Meghan Markle may be bracing for the release of her new cooking show on Netflix, but it’s not the first time she’s spoken about cooking tips and tricks.
The Duchess of Sussex’s new lifestyle series, ‘With Love, Meghan’, will hit the screens on January 15 and in it, Prince Harry’s wife will share cooking, gardening and hosting tips.
But Meghan has been previously quite open about her love of food – way before she started dating Prince Harry – and now a clip of one of her old appearances has resurfaced ahead of her Netflix show’s release.
In 2016, the year she started dating the prince and when she still ran her lifestyle blog, The Tig, Meghan, who was still working as an actress, appeared on NBC’s Today Show.
While there, the duchess showed her culinary skills on camera while making a grilled ceasar salad with shrimp and even gave one of her best cooking tips – grilling lettuce.
Meghan, speaking to former Today host Matt Lauer, described how she’d make “yummy” handheld lettuce salad boats gilled with grilled shrimp.
She said in the resurfaced clip: “It’s really simple. We’re just going to do a nice grilled romaine salad with grilled shrimp on it.
“So we have Italian seasoning, crushed red chilli flakes, honey, you can do any sort of dressing you want.”
She then began marinating the shrimp and added olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper before telling the viewers to leave it for about an hour in the fridge.
The former actress added that the marinated protein should be kept in room temperature before being grilled.
She then moved on to the lettuce, saying she’s going to grill it, with Mr Lauer admitting that he “hadn’t heard” of anyone grilling lettuce.
Meghan said: “This is what I love. You can grill lettuce and it has the most amazing flavour.
“It holds up. You can grill radicchio, kale, whatever you want.
“You want to halve it lengthwise so that it ends up still keeping that base on there because, ultimately, you can end up holding it like a hand-held salad.”
The duchess then put everything on the grill, notice after she placed the lettuce: “They’re going to cook really quickly, but again because it’s a sturdy lettuce , it’s not going to break down. You’ll get a nice char mark.”
After she finished assembling her salad boats, Meghan said: “It makes this little boat shape so it’s really easy to fill in. They’re really yummy and so easy!”
The duchess’s recipe could be found on her now-defunct blog.
The video went viral on social media following the announcement of Meghan’s new cooking show on Netflix.
Royal fans took to social media to praise the duchess.
One user wrote on Instagram: “Meghan is a good teacher! Very informative!”
Another one said: “That’s sooooo amazing and sooooo beautifully done. looking very delightful and attractive.”
A third one added: “Meghan regained her voice.”
A fourth one commented: “I wish Meghan all the best with her new series. I hope it goes global and she can resurrect the Tig into a wildly popular show.”
