Desi dish 'Paneer Tikka' trends on twitter amid US elections

A day prior to the presidential elections in USA, twitter was flooded with tweets related '#paneer tikka'. Thanks to Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal who started the trend with a picture of her home-made desi dish, that she posted in support of the Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Pramila Jayapal cooked a paneer dish which she claimed to be her ‘comfort food’ and said, "Compulsive, night-before-election activity: make comfort food. That’s paneer tikka tonight, in honour of electing #KamalaHarris Veep tomorrow since she just said on Instagram that her favourite North Indian food is any kind of tikka! Let’s go, people! VOTE! #BidenHarris2020,” while sharing a picture of the dish. She eventually posted the recipe of the dish too.

While few came in support for the 'paneer tikka' trend, many others felt that the dish is nowhere near the traditional paneer tikka and began sharing their version of recipe to the dish.