Restaurant Style Matar Paneer

The grass is always greener on the other side!

This is what I understand after ordering a plate of Matar Paneer from a nearby restaurant in Kolkata! There was a time when I used to miss the typical Kolkatan food in Gurgaon and mostly ended on preparing bong delicacies at home to fill the gap between availability and not-availability and wrongly available. Now that I am in Kolkata, I have started missing typical North Indian food! Coming to the quality and taste of Matar Paneer I ordered; it was nothing but disaster and I was badly missing typical North Indian spicy Restaurant Style Matar Paneer...

Now here I am with my Restaurant style Matar Paneer that I made last week to indulge the taste bud with the typical aroma of North Indian spicy, colorful Restaurant wala Matar Paneer. Matar Paneer which is a famous Tomato gravy based Peas and Cottage Cheese curry from the Northern part of the country and requires no further introduction. This dish is one of the heroes of the North Indian Menu from small Dhabas to exquisite five stars!

Before making it, I was exploring the web world to check the variations of Matar Paneer and found around 5-6 types of different recipes. Though the basic ingredients are same but process-wise those recipes are quite a bit different from each other and then I relied on my memory and taste bud and made it. You may found my recipe, not the authentic one but I just tried to recreate the typical restaurant like look and taste of the dish and believe me, my attempt of preparing Restaurant Style Matar Paneer was successful!

Serving Suggestion:

Matar Paneer can be served with Plain Rice/ Roti/ Paratha, Nan/ Peas Pulao/ Ghee Bhat etc.