Methi Matar Malai
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Fenugreek leaves washed and drained and chopped finely.
  • 1 cup frozen green peas
  • ⅔ rd cup full fat milk
  • ½ cup fresh cream
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • ½ tsp dried fenugreek leaves
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 2 tsp poppy seeds
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • 4-5 cloves of garlic
  • 1 inch piece of ginger root
  • 2 medium sized onion cut in cubes
  • 4 green chilies
  • ⅓ rd cup cashewnuts
  • Cooking Oil
  • Salt
Instructions
  1. Mix some salt in chopped Fenugreek leaves and keep them aside for 10 minutes.
  2. Take onions, green chilies, ginger, garlic, cashewnuts and poppy seeds and grind them all into a fine paste using little water.
  3. Consistency of masala should be fine.
  4. After 10 minutes, squeeze the excess water out from fenugreek leaves. This helps to reduce the bitterness of fenugreek.
  5. Take 1 tbsp oil in a microwave safe bowl. Add fenugreek leaves and cook it in microwave for 1 minute a) Micro mode: 900 Watt b) Set Timer: 2 minutes.
  6. Keep the cooked fenugreek leaves aside. Take another bowl and add 2 tbsp oil to it. Add cumin seeds and roast it in microwave for 1 minute. a) Micro mode: 900 Watt b) Set Timer: 1 minute
  7. After a minute when cumin seeds gets roasted, add white paste and cook it for 2 minutes.a) Micro mode: 900 Watt b) Set Timer: 2 minute.
  8. White Masala gets roasted after 2 minutes. Now add garam masala, dried fenugreek leaves, sugar, green peas, cooked fenugreek leaves , cream, milk and salt.
  9. Mix all the ingredients well and cook them in microwave for 4 minutes as per taste.
  10. a) Micro mode: 900 Watt b) Set Timer: 4 minutes.Pause after 2 minute and give it a nice stir and resume the timer.
  11. Methi Matar Malai is ready to be served
  12. Enjoy this delicious preparation with Laccha Paratha.
Recipe by Kali Mirch - by Smita at https://kalimirchbysmita.com/methi-matar-malai/