Sinamon Tales

by Monika

Methi Mattar Pasanda

 Methi Mattar Pasanda is a delightful dish made from fresh methi and green peas in a white gravy of milk and curd. Delicious with some hot rotis or rice!

So a conversation (read argument) between N and I resulted in this delicious methi mattar pasanda.

Methi Mattar Pasanda

 

Me : I don’t feel like cooking today.

N : And I don’t feel like going out.

Me : Ok then lets order in.

N : Naah mood nahin hai plus what will it do to your diet?

Me : sigh but I don’t want to cook. Why do you have to say no, every time I ask to go out? Picks up Ohasand walks away in part anger, part style to the first floor.

Scene II

About an hour or so later totally convinced that I have been royally ignored and this man won’t come up to say ok lets go out and eat, I come down to make some dish which is quick to eat. And what do I see?

All my cooking books half open, half closed, thrown away on my carpet in the middle of the living room and a very very very messy looking kitchen. But the dining table set in a lovely manner with nothing less than methi mattter pasanda and egg bhurji! 

And I didn’t have anything to say after that, apart from enjoying the meal and yes, the 2-hour cleaning after that 😉 God bless the man for serving a good meal and God, please send me someone to clean the mess after that 😉

Well, to be honest, the cleaning didn’t really matter, because the food was made with so much love that the cleaning really didn’t matter. I did crib a bit about it, but hey, the food was so delicious! I shouldn’t even be complaining.

So, here is the recipe! Ab bolo, post karna banta hai na 😉

Methi Matter Pasanda

 Methi Mattar Pasanda is a delightful dish made from fresh methi and green peas in a white gravy of milk and curd. Delicious with some hot rotis or rice!
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Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup green peas boiled
  • 1 cup methi leaves, finely chopped
  • 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1/2 tsp kasuri methi
  • 1/4 cup milk low fat (we used Good Life Slim Milk)
  • 1/4 cup curds low fat (use probiotic if you are buying from outside)
  • 1/2 tsp Bengal gram flour (besan)
  • 1/4 tsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp oil
  • to taste salt

for the paste

  • 1 and 1/4 cups onions sliced
  • 1/4 cup cauliflower finely chopped
  • 1 - 2 green chillies (I think N used 4 here 🙂 )
  • 1 clove garlic chopped (I don't enjoy eating too much, so N skipped it)
  • 1/2 inch ginger piece sliced
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 Clove
  • 1 cup milk low fat

Instructions
 

  • For the paste:
  • Combine all the ingredients in a pan and simmer for 8-10 minutes till the onions are soft and nearly all the liquid has evaporated.
  • Puree the mixture to a smooth paste in a blender. Keep aside.
  • For the gravy
  • Combine the milk, curds and gram flour. Mix well and keep aside.
  • Sprinkle salt over the methi leaves and leave aside for 10 minutes. Wash the leaves well. Squeeze out all the water.
  • Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and add the cumin seeds.
  • When the seeds crackle, add the methi leaves and kasuri methi and saute for 3-4 minutes.
  • Add the prepared paste, curd-gram flour mixture, garam masala and salt with 1/2 cup of water and bring the mixture to a boil.
  • Add the green peas and simmer for 1-2 minutes.
  • Serve hot with chapathis.

Notes

Recipe Source : Tarla Dalal's Cooking with 1 teaspoon of Oil
 
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Comments

  2. Indian Homemaker says

    What a sweet, awesome wonderful thing to do 🙂 I am sure it must have been your fav meal for a long, long time…
    I love low cal recipes, I am so going to try this!!!

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  3. Mohan says

    Wah… i really need to appreciate your commitment towards the food habits. Great going Monika… Glad you shared the recipe as well 🙂

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  10. Swaram says

    Plsss dont call it off Mons .. go ahead and post 2 🙂 We r all here to read .. u hv been dng so well .. y this early retirement plan 😛

    N the post, bilkul banta hai ji .. hai hai 😉 God bless u both 🙂

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  11. monikamanchanda says

    yeah me too i am digger for low cal and healthy recipes and keep inventing and looking for them all the time
    let me know if u liked it IHM

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  14. Smita says

    hehehe so sweet of him!!! Sat even my hubby made the breakfast & paratha’s for my dabba!!! Though he can cook pretty decently the only reason that I I don’t let him cook quite often is because of the mess that he leaves 😀

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  25. umsreflections says

    It was absolutely sweet of ur hubby to cook such a delicious dish, for YOU !!!! 🙂

    Were you floting somewhere in Cloud 9, all thru the day, after lunch ???? 😉

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  30. mandira says

    your sabzi looks infinitely better than wat they pass off as methi-matar pasanda at the canteen.. no wonder i stopped eating there! 🙂

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  36. monikamanchanda says

    LOL mandy office canteens most horrible places 😉

    and why i am not rcvng any comments from u on the baking posts 🙁

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  38. mommy says

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    ohh and it get rid of the migraine in less than 20 minutes.. I usually take the pill & drink tea and by the time I am done with my tea there is no more migraine.. I hope someone from here is coming your way and you can try this medicine. its very inexpensive.

    and I looooove ur blog even though I don’t get to read it frequently(as u can see that I am reading ur jan post now;-) but it is so refreshing.. keep it up..

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