Muttor Paneer Recipe (Matar Paneer) - No Onion, No Garlic, pure vegetarian recipe with few ingredient but great taste | Matar Diye Chanar Dalna

Paneer is considered one of the most preferred vegetarian foods. It is a milk product so obviously not for vegans. There are many variations of recipes with paneer. But one of the most Googled Paneer (cottage cheese) dishes is Mutter Paneer (cottage cheese prepared with peas. However, in a ‘mutter paneer’ dish, may need the incorporation of onion and garlic paste with tomatoes but the Bengali Mutter Paneer or 'Matar Diye Chanar Dalna' is an authentic vegetarian recipe with no onion or garlic. This recipe I am sharing is very easy and delicious. I prepared this recipe with frozen paneer. Before the actual preparation. I soaked the frozen paneer (cottage cheese) in plain water. I used Amul paneer. Soon the paneer will soften. Then I started my preparation.

Ingredients

·       Amul Paneer - 200 grams

·       Mutter - 1 cup

·       salt as per taste

·       sugar as per taste

·       tomato - 1 chopped

·       fresh cream - 1/2 cup

·       cumin powder - 1-1/2 teaspoon

·       black pepper - 1/4 teaspoon

·       garam masala - 1/4 teaspoon

·       chili powder - 1 teaspoon

·       turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Method

ü  Add oil to a pan and add salt and bay leaves

ü  First fry the paneer cubes lightly. Make sure both sides of the cubes are golden brown.

ü  Boil a pan of hot water and add salt to it. Mix well and add the fried paneer cubes. It will make the paneer really soft and spongy. Don’t boil.

ü  In a bowl take some paneer-soaked water and add chili powder, jeera powder, and turmeric powder as mentioned

ü  Later in the same pan where you fried the paneer add whole cardamom and whole jeera and when in the heat also add the chopped tomatoes and sauté it.

ü   Add the mixture to the oil and stir it vigorously. Soon the oil will start to release then add the boiled peas and mix it well with the masala.

ü  In this stage add the paneer to water in which it was soaked earlier.

ü  Add salt, black pepper, and garam masala powder

ü  After getting the required consistency in broth turn off the heat and incorporate fresh cream. Always add cream after turning on the heat as the cream may curdle and it will make the taste of the dish bit sour.

ü  Garnish the dish with coriander leaves