Methi Matar Malai

 Description 

Methi Matar Malai is a traditional North Indian curry cooked with fenugreek leaves, peas, and cream. It is on almost every North Indian or Punjabi restaurant's menu. The dish is smooth, creamy, delicious, and healthy due to the fenugreek leaves and green peas. This dish contains no bitterness as it has a sweeter side due to the presence of cream, onions, and cashews.

Recipe 

Ingredients:-

Methi leaves- 250gms

Onion- 3 nos.

Melon seeds- 10gms

Cashew nuts- 10gms

Green peas- 50gms

Salt to taste

Bay Leaf- 1

Butter- 10gms

Cream- 2tsp

Ginger Garlic paste- 1tsp

Milk- 1cup

Green chilies- 3 

Garam Masala- 1tsp 

Sugar- 2tsp

Method:-

1) Finely chop the methi leaves and wash them thoroughly

2) Roughly chop the onions. Take a pan and add oil. Once the oil gets heated up, add the onions and saute it well until it shrinks slightly.

3) Then also add cashew nuts and melon seeds and saute them too for few minutes. Turn off the flame and let the mixture cool down.

4) Once the mixture cools down then blend it into a smooth paste.

5) Take a pan and add oil and let it heat. Once it is heated add the finely chopped methi leaves and saute them well so that the bitterness gets removed. Then add boiled green peas and saute them for few minutes, keep the mixture aside.

6) Now take a kadhai and add butter. Then add bay leaf and saute for few seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste and slits of green chillies and saute it well.

7) Now add the white paste and mix it well. Once the gravy becomes thick, add some milk and sugar and mix it well.

8) Add the sauteed methi leaves and green peas into the white gravy and mix it well.

9) Add salt and garam masala and mix it well, let it simmer for few minutes.

10) Serve it hot.