• Add the oil to flour and salt. Mix it until you can combine the dough
• Add water to the mix.Knead into a stiff dough.
• Make a bigger chapati from the dough and roll it around a steel bowl of your choice.
• Once the bowl is enclosed in the dough it will look as below. Spread some oil using a brush or oil spray.
• Preheat air fryer at 170 deg C for 5 mins and air fry the katori for 14-15 minutes at 170 deg C.
• Once they are cool, remove the shells from the katori.These can be stored in an air tight box for few days. If they are not crisp on the day you want to use them, reheat them for 1-2 minute in the air fryer.

For dal

• Soak the lentils in water for 2-3 hours.
• Cook them in a pot or pressure cooker with salt and turmeric powder.
• Put a portion of lentil in the serving bowl, garnish with red chilli powder
• Heat oil, add 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, let it splutter , Add the hot oil tempering to lentils. Garnish with finely chopped coriander, onions,  sweet chutney and optionally garam masala powder.

Serving instructions

• Heat oil in a deep pan.Add cumin seeds and let it crackle. Add this to the cooked dal.Garnish with chilly powder and amchur/dried mango powder.Serve the dal in pakwan katori with chopped onions, green chutney and tamarind or date chutney.