In 1999, she published a cookbook titled "Easy Exotic," and followed it up with another called "Tangy, Tart, Hot, and Sweet" in 2007. She then published her memoir, "Love, Loss, and What We Ate," in 2016 and it became a New York Times bestseller. That same year she also published "The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs."
Most recently, she released her first children's book, "Tomatoes for Neela," in 2021.
"It's also, more importantly, an intergenerational story about an Asian family who writes down all of the recipes that are important to them," Lakshmi told Yahoo News in 2021 about "Tomatoes for Neela." "The book tries to show young children how writing down recipes is literally saving pieces of our family history."