The market is flooded with fresh green peas, so I am using ample quantity of fresh green peas in many of my dishes. Peas are low in calories and contains no cholesterol They are excellent source of folic acid and also contain adequate amount of anti-oxidants. Peas masala is a very simple and delicious dish that goes well not only with chapati and poori but also with pulao and other flavored rice like ghee rice, jeera pulao etc. Today let us learn how to prepare matar masala following our easy matar/peas masala recipe.
Peas Masala Gravy
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 20 mins
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Green peas – 1 cup (fresh peas)
Onion – 1 cup (chopped)
Tomato -3/4 cup chopped
Ginger -1 inch piece
Garlic – 4 cloves
Green chilli – 1
Salt as required
Oil + Butter – 2 tbsp oil + 1 tbsp butter or oil – 3 tbsp
Spice Powder
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Chilli powder -1 tsp
Coriander powder -2 tsp
Cumin Powder/Jeera powder -3/4 tsp
Kitchen king masala – 1 1/4 tsp (or you can use 1 tsp Garam masala also)
For the seasoning
Oil – 2 tbsp
Cumin/ Jeera seeds – 1 tsp
Preparation
Heat oil + butter (or oil alone), fry onions till it turns golden brown stirring continuously.
Add ginger, garlic and green chilli and saute for a few more minutes.
Add tomatoes and cook till tomatoes turn mushy. Leave it to cool.
Then grind it to a fine paste and keep it ready.
Method
Heat 1-2 tbsp of oil in a pan or pressure pan, add jeera seeds, when it splutters, add the ground paste, all the ingredients mentioned under “spice powder” and saute for a few minutes. (Since we have already cooked everything well, we do not have to cook for a long time now)
Add green peas, 1 cup of water, need salt and pressure cook for 2 whistles. Mix well and garnish with coriander leaves.
Peas masala is ready to be served as a side dish for chapati or pulao.
Note
If dry peas is used to make this gravy, soak the peas overnight and pressure cook adding salt till soft.
You can use frozen peas also. In that case, do not pressure cook, just rinse it well and use it.
For the peas masala to be tasty – You have to fry the onions well and you have to cook the tomatoes till mushy. Do not add water before the tomatoes get cooked well. If it is too dry, you may add 1or 2 tbsp of water. These two steps are very important.
Instead of pressure cooking, you can even cook peas separately till soft and add to the gravy and cook for a few minutes till everything gets incorporated well.
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quick yummy curry..
Lovelyrecipe
Super delicious side dish for rotiss..
awesome recipe…love it
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What a creamy side dish! Lovely!
What lovely looking veg…I can have this for dinner tonight with hot pooris and some tikkis….awesome post!! 🙂
I got one whole lot today.. Love this with rotis.
wow peas masala in winter is yummy curry.
super delicious curry …
looks yummy! i love kitchen king massala!
Perfect way to finish off my last pack of peas – easy and tasty..! I am announcing Valentines Special – my 1st blog event and a Giveaway.!. Please do be a part of it and send in your recipes..! 🙂
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yum! i love love love green peas 🙂 this is such a healthy & tasty dish
this is the fifth recepie of yours that im tryin!! and i hafta say..your blog is a life saver!!great job!
looks very yummy…..
looks great. glad i found this site
the receipe came out yummy…but y the peas taste is sweet,,,
Thanks…BPR
nice
Made this for dinner yesterday to go with chapathi… Super tasty and yummy! Thanks for the recipe Padhu..
thanks for the recipe.. my husband and i loved it..
Tried it… Was yum. Kids loved it :))
I Made this last night… My husband really loved it 🙂 thank u so much!!!
waw. romba nallaa irukku.
Superb recipe. Made it last week and my husband loved it. Thank you. 🙂
Tried it today….Its a big hit…..yummy green peas curry
Hi…. Tried this today & my husband jus loved it and kept saying it was so good!! Thanks a ton!!
Hello mam, I follow ur recipes and it came out well… I wanted to buy kitchen king masala.. But there are several brands when I checked online like mdh, mangal, everest, etc… I would like to use the one u buy.. Pls lemme know the brand of dat masala powder..
Everest is good.
Hi..Tried this out and came out very well..thanks padhu..ur receipies are easy to follow and also taste yummy.
Tried.. it was good more than i expected.. thank u
Thanks for the recipe. indeed the gravy had come out very well and tasted excellent. Myself, my husband and my daughter liked it very much.
Amazing recipe.. I ve jus started to cook n this looked easy so I tried it.. N wow!! Thank u so much for a lovely recipe.
Thank u very much. Must try recipe. Everybody in home liked it.
Tried this today! It was amazing! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this recipe was very good!
The recipe is so good that I always prepare this one for ghee rice and jeera rice. 10/10 😀
Tried it ..came out so well..thank you