I will be sharing some of my kids favorite gravies with Chapatis, Naans etc. These are the gravies I mostly make for dinner along with Chapatis mostly. Sometimes I change it with Pooris or Naans. However on a typical work day, its mostly chapatis.
My kids typically like North Indian style gravies or South Indian Kormas with coconut. If there is something they don't like much will be our style of making dals. Somehow offlate they have picked up a liking to North Indian Dals as well. Still when it comes to the gravies, they don't want to see any onions or tomatoes floating. Everything should be discarded. This forced me to adapt my recipes to smooth gravies. So my chunky Tomato Kurma got converted to smooth Tomato Kurma.
Likewise even the other gravies got a changeover and everything is now ground and sauteed. I have too many aloo matar masala to count. However I still found this one different in taste and style. The richness in this gravy is from cashews and butter. It tastes great with hot rotis.
Why I call this as Restaurant Style is because I remember eating an aloo matar this rich in a resturant sometime back. It was those rare times that somebody ordered Aloo Matar along with Paneer Butter Masala. I think it was one of my colleagues who doesn't prefer Paneer and we wanted her to have another gravy for the rotis. If you noticed this doesn't have ginger garlic paste and the taste is mild yet quite rich to elevate the senses.
Aloo Matar Masala
Ingredients Needed:
For the ground Masala
Onions - 2 medium
Tomatoes - 2 medium
Green chilies - 3 nos
Cashews - 5 to 7 whole
Oil - 1 tsp
Vegetables:
Potatoes - 3 big
Fresh Peas - 1 cup
Butter - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder a pinch
Salt to taste
Green Chili - 1
For the Gravy
Ground Masala
Fried Vegetables
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Roasted Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Water as required
How to make the Aloo Matar Masala
For the Ground Masala
Wash and chop the onions, tomatoes. In a nonstick pan, heat oil, saute chopped onions, green chilies, tomatoes and cashews till it turns colour.
Allow to cool and then grind to a smooth paste by adding water. Keep it aside.
For the Fried Vegetables:
MW the potatoes for 4 to 5 mins. Soak in water and peel the skin. Blanch the fresh peas for 3 to 4 mins. Drain and keep it aside.
In the same pan, heat butter, add the green chilies, potato, and mater and fry till the aloo changes colour.
For the Gravy:
In the same pan once the vegetables are fried, add the ground masala, required water and bring to boil.
Next add all the spice powders, combine and simmer for 10 mins till oil comes out.
Serve with roti
Recipe
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Other easy Aloo Matar you can make is this no onion no garlic gravy.
vaishali sabnani says
The gravy sounds rich and looks delicious . Even i like to grind the masala and make smooth gravies . I guess that is the North Indian style ☺️
Archana Potdar says
Smooth gravy.. I love them. This is a yummy gravy
Priya Suresh says
Silky gravy..i can have two more rotis with this delicius aloo mattar.
Varadas Kitchen says
Grinding the masala sure gives it a nice texture. Very rich recipe with cashew and butter!
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan says
yummy combo - roti and aloo matar. The cashews does all the tricks naa.. 😉
sushma says
NIce and rich gravy, looks yummy.
Sarita says
Gravy looks super delicious.. Must have tasted awesome .
Ranjana's craft blog says
My son also likes North Indian curries. Every time I make he complain it is not like the restaurant one. Shall try this recipe.
Padmajha PJ says
My lil one too does not like onion and tomato in the gravy, I wonder why!! I am forced to make smooth gravies for his sake! This one sounds so delicious Srivalli.
veena krishnakumar says
Gravy looks rich. Delicious!!
Sowmya :) says
This looks so rich and smooth...love it. Peas is my favorite veggie but tragically we don't get fresh peas here. I am waiting to get back to India and drown in them
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
What a wonderful subzi! I just finished one recipe from your blog and now I am adding on one more to my bookmarks 🙂
Gayathri Kumar says
That is a nice creamy gravy for rotis. Looks delicious..
Pavani N says
Yumm, yumm!! That aloo-matar looks and sounds delicious.
Smruti Shah says
The gravy looks so tempting. Loved the way you made a simple dish so beautiful!
Sapana Behl says
Yummy looking aloo matar gravy.