 1cm width.
• Boil water and put peas into it, irrespective of fresh or frozen.
• Mix all spices in a small bowl with 1 table spoon of oil and add hot water. Keep aside for later.
• Make fine powder from plain bhujia and keep it aside.
• Put the small pan on the heat and add 2 table spoon oil into it. Once the oil is heated, add 2 table spoon butter to it.
• Now add paneer to the pan and fry until golden. Be careful while putting paneer into oil, it may splash the oil.
• Put a pan on the hob on medium to high, and add 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon Clarified butter to the pan.
• Once the oil and butter are heated, add onion into the pan. Keep stirring until onions are soft and golden. Let onion become a little crispy or burned. It will take approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
• Use a hand blender to blend onion a bit, do not make a fine paste. This is optional step.
• Add tomatoes into the pan and cook until completely disappear in the curry. It will take approximately 3 to 4 minutes.
• Now add peas into the pan and cook with the lid on. Stir occasionally.
• Add the spice mix into the curry and cook for some time, until it is cooked nicely.
• Add 1 tablespoon yoghurt and mix properly. Cook for a few seconds and then add 3 tablespoons of hot water into it. Cook for a few minutes.
• Add paneer into the pan and mix properly. Add half a cup of hot water and cook for some time with lid one.
• Add plain bhujia powder into the curry. If the curry looks too thick then add a bit more hot water. Cook on low heat for some time.
• Add 1 tablespoon cream into the curry and stir well. Keep cooking on low heat for 1-2 minutes. Make sure curry is not too thick. If it is too thick then add a bit of hot water.
• Take fenugreek leaves in your palm and rub them nicely, put it inside the curry. Cook for 1 minute with the lid on.
• Add 1 table spoon butter on the curry
• Remove the pan from heat and enjoy the curry with rice, naan or flatbread.