Sunday, January 25, 2015

Gota Seddho Ghugni

Wishing everyone a very happy Saraswati Puja and Vasant Panchmi.
Cooking "Gota Seddho" is a ritual for "Shitol Shosthi" which is the day after Saraswati Pujo. "Gota" means whole and "Seddho" means boiled. Traditionally five different whole lentils are boiled with some whole vegetables like baby potato, baby eggplants, peas in pods, sweet potato, old spinach (sish palong), kul (Jujube??), sojne phul (drumstick flower) etc. without any spices and then mixed in salt and some people add raw mustard oil and green chillies for taste. This is normally cooked on the day of "Puja" in almost all the Hindu "Ghoti" (originally from West Bengal) households..which is consumed on the next day! This day is called "Shitol Shosthi". Mothers celebrate this for long and healthy life for their children. And eating pre-cooked "Cold" meals (normally cooked a day in prior) is a part of rituals. My "jethima" (aunt) and my mother-in-law cooks this "Gota Seddho" every year.
But this particular recipe I am sharing here is NOT the traditional Gota Seddho. It's my mother's recipe. I never ate this anywhere apart from my home. I can definitely call it a family recipe. It tastes heavenly!
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