Gota Sheddho recipe | Masala Gota | Gota chorchori recipe with videof

Gota Sheddho(seddho or siddho) is a slow-cooked Bengali whole vegetable curry without masala. Cooked along with whole veggies palong shaak is the most important ingredient in this dish. A mustard oil sauteed whole red chillies and paanch phoron flavoured this curry. Sugar is also added with salt to enhance its taste. It is a less spicy palong shaker chorchori with gota sobji if described in Bengali. A no onion or garlic dish. Not only for vegetarians, but it is also a completely vegan dish. 

Gota Sheddho is a traditional dish of West Bengal especially prepared on the Saraswati puja occasion. This curry is served with panta bhaat (last night’s fermented rice)and lau diye kul’er chatni (a sweet pickle with bottle gourd and ripe jujube) on the very next day as Sitala puja (Shitol Sosthi) meal. That day is a no cooking day, no body can turn on the stove. This meal not only keeps the stomach cool & healthy but our mothers can take one day’s rest from cooking.

Gota means whole here denotes whole vegetables and Sheddho means boiled or cooked without spics. As prepared on Saraswati puja occasion so obviously winter time vegetables are the main ingredient of this dish. Such as Palong shaak, sweet potatoes, baby potatoes, brinjal, green pea pods, whole green moong, flat beans, etc. 

Generally, 5 types of whole vegetables are cooked with palong shaak(palong shak with data) with a few whole pulses to make this curry. Sitting in Bangalore it wasn’t easy to collect the Shish palong(matured palong shak with data). So initially started making this dish with the regular palong shaak. Later started growing palong on my balcony and kept it until matured with a hard juicy stem. I used the same homegrown palong for making today’s recipe. However, 9 sojne phul (drumstick’s flower) is one more important ingredient as per our tradition, but not able to get so I made it without that flower. My mom says the drumstick flower works as an antipox, preventing us from having chicken pox or smallpox. All the ingredients of this curry have medicinal properties to prevent us from the illness of seasonal changes.

Gota Sheddho, prepared with little spices, is also known as masala Gota. In Bengal(West Bengal), there are two varieties: without spices and with little spices. The way the dish is prepared is determined by the old tradition of that particular family. For example, in my family, Gota Sheddho is prepared with little spices as per our family tradition.

My mom learned this dish from my Grandma and later passed it on to me. Due to being quite dry and almost having no gravy we call it gota chorchori too.

I am a huge fan of Gota Sheddho. If you are also a huge fan of this dish. So must try it on and let me know your feedback about this recipe. Write me down in the comment section below.

A few more Saraswati Puja special Bengali recipes

Bhoger Khichuri recipe

Labra Tarkari

Aloo Phulkopir Trakari

Bandhakopir Torkari

Luchi recipe

Tomato amsotto’r Chutney