Katori Shots

Katori's Shots

One day, few of my friends decided to have dinner at my place. In any country, dinner is incomplete without starters. So, for starter I decided to have something which can be easily served in minutes. In India, chaat is all time favorite snacks for everyone, so I thought lets make it in a different form. These 'Katori shots' are small eatable cups filled with traditional chaat ingredients, we can eat this in one shot, this reminded me of 'Tequila Shots' so I named it as 'Katori Shots'. It is very easy to prepare and can also be stored for a week.

Preparation time : 10mins
Cooking time : 30mins
Servings : 4

Ingredients:(for 6 Katori shots)

For Katori's (Base):

All purpose flour/Maida	1 cup
Oil	for deep fry
Green Peas paste	3/4cup
Salt	as per taste
Semolina(sooji)	1/2cup

Katori's sample

For Filling's:

Boiled potatoes	1(chopped)
Black chickpeas(kala chana)	1/2cups(soaked and boiled)
Onions	1(chopped)
Curd	1 cup
Red chilly powder	as required
Green chilli paste(green chutney)	1 tbsp
Sweet Tamarind paste(Imli chutney)	1 tbsp
Sev(namkeen)	for garnish
Salt	as required
Coriander leaves	for garnish

Method : How to prepare Katori Shots

1. Mix maida, sooji, green peas pasta, oil and salt to form a stiff dough.
2. Divide the dough into small pieces. Roll each part with the help of rolling pin for about 5 mm thick sheet.
3. Take one very small bowl/cup(deep round utensil) and grease its outer surface with butter.
4. Now, cover the outer surface of the bowl with this sheet, gently giving it the same shape as the bowl(make sure you prick the sheet all over with the fork).
5. In a deep frying pan, heat oil and slide the bowl(which has the maida sheet sticking around it). Once it is fried, the sheet will leave the bowl surface, and will take shape of the bowl. Now, remove the bowl from oil and let these katori's fry till they are golden brown in color.

To make is easy, fry one Katori at a time.

For Filling:

Mix curd, potatoes, black chickpeas, onions, red chilly powder and salt in a bowl.

Fill each katori with this filling.

Top it with green chilli chutney and sweet imli chutney.

Finally, garnish this 'Katori Shots' with sev and coriander leaves.

Give it a try, you will definitely get a unique eating experience, than traditional chaats. Twist it the way you like, make it spicy, sweet or sour according to your taste!