Instant Aloo Matar Recipe Without Pressure Cooker
Instant Aloo Matar Recipe Without Pressure Cooker is a quick, comforting Indian curry made effortlessly with frozen peas and boiled potatoes.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 onion
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 green chilies
- small piece of ginger
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp water (for making tomato onion puree)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Spicy red chilli powder
- 1 tsp Kashmiri red chili powder (for good colour)
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 4 potatoes (Boiled, peeled & cut into dices)
- 1.5 cup green peas (frozen)
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp dry fenugreek leaves/kasuri methi (optional)
- 1 cup boiling hot water for gravy (adjust according to consistency)
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves/cilantro for garnish
Instructions
- First of all add onion, tomatoes, green chilies, ginger, garlic and just 1-2 tbsp of water in a grinder jar.
- Grind to a fine puree.
- Heat oil in a pan. As we have used mustard oil so it needs to be smoked first. You can add any oil you use in your daily cooking.
- Add the onion tomato paste, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, spicy red chilli powder, kashmiri red chili powder, coriander powder, salt and mix.
- Put a lid and let the ingredients cook on low heat. Keep stirring at intervals.
- When the bubbles are seen, puree turns dry and begins to leave the sides of the pan, add frozen peas and boiled potatoes. Mix well.
- Add boiling hot water nad mix it well.
- Mash few of the potatoes and peas so that gravy tuns slightly thick.
- Lastly add garam masala, Kasuri methi & coriander leaves. Mix.
- Green peas and potato curry/Aloo matar ki sabji is ready.
- Enjoy.