Methi Mattar Malai
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Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3persons
 
Ingredients
  • For the paste
  • Oil: 2 Tsps
  • Cloves: 2
  • Peppercorns: 2
  • Green Cardamon: 1
  • 1 Small piece of Cinnamon
  • Onion: 3 medium sized, finely chopped
  • Green Chilly: 1 (or as per taste), finely chopped
  • Ginger-garlic paste: 1 tsp
  • Cashews: 8, soaked in water.
  • For the gravy
  • 2 Tsps Oil
  • Cumin seeds/Jeera: ¼th Tsp
  • Salt, to taste
  • Garam Masala: ¼th Tsp
  • Methi Leaves: 1 Teacup Cup, washed drained and finely chopped
  • Peas: ¾ th Teacup cup, washed and boiled
  • Milk: 4 Tsps
Instructions
  1. For the paste:
  2. Heat the oil in a kadhai
  3. Add the cloves, peppercorn, cardamom and cinnamon to it and stir for a minute.
  4. Add the Onions and chillies to it and stir till onions start turning transparent
  5. Add the ginger garlic paste and stir for another minute
  6. *Note: The onions should NOT turn brown*
  7. Set aside to cool
  8. When cool, add the soaked cashews to it, very little water and grind to a thick and smooth paste.
  9. For the gravy:
  10. Heat the oil in a kadhai
  11. Add the cumin seeds and stir until they splutter
  12. Add the paste to this and, on a low flame, keep stirring till the paste leaves the sides of the pan.
  13. Add the garam masala and salt to it. Mix well
  14. Add the chopped methi to it and cook for 5-6 minutes
  15. Add the peas to it and cook for another 2-3 minutes
  16. Mix the milk in about ¾th cup of water and add to this. Depending on the consistency required you could add more.
  17. Keep stirring and cook till it starts bubbling.
  18. Switch off the flame.
  19. Serve hot with parathas.
Recipe by Sirimiri at https://sirimiri.in/2014/11/17/methi-mattar-malai/