Celebrity chef Harsh Dixit, who cooks meals for several of Bollywood’s biggest stars, recently gave an insider’s glimpse into Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s eating lifestyle and shared the way he managed their stringent food demands for a special event. The chef revealed all these details in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter India.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, Chef Harsh remembered the couple’s 2019 wedding anniversary, when they had asked for a Vietnamese Pho-inspired meal. The catch? Pho conventionally consists of beef, chicken stock, and even snake-based ingredients in some cases none of which coincided with the pair’s vegan, gluten-free dietary habits at the time.
To make it work, the chef devised a vegetarian alternative that was not only free from flavour or authenticity, but actually enhanced both. He replaced the broth, made from meat, with one flavoured using lemongrass, ginger, and coriander root, and utilized rice noodles, which are gluten-free by nature. To recreate the “snake” component of the dish, he got creative using smoked snake gourd and filling it with a combination of tofu, coconut, peanuts, and herbs.
Harsh described that the concept was to make the meal interesting without breaching their dietary limits. “That’s the challenge and fun of being a private chef,” he indicated, noting that the couple never ate beef during any of his service.
The chef also discussed his signature ramen dishes, which are favourites among other celebrities such as Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone. For them, he usually makes chicken or pork-based ramen and adjusts the broth according to their taste. Alia, he explained, was brought back memories of her travels upon tasting one of his dishes, while Deepika apparently prefers her ramen “extra spicy and ultra-hot,” prepared with Miracle Noodles, which are very low in calories.
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Apart from Virat and Anushka, Chef Harsh also has Katrina Kaif, Shahid Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez, Arjun Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur, and Ranbir Kapoor as his regular customers.
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