Padma Lakshmi and her daughter Krishna.Photo:Padma Lakshmi/ Instagram
Padma Lakshmi/ Instagram
Padma Lakshmitook the backseat and let her daughter cook dinner.
In a video shared on Thursday, the celebrity chef announced that it’s been a “really busy week here in New York,” so she is having her teenage daughterKrishnacook dinner.
She adds one cup of couscous and prepares it per the package instructions and sautés the vegetables because “that is a good thing to do,” she explains simply.
“Do you like cooking?” asks the camera person.
In perfect comedic timing, Krishna then drops the pat of butter and covers her face with her hand.
“I like cooking,” she answers after getting the butter in the pan and back on track. “I don’t know if it’s a generational thing but most of my food that I cook independently is done in the microwave and in a mug.”
She continues, “So when [my mom] cooks, she’s like, ‘Oh yeah, let’s bake it, let’s put it in the oven, let’s do a washed egg white glaze.’ And I’m like, ‘Can I just make instant ramen, please?’”
Krishna Makes Butter Sriracha Couscous.Padma Lakshmi/ Instagram
The teen almost forgets to add her chopped onions to the pan but remembers just in time for the grains to be ready.
She adds butter, milk and sriracha to the couscous, adding extra heat per her personal taste.
“Do you like spice a lot?” she’s asked. Krishna quickly responds: “Yes."
“I like spice but it can’t be too much,” Krishna adds, reminiscing on some instances of trying extremely spicy food. “I remember me and my friends had a Carolina Reaper and we did the Death Nut.”
After adjusting the spice levels and stirring in the sautéed veggies, she dives in. “As chaotic as that was, it is really good,” Krishna says after taking a bite.
Padma and Krishna Lakshmi.Aurora Rose/Variety via Getty
This isn’t the first time Krishna has followed into her mother’s culinary footsteps. She’s appeared on Padma’s various cooking series. Krishna popped up in a Hanukkah-themed episode ofTaste the Nation, the 53-year-old’s award-winning travel series, given that Krishna’s father, Adam Dell, is Jewish.
“Her father’s family, originally, is from New York and is Ashkenazi Jewish and did live on the Lower East Side. And so to do an episode about Ashkenazi Jews in New York and pretend that I have no connection to it would’ve been disingenuous,” Lakshmi told PEOPLE in 2021. “It made perfect sense for her to be there at that Hanukkah dinner. And so that’s why she’s there in that sequence.”
Krishna is also not afraid toroast her famous momfrom time to time, like when she interrupted a cooking video posted on Instagram in August 2022 and told her mom “nobody cares” about what she was filming.
“My daughter keeping me humble,” Lakshmi wrote over the video.
source: people.com
