• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Recipe Index
    • Instant pot Recipes
    • Main course recipes
      • Beverages
      • Best Fall recipes
      • Easy impressive meals for company
      • Best desserts for all seasons
      • Baked goods
      • Indian desserts for all occasions
      • Finger food recipes
      • Salad Recipes
      • Seafood Recipes
      • Pasta Recipes
      • Rice Recipes
      • Breads
      • Vegetable Curry Recipes
      • Dry side dish recipes
      • Dips and pickles
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Traditional Kerala recipes
      • Kerala sadhya recipes
  • Contact
  • About
    • Around the World
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
elephants and the coconut trees
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Recipe Index
    • Instant pot Recipes
    • Main course recipes
      • Beverages
      • Best Fall recipes
      • Easy impressive meals for company
      • Best desserts for all seasons
      • Baked goods
      • Indian desserts for all occasions
      • Finger food recipes
      • Salad Recipes
      • Seafood Recipes
      • Pasta Recipes
      • Rice Recipes
      • Breads
      • Vegetable Curry Recipes
      • Dry side dish recipes
      • Dips and pickles
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Traditional Kerala recipes
      • Kerala sadhya recipes
  • Contact
  • About
    • Around the World
×

Home » complete meal

Methi Matar Malai

Last Updated on May 29, 2022

Share
Pin3
Tweet
Share

Methi matar malai is a mild rich flavored creamy green curry made with fresh fragrant fenugreek leaves, green peas, cashew nut and cream.

Methi matar malai is my favorite mild n rich curry made with fenugreek leaves and the creaminess from cashew nut and cream. I grow my own fenugreek leaves these days they are soooo tender and good unlike the woody mature ones available in the Indian stores. Needless to say nothing goes on it other than water and veg compost. May be one day I would be so self sustained that I could just step out into garden and come back with everything to be cooked for the day like our forefathers did.

Methi matar malai

     When you are in the mood to treat yourself  this is the ideal way to go. A mild  n flavorful curry with soft buttery naan some delicious pilaf and wash it down with fragrant  Rose lassi. The potato fried is spiced just so everything doesn't turn too bland for the masala beaten tongue of ours.

 
 
Homemade butter naan, Spicy Potato Fried, Methi matar Malai, Vegetable Pulao (Rice) , Cucumber sliced and  Rose Lassi.
Homemade butter naan, Spicy Potato Fried, Methi matar Malai, Vegetable Pulao (Rice) , Cucumber sliced and  Rose Lassi.
 
 Methi matar Malai recipe steps

Methi mattar malai recipe :

Ingredients:
Methi leaves / Fenugreek leaves - 2 cups
Green peas / Mutter - 1 cup
Whole milk - 1/2 to 3/4 cup
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1-2 tsp
Cooking oil -2 tsp
Salt to taste

To grind to paste:
Red onion -1 (large)
Cashew nut - 1 tbsp broken
Green chili - 1
Garlic - 5 flakes
Ginger - 1 inch piece

To coarsely powder:
Cinnamon - 1 inch piece
Cloves - 4
Cardamom - 3
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

To season:
Cream  - 1 tbsp or more
Kasuri methi - 1 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp
Method:

 
  1. I used the fenugreek leaves I grew on my patio from seed for 15 days. The stalk is very tender so I discarded only the root part.
  2. Wash the fenugreek well.Chop and then blanch it by putting it in 1/2 cup boiling water for few minutes when it wilts and becomes very soft  drain the liquid and put it into cold water to stop the cooking.(I used the water as it is very nutritious but beware it will be bitter) 
  3. Heat the ghee and oil together in a pan and add the ground onion mixture saute until the raw smell goes off and the paste dries up and leaves the sides. Make sure to do this carefully so that the masala does not brown.
  4. Add coriander powder, spice powdered and saute until a nice aroma comes. Now add the milk, sugar, salt and green peas and simmer on low flame until the peas is cooked.Finally add the fenugrek leaves and simmer for a few more minutes.
  5. Add cream let it just heat up well. Before removing from flame add the kasuri methi crushed between ur palms.
  6. After pouring the curry into the serving bowl drizzle cream on top of it.

Serve methi malai matar with roti,naan paratha etc
The butter naan u see in the pictures is made on tawa no tandoor no yeast how nice right!!

 

 
 
 

Other mild leafy green curries to try are :

  • Spinach tofu curry
  • Indian cottage cheese in spinach curry
  • Spinach with lentil curry

Hope you like it.

Meena

Share
Pin3
Tweet
Share

More complete meal

  • Quinoa Salad ( Zero oil recipe)
  • Vegan Salad
  • Pavakka pulincurry / Kaipakka pulincurry without coconut
  • Rice and Beans Casserole

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

FREE Recipes

To keep u - updated and me - motivated :)

Click HERE to Subscribe!

WELCOME

Hey ! this is Meena. Welcome to my space.

My blog has become my medium of expression and a way of keeping me happy.

I started off as novice in cooking and over the years my husband has put up with all my disasters in such a gracious and enduring manner, I owe him a lot for that...

Read More

Popular Recipes

vegan vegetable stew

Vegan Vegetable Stew

salmon with shallots

Salmon with shallots | Easy stovetop recipe (Video recipe)

Carrot halwa in instant pot 2

Carrot Halwa in Instant pot

Coconut crusted cod fish 1

Coconut Crusted Cod Fish

Umm Ali / Om Ali / Egyptian Dessert / Middle Eastern Cuisine

beetroot wine

Beetroot Wine / Homemade Red wine recipe / Step-by-step recipe for wine making / Easy wine recipe

Footer

↑ back to top

Useful Links

  • Privacy Policy & Disclosure
  • Contact
  • About

Newsletter

Join my mailing list to receive the latest recipes FREE to your inbox!     SUBSCRIBE

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2022 Elephants and the Coconut Trees