Recipe: Eating on a Dime Qeema Matar

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Qeema Matar. Keema Matar Recipe - About Keema Matar Recipe: Keema matar is a delicious dinner party dish that you can easily prepare at home with simple ingredients and in no more than an hour. Pair this with rice or roti for a wholesome meal. Ingredients of Keema Matar Recipe: A delicious blend of minced meat and peas sauteed in a thick mixture of stimulating flavors like cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon.

Where does keema matar come from?

Keema/Kima, as we call it in Bengali, is a staple curry in many Bangladeshi and Pakistani households.

This particular version, Classic Keema Matar (mince with peas) is one of two favourites in my own house, the other being Aloo Keema (mince with potatoes).

You can have Qeema Matar using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Qeema Matar

1. Prepare 1/2 kg of Beef mince (Qeema).

2. You need 1/2 Cup of Frozen Peas.

3. It’s 1 tbsp of Ginger Garlic paste.

4. It’s 1 of Onion medium size (sliced).

5. You need 1/2 Cup of Tomatoes paste.

6. You need 1/2 tsp of Red chilli flakes.

7. You need 1/2 tsp of Red chilli powder.

8. You need 1/2 tbsp of coriander powder.

9. It’s 1/2 tbsp of cumin seeds powder.

10. It’s 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.

11. It’s 2 tsp of salt.

12. Prepare 1 tsp of All spice's powder.

13. It’s 2 tbsp of coriander leave.

14. You need 2 of Greeen Chili 🌶️ Sliced.

15. You need 1/2 Cup of Oil.

16. It’s 1 Glass of water.

Both curries can be made following this recipe, simply replace the peas with potatoes.

This Pakistani and Indian-style Keema Matar (Ground Beef and Peas Curry) is an easy, one-pot keema recipe that's deeply flavorful with no whole spices used.

This recipe also includes tips on how to make Keema curry with ground chicken.

Growing up, we ate keema almost weekly, with Keema Aloo (Ground beef with potatoes) gracing the table a bit more frequently.

Qeema Matar step by step

1. In a pan add Oil, onions, ginger garlic paste. Fry till lightly golden.Add qeema and Cook till it changes colour and water entirely drys (high flame)..

2. Once water drys and oil oozes out, add tomatoes paste and Add crushed chilli, red chilli powder, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, salt,garam masala, coriander powder.

3. Mix it well and do taste if chilli OR salt is needed more (high flame) cook till tomatoes water are reduced and masala is made.Add peas mix it well..

4. Add 1 Glass of water and cook on low to medium heat and let the water dry till mince and Peas are cooked..

5. Once water drys add fresh coriander, green chillies..

6. Qeema matar is ready serve with garam garam chapati / naan 😋.

Keema means mince of any meat usually (beef, mutton, lamb, or chicken).

It is also spelled as qeema, kheema by some.

So when cook mince and peas in Indian style tomato and onion gravy, it is called keema matar.

Keema Matar, or simply Keema, is a semi-dry Indian curry, made with ground meat (Keema) and green peas (matar or mutter), seasoned with Indian spices.

For more recipes related to Keema Matar checkout Hyderabadi Keema, Keema Bharta, Sicillian Meat Balls, Lagan Ka Keema.