“Because I tend to cook with a lot of ingredients," Aarti said of her reason for choosing 5 Ingredients or Less as her favorite game. "So it’s a good challenge for me to try to figure out what I would do,” she said. In a special Thanksgiving-themed episode, she was particularly impressed when Randy Mulder chose tarragon as one of his five ingredients. “Tarragon goes wonderfully with poultry,” Aarti said to the other judges during the challenge.