- By Aashish Vashistha
- Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:39 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
With the New Year just around the corner, Rahul Gandhi’s official YouTube channel on Sunday released a video showing him making marmalade from scratch with his mother Sonia Gandhi. The recipe belongs to Rahul Gandhi’s sister and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.
The duo cooked orange marmalade with fresh fruits plucked from their kitchen garden. In the widely shared video, Gandhi was heard saying “If BJP wants to get the jam, they can get it too”. In response, Sonia Gandhi joked that the BJP will throw it at them. Following this, Gandhi said, “That’s good, then we can pick it up again.”
The mother-son duo was seen cleaning the oranges, removing the leaves, and chopping them in the video. While stripping the pulp, the Wayanad MP also stated that it is her sister Priyanka Gandhi’s recipe and her mother’s favourite jam.
After making the marmalade, they placed it in little jars and attached a brown paper note that read, "With love, from Sonia and Rahul." The video which was shared on Gandhi’s YouTube channel carried the logo of the Bharat Jodo Yatra campaign which was carried out by him.
“Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. The well-known version is made from bitter orange,” the text in the video read.
Rahul Gandhi also mentioned the politics of food in the video and said, “A huge amount of political fight has been about food. Gandhiji had a particular vision about food. Vegetarian, goat milk and he had a set of nutritional ideas. I also have a set of nutritional ideas slightly different than Gandhiji’s.”
The Congress leader also said that Sonia Gandhi was the best cook in their house and stated that his mother later learned to cook Indian dishes from Kashmiri relatives.