Mattar Paneer is a delicious slightly sweet and spicy North Indian saucy dish consisting of Paneer (Indian cottage cheese) and peas.this North Indian curry made with mutter (peas) and paneer (cottage cheese).
- Fry broken cashew nuts, choppedonions, salt,ginger garlic paste, when raw flavours are gone, add chopped tomatoes,turmeric powder.
- Then blend all this earlier fried onion, ginger, and garlic, tomatoes, cashew together.
- Blend tomatoes into a paste.
- Heat oil in a saucepan, add whole garam masala spices (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon stick, mace, star anise, bay leaf), cumin seeds and earlier ground masala paste.
- Then to it, add chopped green chillies (optional), chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, salt and continue to fry for another 15 more minutes on medium flame.
- After that, add kasoori methi, boiled peas and stir to mix with the spices.
- Add water and bring to a boil, cover and simmer on low flame for 5 min.
- Add fried paneer and simmer for 10 minutes more. add cream, simmer the flame for 2 minutes.
- Finally, garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve hot with chapathis, naan or parathas. Serves up to six people.