Padma Lakshmi shares advice for cooking a ‘hard’ recipe

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 many 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.”

 

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Concluding, she highlighted that this is something that all professional 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 recipes online 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 labour-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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