Matar Paneer Pulao recipe + Video

Matar Paneer Pulao- a delicious and easy to make fresh pea and cottage cheese rice

Matar paneer is a very classic combination and many delicious curries , snacks and rice preparations are made with this combination. I love making different variety of rice for lunch and to pack in lunch boxes. These type of rice preparations needs just some yogurt and salad to make a comforting meal.

Making this pulao is very easy and quick. You don’t need many ingredients so no need to chop the veggies. Do try to use good quality fresh paneer and fresh or good frozen peas for making this pulao. Some times frozen peas do have some strange smell so I always either blanch them in boiling water or wash with hot water.

Addition of nuts is optional abut make it nice and rich. Serve this matar paneer pulao with tadke wala boondi raita and some fresh salad of your choice.

You can also try these recipes-

• Chutney Pulao
• Gujarati Khichdi
• Besan Vegetable Pudla
• Kashmiri Dahi Baigan
• Sindhi Tomato kadhi
• Paneer ki Kheer
• Sooji corn balls

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5 from 2 votes

Matar Paneer Pulao

Delicious rice made with cottage cheese and green peas

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time10 mins

Course: lunch recipe, Main Course, Tiffin recipes

Cuisine: North Indian Cuisine, Punjabi Cuisine

Keyword: matar paneer pulao, matar pulao, paneer pulao, pulao recipe

Servings: 3

Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

• 2 cup Rice/chawal
• 2 Green chilies /Hari Mirch
• 250 gms Cottage cheese / Paneer
• 2 cup Green Peas / Hari Matar
• 1.5 tbsp Ginger / Adrak sliced
• 1 tbsp Chili flakes /Kuti hui laal mirch
• 1 tomato chopped
• to taste Salt / Namak

tempering

• 5 tbsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee to shallow fry
• 2 Black Cardamom / Badi Elaichi
• 5 Green Cardamom / Hari Elaichi
• 5 Cloves / Lavang
• 1/2 inch Cinnamon /daalchini
• 12 Whole pepper corn/ Sabut Kali Mirch
• 2 Bayleaves/ Tejpatta
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera

Instructions

• Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes.
• Heat 5 tbsp ghee in a pan and shallow fry paneer cubes to a light golden colour
• Now add cumin seeds and all the whole spices in the ghee and let them splutter.
• Drain water from the soaked rice and then add in the pan.
• Saute rice for few minutes till it get cooked with ghee and get a nice glaze .
• Add slit green chilies and chopped ginger, salt ,chili flakes and stir to mix.
• Add the green peas, stir fried paneer and chopped tomato and 3.5 cups of water.
• When the water start boiling , cover the pan with a lid.
• Cook on low heat till done.stir in between 2-3 times so it will not stick to the bottom.
• Fluff the rice with a fork and serve hot with raita and salad.