How to Access Kubernetes commands from Jenkins container

I am creating an end to end pipeline setup entirely on kubernetes. I have setup Minikube on Ubuntu ec2 instance. I have setup jenkins in a pod that pulls the code, builds image and pushes to dockerhub using docker in docker. Now I want to run kubectl commands from Jenkins pod to deploy my application on a new pod in the same cluster but I am not sure how to access my host kubernetes from jenkins pod. please guide me.