Paneer Mattar Delight(Cottage Cheese Green Peas Curry)

Preparation Time: 20 min

Cooking Time: 15 min

Serves: 8

Ingredients measure:-

For Gravy:

Big Onion :  2 cups cut lengthwise

Ginger garlic Paste : 2 tsp,

Green Chilly : 2 splited lengthwise.

Tomato: 4 diced as cubes.

Branded chicken curry powder: 1 tbsp

Salt: to taste

Paneer cubed pieces : 500 g

Green Peas Frozen : 1 cup

Mustard seeds : 1 tsp

Coriander leaves : 2 tsp

Preparation:-

1)      Grill or fry the paneer cubes in tawa and keep it aside.
2)      Prepare the masala mix, For that pour 1 tsp oil in kadai, big onion, ginger garlic paste, tomato, green chillies and chicken masala powder.
3)      Fry it for 2 mins in medium flame and allow it to cool.
4)      Grind it to a fine paste.
5)      In a earthern pot or kadai, put 2tsp oil and put mustard seeds and curry leaves.
6)      When the curry leaves splutter, sauté well the grinded paste prepared as above.
7)      When the sauted items dry up, mix 2 tsp chicken masala powder and sauté for 2 mins.
8)      Dump in the frozen green peas and fried paneer cubes.
9)      Pour sufficient water into the above  so that pieces are immersed and cook with lid closed.
10)  Saute in between and if needed add some water.
11)  Cook till done.
12)  Garnish with coriander leaves.

Note:- The dish prepared is medium hot, If more sweetness is needed for the dish you can add fresh cream at the end and mix it up.