Padma Lakshmi opens up about her and daughter's differences in kitchen

Padma Lakshmi is opening up about her not-so-picture-perfect reality of cooking with her teenage daughter, Krishna.

The Top Chef alum, 54, got candid about her mother-daughter time in the kitchen for her upcoming cookbook Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond, which is set to be released in November.

Her book also includes a recipe from her 15-year-old daughter, who she welcomed with businessman Adam Dell.

“I’m trying to show how recipes evolve, and so that's how her recipe came about,” Padma said of Krishna’s recipe during the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.

“I like to cook with her. Actually, she prefers to cook with her father, to be honest. She says I'm a little overbearing," Padma admitted

"You know, she's 15, so I want her to go to college with like a dozen recipes — it can be simple — an omelette, a roast chicken, a couple of pasta sauces, some curry rice, some vegetables, two ways to do potatoes, stuff like that, just simple things that make herself sufficient," she continued.

Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond features recipes that Padma has learned and adapted through traveling.

“It's basically recipes from immigrant cultures in this country, and in often cases, they're not the most quote, unquote authentic, whatever that means, or they're not doing all of the steps that they would do to make that recipe in the old country. Because it's about Americans who probably both parents work full time, and they still crave those flavors, but they want to make it simpler,” she told People Magazine.

Padma added, “You've got so many different interesting foods in America that I actually think are the most exciting food in the world. It's like a microcosm of the world, but it's funneled through what's available in the states and what's easy for people to do, and also what's in the zeitgeist.”