London, June 24 : Actor Keira Knightley is trying to improve her culinary skills with the help of her mother.

The 27-year-old recently got engaged to actor James Righton.

"I'm an alright cook. Not brilliant, but alright. My mum's a really good cook, but we had a really small kitchen, so she could never actually teach me any of the stuff that she made. But now she's starting to. I've gotten really good recipes, which are excellent," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Knightley as saying.

"I'm good at, like, a one-pot dish. It's the timing. I always walk away at a wrong point. And then everything burns! But stews and curries, I'm good at that," she added.

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