New Delhi: Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is known for his fondness for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words. But this time Tharoor has posted an exotic description of our very own favourite Bhelpuri and Twitterati can’t keep calm over it. Tharoor posted the recipe of the common Indian street food on his Twitter handle and it has undoubtedly gone viral like any of his other tweets using his rich vocabulary skills. Even though Tharoor shared the photo-post Bhelpuri recipe stating that he received it on WhatsApp, the recipe description was attributed to the author-politician, and we are doubting that it must have been done as an intended pun for Tharoor’s penchant for multisyllabic words. He posted the recipe with the caption, “As received on @WhatsApp. Good for weekend consumption! Face with tears of joy”.

Describing the bhel used in the savoury snack as the “exotic crispy wild rice from the Western Ghats rainforest”, Tharoor’s exotic Bhelpuri recipe stated that the snack comprised of the chef’s secret micro-greens sourced from exclusive greenhouses in the Nilgiris, luscious salsa-rosso of Ras Al-Khaimah dates, and exceedingly rare Assamese Bhoot Jolokia chillies (ghost pepper). The recipe further added that the preparation can be seasoned with a sauce of sweet Kerala beach-sand soil-grown tamarind and Malabar organic raw sugar.

It further read that all these ingredients are then tossed in a bronze bowl with macedoines (usually a mixture of vegetables or fruit cut into small pieces) of Gujarati winter shallots (onion) and Vidarbha heritage potatoes and riotously festooned with a cacophony of Hyderabadi chickpea-flavoured crunchies “bugea” and “papdy” cooked “a la Marwaraise”.

Soon after Tharoor’s Weekend recipe post went viral, many netizens even asked Tharoor to share the recipe of their favorite dishes with the ‘Tharoorian’ touch. Let’s have a look at people’s reaction to his tweet:

Tharoor’s tweet has so far garnered over 1.9K likes, 225 retweets and hundreds of comments. So, what do you think about the post shared by Shashi Tharoor?