Padma Lakshmi is not just a famous model, author and actor but also a notable cook show host and a true culinary enthusiast, who has hosted the cooking competition program Top Chef for almost two decades. Her passion for food is visible on her social media food where she regularly shares recipes for selectable dishes. This time, however, Padma Lakshmi came up with advice for cooking a “hard” recipe.
“If you’re intimidated by new recipes, you’re not alone!” she said, adding that the best offense is a good defense. “A little mise en place will go a long way.”
If numerous long steps of any recipe make you terrified, the 52-year-old suggests not being intimidated by them. “It’s not a hard recipe. It just has a lot of steps and components to it,” she said in the video.
Padma Lakshmi added, “So don’t freak out. Read the recipe, any recipe, once or twice through. Get all your ingredients, chop them all, measure them all, get them in line in the order you will need them, and I guarantee you this will take a lot of the angst out of any recipe you cook.”
Concluding, she highlighted that this is something that all professionals chefs do all day long in their restaurants. “It’s called a mise en place.”
Several people resonated with Padma Lakshmi’s cooking advice and took to the comment section to share their thoughts.
While a user wrote, “Culinary school definitely eliminated the fear of trying. Cooking really is just preparation,” another commented: “ALTHOUGH, some online recipes can be too fru fru and they don’t need to be. Recipes are a matter of expression. In my opinion, some recipes give you a strong base from which you can create your own. Others take away your creativity altogether.”
“All this! Sometimes, a recipe isn’t really ‘hard’ just a bit time-consuming. My Hubby also loves to cook so we don’t buy gifts for birthdays, anniversaries or Valentine’s Day, we cook recipes that are more labor-intensive or that take days to prepare and the gift is the cooking together and then share a great meal, ” shared a user.
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