Despite taking cooking lessons, Hollywood star Penelope Cruz has confessed that she is not very accomplished in the kitchen department.

Contactmusic quoted the Nine actress as saying, "I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes but it looks, in movies, that I cook much better than I cook. The things I can make, can taste pretty bad.

"I am not the most organised person in the kitchen, but I took a lot of lessons.

"But my lessons were more like to be the assistant of a chef so I could learn to cut the vegetables very fast.

"I can do all of those things really well, but then I'm not that good at cooking."