Shrimp Cocktail... Beautiful way of presenting a normal looking shrimp starter

What a great way to present shrimps in a cocktail glass!! Fantastic starter to a delicious meal. 

Indian flavoured  chilli shrimps and walnuts topped over lettuce and three layered sauces ( chilli mayonnaise, yellow mango and green coriander mint ).

Here's the quick recipe:

First let's prepare our chilli shrimps. Here's the way.

1) Clean out the shrimps and add some salt and lemon juice to marinate these. Let it rest for 10 minutes. 

2) Meanwhile lets prepare the second marinade.

Take 8-9 dried red chillies and de-seed all of these. Put these in a bowl. Add some boiling water to the bowl. Let it rest for 10-15 minutes until the chillies  become soft.

3) Now transfer these to a hand pounder. Also add 4-5 cloves of garlic. Add 1 tsp whole coriander seeds, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1 tsp shahi jeera and some salt.

Pound it. Add some olive oil ( around 2 tbsp ) and 1 tbsp lemon juice. 

Mix it well. Our marinade is ready. Keep some portion aside for forming sauce. 

4) Transfer the shrimps in the marinade, let all the shrimps be covered well with marinade. Let it rest for 20 minutes.

5) Now add some oil in a heated pan andtransfer the shrimps onto the pan.

Fry these until golden brown on all sides and curled up. It hardly takes 5-10 minutes for the shrimps to cook. But also allow them to dry up. We don't want any moisture in stuffing. Once dried up, transfer the prawns to a bowl.

Now let's prepare our sauces. You can use sauce(s) of your choice.

1) We will use chilli mayo sauce as the sauce.

Just the left over chilli marinade you used in chilli shrimps. Add little mayonnaise and roasted cumin powder. Mix it well. Keep it aside.

2) We will use ripe mango yellow sauce as a second layer. 

Peel off one ripe mango. Cut it into small pieces. Add some salt, black salt, sugar and roasted  cumin powder, mint leaves and dry ginger powder. Blend it in a blender. Keep it aside.

3)we will use green chutney as a third layer.

Blend some fresh coriander, mint leaves, salt, roasted chana dal, green chilli, cumin seeds, dry mango powder, little lemon juice and some sugar.

4) we will use a bit of tomato ketchup on the top.

Cut some fresh lettuce leaves also.

Now let's start plating everything.

1) Take a cocktail glass.

2) Gently pour in the base chilli mayo sauce. Layer some lettuce leaves over it.

3) Now with a spoon, gently drop mango sauce from the corners and then towards centre. If you just pour it through a container it will get mixed up with the base sauce. 

4) Same way, gently drop green chutney from the corners and then towards centre.

5) Now top it up with few lettuce leaves. Now add some shrimps and roasted walnuts.

6) Rim the glass with a lemon slice and spinach leaves. 

Your shrimp cocktail is ready. Enjoy the lovely starter.

Cheers,

Shweta