Meghan Markle is stirring up controversy with her unconventional pasta dish.
In an episode of her highly-anticipated new Netflix series “With Love, Meghan,” the Duchess of Sussex shared her one-pan recipe for “skillet spaghetti” — but viewers were far from impressed.
On the show, the royal referred to the pasta as “noodles” as she chatted with the episode’s guest, her makeup artist Daniel Martin.
Meghan, 43, said that when she makes this dish, she will make it for her entire family — her husband, Prince Harry, 40, and their two children, Lilibet, 3, and Archie, 5 — although she clarified, “not that my children are eating heaps of noodles.”
“I will make enough that I can put leftovers in their lunch box,” she explained.
The dish involves putting dry pasta in a skillet filled with feta and cherry tomatoes before adding approximately three and a half cups of boiling water. Later, chard and kale are thrown into the pot, too.
She lets the spaghetti cook for about “four or five minutes until the noodle is done, al dente,” she added.
“It’s like that Beyonce song… ‘Cozy,’” she quipped.
But aghast viewers slammed her cooking skills, calling the recipe “Pinterest Pot Noodle” and claiming that adding boiling water to raw pasta was infringed on “the basics” of classic Italian cooking.
“That’s not food – that’s punishment!” one person snarked.
“With so little water, the dish must be a gluey, sticky, starchy brick,” someone else chimed in.
“She gives her kids leftover ‘noodles’ in their lunchboxes? Where are they in school?” another said.
“Her food looks very basic and a bit boring,” wrote one user.
“Another American destroying Italian food,” another critic lamented.
In the Netflix series, Meghan also revealed that she no longer uses her surname “Markle,” correcting guest Mindy Kaling and informing her that she’s “Sussex now.”
“You have kids and you go, ‘No, I share my name with my children,’” Meghan explained. “I didn’t know how meaningful that would be to me, but it just means so much to go, this is our family name, our little family name.”
To celebrate the debut of her show, Meghan also surprised fans of her now-defunct blog The Tig in New York City. She posted a snap of her superfans’ matching “As Ever” tattoos, a nod to her new lifestyle brand.
