An all time favorite North Indian dish. The combination of peas, tomatoes and paneer gives this dish a subtle sweetness which enhances the taste of this flavored dish. You could alter the spice level according to your taste. If you don’t much care for the sweetness of the peas, you could add a little more red chilli powder or even add green chilli paste.

So go ahead a experiment to what suits your palate or simple follow the recipe to the Tee, either way, one cant go wrong with this simple quick recipe. Serve it warm with phulka’s to keep the meal light or any bread you desire to savor it with.

Serves: 4 persons

Cooking time: about 20 minutes Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups paneer cubes/ 250 grams ready paneer packet or Home Made Paneer
• ½ cup cooked fresh peas/mutter
• 2 cups pureed tomatoes (choose red ripe tomatoes)
• ½ cup chopped onion
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• ½ teaspoon cumin powder
• ½ teaspoon garam masala powder
• ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
• 2 teaspoon Vegetable/Sunflower oil
• 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
• Salt to taste

Method

Soak the paneer in hot salt water for about 30 minutes. This process makes the paneer soft and tasty.

Heat oil in a frying pan and sauté the onions until they turn mild golden color.

Add the tomato puree, turmeric, cumin powder, salt and red chilli powder. And sauté until tomatoes are cooked and thickened. Add 1/2 cup water to loosen the gravy a little bit, so that it’s not too thick.

Add paneer and mutter to the tomato gravy and simmer for 5 minutes.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with phulkas or any desired bread.

TIP: For the Peas to remain green and to taste sweet add, sugar and salt during the cooking process. The peas has to be completely submerged in water while cooking, this prevents it from popping/breaking into half. See Cooking Vegetables on different ways you can cook peas. This tip applies to organic peas/non frozen/non cooked/non sweet peas.

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