Tito Mboweni, South Africa’s ‘minister of cooking’, is live-tweeting a beef stew tutorial

He may spend all day balancing books, but Tito Mboweni seemingly also knows how to balance those flavours.

The minister of finance, unofficial minister of cooking, and politician with the tastiest Twitter feed in South Africa on Tuesday took to the social network for a lunchtime beef stew tutorial.

For the past four hours, a tasty meal starring beef steaks, peppers, carrots and “shito” — a pepper sauce from Ghana — has been cooking on the minister’s stove top.

Beef stew alert!! The bottle on the left contains “Shito” from Ghana. We are starting early today! Come with me… pic.twitter.com/epS0cDDAdc

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

He’s also taking South Africa through the process step-by-step.

Ready for the slow cooking. See you later! 👌🏿 pic.twitter.com/4iGhNH0isk

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

I am hiding the garlic!!🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/89fqDsLnyn

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

But wow, does it look good.

Olive oil, salt and spices done. Here we go! pic.twitter.com/vDVffh61Ec

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

“There is something about cooking which soothes the soul. Removes stressful things and makes one a better person. There is nothing lower class about cooking,” he tweeted, taking a brief break from photography to philosophise.

Then he added some wine.

Now adding red wine as per Maria’s recommendation!! Warwick First Lady!! Eish!! pic.twitter.com/Hpcclsb06v

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

And the final result:

Here we go! At my age one needs some carrots and cabbage mixed together!! Lunch time is here. Cool .👌🏿👌🏿💪🏿💪🏿 pic.twitter.com/TLhKCtdCTS

— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 28, 2019

This isn’t the first time Mboweni has entertained his 380 000 Twitter followers with an episode of Masterchef. In May, the minister of finance made a chicken stew with a whole lot of garlic. His cooking tutorials are slowly garnering meme status among South Africa’s gastronomes.

Edit: updated the article with the final tweeted image from Tito Mboweni.

Feature image: screenshot, Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) via Twitter