“Mangalore main kahaan sushi khaunga?” - KL Rahul spills beans on his diet secrets

Veteran Indian batter KL Rahul has revealed his diet secrets, adding that he will have Indian food wherever he is in the world for the afternoon meal. Notably, Rahul is one of the fittest players in the Indian dressing room at the moment. 

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Speaking exclusively with Jatin Sapru on the Humans of Bombay YouTube channel, Rahul made it clear that he had always grown up following a simple diet in Mangalore, when Sapru tried to pull the keeper-batter’s leg by saying he always has Sushi.

“Kaunsa sushi? Mangalore main kahaan sushi khaunga? Neer dosa, biryani khata tha main! (What sushi? Where would I get sushi in Mangalore in those days? I used to eat neer dosa and biryani). I used to eat very simple food, even now my food is very simple,” Rahul said on The Humans of Bombay YouTube channel.

“I just manage my quantities. I don’t eat sugar. I mean I control sugar, can’t say I don’t eat sugar. It’ll be wrong. I stay away from wheat. Again, I’m not saying I’m completely off wheat. I will still eat a pizza once in a while. But I have a calorie count in a day, and I try to manage all of that. If I have a craving, I’ll still try and manage within that. I love my Indian food,” he added.

“Morning breakfast will be dosa and bhurji or eggs and stuff like that. If I’m at home in India, and I am getting dosa, I’m eating dosa six days a week with my eggs. Some sort of egg preparation, egg dosa. Plain dosa with a bhurji or something like that. I eat four eggs, in whatever form I feel like on the day from Eggs Benedict to omelette to Spanish omelette to scrambled eggs to bhurji whatever I feel like. And for carbs I eat dosa if I’m in India. If I’m abroad, sometimes I eat gluten-free toast if I’m hungry. I have a protein mix in the morning with some berries and bananas and some of that nuts, some fats and fruit and protein. So that’s my breakfast. Simple,” he stated.

“An afternoon meal wherever I am in the world is Indian. I have to eat Indian food wherever I am. Yeah. So I’m always eating Indian food for lunch,” he said.

“I count my portions. Like I’ll eat 150 grams of carbs, which is rice on a non-training day and a non-match day. On a match day and training days, I’ll eat 200 grams. And that stays the same for dinner as well. Then I eat 200 to 250 grams of protein. My preferred protein is seafood. I love seafood,” he noted. 

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“Sometimes I eat mutton and lamb as well. These are the only two meats I eat. No chicken, and no other meat. 250 grams of that (meat) and another 150 grams or 200 grams of veggies like stirred. If I’m eating Indian food it might be like some subzi. I don’t have any restrictions with what I can eat and what I can’t eat. But I try and avoid aloo (potatoes) sometimes. So dinner is the same thing, but in a lighter, more continental sort of cuisine,” he concluded. 

For the unversed, Rahul is one of the key members in the current Indian Test and ODI set-up. In Tests, he has accumulated 4025 runs from 66 games at an average of 36.26 with 11 centuries and 20 half-centuries. On the other hand, he has played 88 ODIs, scoring 3092 runs at an average of 48.31 with seven centuries and 18 half-centuries.

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