Padma Lakshmi’s Daughter Krishna Cooks a ‘Chaotic’ Meal

Padma Lakshmi took the backseat and permit her daughter cook dinner meal.

In a video shared on Thursday, the celeb chef announced that it is been a “really hectic week listed here in New York,” so she is owning her teenage daughter Krishna cook dinner evening meal.

Krishna, 13, also referred to by the previous Top Chef host as “Small Hands,” says that she will be generating butter sriracha couscous. She continues to reveal that she arrived up with the dish when she was 11 many years aged and her mom “really liked it so she desires me to cook it nowadays.”

She provides 1 cup of couscous and prepares it for each the offer instructions and sautés the greens mainly because “that is a fantastic issue to do,” she clarifies just. 

“Do you like cooking?” asks the digicam man or woman.

In best comedic timing, Krishna then drops the pat of butter and handles her experience with her hand.

“I like cooking,” she responses after having the butter in the pan and again on keep track of. “I never know if it is a generational thing but most of my food stuff that I cook dinner independently is finished in the microwave and in a mug.”

She carries on, “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 instantaneous ramen, make sure you?’”

The teen virtually forgets to incorporate her chopped onions to the pan but remembers just in time for the grains to be completely ready. 

She adds butter, milk and sriracha to the couscous, introducing further heat for each her individual flavor.

“Do you like spice a whole lot?” she’s asked. Krishna swiftly responds: “Yes.”

“I like spice but it just can’t be too significantly,” Krishna adds, reminiscing on some situations of trying extremely spicy foodstuff. “I bear in mind me and my friends experienced a Carolina Reaper and we did the Death Nut.” 

Following changing the spice levels and stirring in the sautéed veggies, she dives in. “As chaotic as that was, it is truly very good,” Krishna claims right after having a bite.

This is not the very first time Krishna has followed into her mother’s culinary footsteps. She’s appeared on Padma’s various cooking collection. Krishna popped up in a Hanukkah-themed episode of Style the Nation, the 53-year-old’s award-profitable journey collection, supplied that Krishna’s father, Adam Dell, is Jewish.

“Her father’s family, at first, is from New York and is Ashkenazi Jewish and did stay on the Lessen East Side. And so to do an episode about Ashkenazi Jews in New York and fake that I have no connection to it would’ve been disingenuous,” Lakshmi explained to Folks in 2021. “It designed excellent sense for her to be there at that Hanukkah evening meal. And so which is why she’s there in that sequence.”

Krishna is also not worried to roast her famed mother from time to time, like when she interrupted a cooking video clip posted on Instagram in August 2022 and explained to her mother “no person cares” about what she was filming.

“My daughter preserving me humble,” Lakshmi wrote around the movie.