Ileana D’Cruz learns to cook this Egyptian starter

Actress Ileana D’Cruz on Tuesday shared a peek into her cooking diaries, giving a glimpse of the preparation of sourdough bread.

Taking to Instagram Stories, Ileana, who has 16.1 million followers on the photo sharing application, dropped a video in which we can see the base of sourdough bread.

The video has a tagline which reads as: “Today was a good day to bake some sourdough”. She can further be seen brushing off the excess flour from the dough. In the caption it’s written: “Brushing away the excess flour but mostly it feels so nice to play with my lovely baby poofy sourdough”.

The clip then shows Ileana scoring the dough. “Scoring the dough with one hand while the other is holding a phone that’s recording is clearly not easy”, says Ileana.

We can further see Ileana baking the bread and wrote: “Definitely need work on scoring but baby ‘Jack’ was yummmmm”. On the personal front, Ileana is married to Michael Dolan. The couple had tied the knot in May 2023, and welcomed their first child, a son named Koa Phoenix Dolan, in August 2023.

On the work front, she made her film debut in 2006 with the Telugu romance film ‘Devadasu’, directed by Y. V. S. Chowdary, and starring Ram. She has been a part of movies like ‘Pokiri’, ‘Kedi’, ‘Khatarnak’, ‘Rakhi’, ‘Munna’, ‘Bhale Dongalu’, ‘Kick’, ‘Shakti’, ‘Nenu Naa Rakshasi’, ‘Devudu Chesina Manushulu’, and ‘Nanban’.

Ileana had featured in 2012 period romantic comedy ‘Barfi!’, written and directed by Anurag Basu, starring Ranbir Kapoor, and Priyanka Chopra.

She was also a part of 2013 action comedy ‘Phata Poster Nikhla Hero’ directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film featured Shahid Kapoor.

Other Hindi films which starred Ileana are-- ‘Main Tera Hero’, ‘Happy Ending’, ‘Rustom’, ‘Mubarakan’, ‘Baadshaho’, ‘Raid’, ‘Pagalpanti’, ‘The Big Bull’, and ‘Tera Kya Hoga Lovely’. She last appeared in the romantic comedy movie ‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’, directed by Shirsha Guha Thakurta, in her directorial debut and produced by Sameer Nair, Deepak Segal, Tanuj Garg, Atul Kasbekar and Swati Iyer Chawla under the banner Applause Entertainment and Ellipsis Entertainment Production. It features Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi, and Sendhil Ramamurthy. She has been a part of music videos like -- ‘Pehli Dafa’, and ‘Sab Gazab’.