Internet Perplexed After Gwyneth Paltrow Suggests Using Arugula as Dairy Substitute on TODAY

It’s a cooking tip that has people on the internet scratching their heads rather than rolling up their sleeves.

On May 27, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow visited Studio 1A to share her recipe for turkey meatballs. Goop Kitchen’s new location in New York will offer the dish, so Paltrow prepared it for Carson Daly and Savannah Guthrie.

“I love being in the kitchen,” Paltrow told them as she chopped mushrooms to include in the meatballs. “I find it very grounding.”

While Paltrow may find cooking grounding, the culinary advice she offered viewers unsettled many of them.

As she added Parmesan cheese to her meatballs, she said, “If you want to avoid dairy, one trick that I do is I dice up arugula and I put it in.”

“Really?” Savannah replied. “That’s weird.”

“It sounds weird, but it kind of adds like a nice texture to it, and it’s delicious,” Paltrow says.

On Instagram, where we posted the video, people had a field day with her unusual tip.

“Is this rage bait,” one user wondered.

“‘Hello police? I need to report a crime?’” wrote another.

“I’ll try it in my coffee right now!” someone else joked.

“When I don’t have milk for my pancake mix, I just add lawn clippings,” quipped one more.

Food Network star and frequent TODAY guest Sunny Anderson had a lot to say about the “Marty Supreme” star’s cooking tip, posting a video of herself enjoying a cup of arugula-topped coffee on Instagram.

“She don’t even believe herself,” Anderson said in her video. “Usually, when someone’s about to tell you a lie, they don’t engage with you visually, and then when the part of the lie they want you to believe comes up, they look you in the eye like they want to convince you of it.”

“I love Gwenny too. I love everybody there,” Anderson added. “I’m just saying, I don’t believe Gwenny. I don’t believe you, baby. You can goop all you want … arugula diced up ain’t never added any dairy vibes to anything.”

While it was mostly an arugula-packed pile-on, there was at least one person who seemed to get what Paltrow was saying.

“It sounds odd but I think it’s out of context,” Italy-based food writer Elizabeth Minchilli wrote. “Instead of adding grated parmigiano, you can absolutely add diced arugula. This will lighten the texture and add flavor and moisture.”

And Goop poked a little fun at the whole situation by posting a photo of a cookie sitting on a cup filled with arugula on Instagram, with a supposed response to Paltrow’s dairy-free hack: “‘i love a cold cup of arugula to dip my cookies in!’”

“Y’all have SOME nerve 😅🤣🤣🤣,” Anderson commented.