Freddie Prinze Jr. stopped by “Live! With Kelly” on Monday to talk about his new cookbook “Back to the Kitchen.”
The 40-year-old former teen heartthrob joined Kelly Ripa and guest host D.L. Hughley in the kitchen, where he whipped out his fried chicken recipe to which he added some Latino flavor.
“Why is this called Puerto Rican/New Mexican fried chicken,” Kelly asked after taking a sip of her ice-cold beer.
“Ok. My dad was half-Puerto Rican. I am a Puerto Rican,” Prinze Jr. replied. “So, I spent a lot of summers out there. My mom would send me out there so I could learn about the culture.”
As he continued to tell the story of how this recipe came together, he decided to turn on his Puerto Rican accent to imitate his late grandmother.
“She goes, ‘Freddie, I want you to go outside, you pick the tastiest chicken you want,’” the actor said noting that he just sounded like his father.
After explaining how the poor chicken ended up in the fryer, Hughley joked, “So, chicken doesn’t automatically come in a bucker?”
During a recent interview, the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” star revealed he has always had a passion for cooking.
“I’ve always cooked for actors I’ve been lonely on location with,” he said. “And I’d always become friends with the chefs in the cities we shot in. After enough people asked for recipes, it felt like the right time to put 20 years of stories in this business into a cookbook.”
According to the publication, the actor’s recipes are so good that you may even end up falling in love with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s husband.
“I actually once made lobster sauce that changed an actress completely,” he revealed. “She fell in love with me to the point that it was creepy.”
Listen to Prinze Jr.’s Puerto Rican accent in the video below. Did he pull it off?
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