Nemona or Matar Kheema:

Nemona or Matar Kheema:

One of my mother’s winter specialties Nemona is a typical North Indian dish made mostly in the season of Matar which is winter.

Ingredients:

250gm matar (frozen or fresh)

2 medium sized onion

1 small tomato(oiled and pureed)

1 medium sized Potato

Green Chilli 2

2 tea spoon ginger garlic paste (best if fresh grounded)

1 tea spoon Dhaniya Powder

½ tea spoon of Chilli powder and turmeric.

Salt to taste

Best made in Ghee

Method :

Boil the peas for over 5 min and grind it with green chilies into a thick coarse paste. Then fry it in a pan with 1 tablespoon of Ghee. This part will take some time…but for best results let it turn a little golden brown. Then remove it from flame.

Grind onion ginger and garlic together. To start with put 1 tablespoon of ghee in a pan and add a bay leaf and jeera into it. Once it starts spluttering add the grinded mixture of onion ginger and garlic. Keep frying the mixture till it turns golden brown. Then add the tomato puree and mix it well for two mins. Then add the chilli ,turmeric and dhaniya powder. Sauté it for another 5 minutes. Then add the grinded matar, boiled and chopped potato and salt to taste. Add some water and let it cook for another 5 mins. A pinch of garam masala and freshly chopped coriander leaves will enhance the taste.