What Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor Really Eat Isn't What You'd Expect

Chef Vicky Ratnani has been cooking for celebrities and dignitaries for years now. He helms restaurants, has published books on food and anchors cooking shows, a name to reckon with in the food industry, he was roped in by AirBnb to be a part of their Bollywood Insider campaign, an online experiences series that gave people across the globe an opportunity to get acquainted with Bollywood stars and their lifestyles. Chef Vicky showed how to cook some of the most indulgent cheat meals favoured by Bollywood stars. 

Speaking about the campaign, he says, “Cooking has always been my passion, I have always enjoyed sharing my love for food with other people. Bollywood Insiders on Airbnb brought this unique opportunity to take my passion a notch up by sharing my experience, expertise and love for food with people across the globe through Airbnb’s Online Experiences. Through the years, I have cooked for all kinds of celebrities and dignitaries - from Nelson Mandela to several Bollywood stars - and Bollywood Insiders is a great platform to share my experience with fellow gastronauts.” Through the interactive cooking session, he recreated delectable ‘Bollywood cheat meals’ from scratch with ingredients readily available at home. 

Stars and their favourite food

We asked chef Vicky to share some secrets about the favourite food of our favourite Bollywood stars and his revelations took us by surprise. “People often think that their favourite Bollywood stars follow extremely strict diets. But some of the movie industry’s brightest stars are major ‘foodies’ While they may have strict diet regimes for times when they are shooting or when they are working out with their trainers to get into the skin of a certain character, they all have their favourite ‘cheat meals’ they like to indulge in on their days off.”  

So what do the stars like to eat? The chef lists the kind of foods that each star likes toe at. 

“Ranbir Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar are great meat eaters. They like to include well cooked or well grilled meats as part of their diets and Ranbir is particularly fond of lamb shanks. 

 

“When it comes to Hrithik Roshan, he is a big sea food eater, so whenever I cook for him, fish and prawns amongst others will always be a part of the meal.”

 

“Priyanka Chopra is fond of Italian food and hence I distinctly remember cooking a beautiful risotto for her once.” 

 

“Shahid Kapoor, as you all know is a vegetarian and hence what he likes eating the most is different varieties of Paneer.” 

 

“Malaika Arora actually loves eating simple Sindhi Kadhi, since it’s also my favourite meal, I love cooking it for her.

 

 

Before signing off, he lets us in onto some secrets of his food. He says, “the most important thing whilst cooking for anybody is choosing the right ingredients, along with the ingredients you also have to be wary of preferences. Whether they like their food spicy or not whether they’re following any diet or not, things like that. So, keeping all these things in my mind I curate dishes for them.”