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Carlos Alcaraz’s victory yesterday in Melbourne has been celebrated around the world, and in his town El Palmar – a district of Murcia – they are already planning to organize a tribute to him soon. The tennis player’s feat is unique: having completed a legendary Grand Slam and being the first to have won the four important titles at just 22 years old. And for a few years now he has been a true world star who, on more than one occasion, has revealed the importance of good nutrition in your life.
The 2026 Australian Open champion has to continue a diet adapted to your needs to complement your hard trainingalthough from time to time he allows himself some license when he goes out and celebrates his victories – apparently with a combination of gin and lemon -. Now that it is more topical than ever, we want to know everything about ‘Carlitos’. And in this section, you already know that what they eat and where they eat our celebrities It provokes enormous curiosity in us.
Everyone knows that pasta It is part of the diet of any athlete for its energy contribution thanks to its carbohydrate content, which is digested slowly, helps keep glucose levels stable and is the main fuel for the muscles. And it is an ingredient that cannot be missing from Alcaraz’s diet, nor can healthy fats and proteins.
Pasta with cocoa cream and hazelnuts?
The Spanish tennis prodigy has confessed that an hour and a half before each match – as he told Pablo Motos on one of his visits to the program ‘El Hormiguero’ – what he takes is “a pasta with 100% cocoa cream, hazelnuts, dates and extra virgin olive oil to give me energy.”
© ShutterstockThe mixture that Alcaraz takes is a compound that is already prepared – Ambrosia Cocoa cream under the Paleobull brand -, it does not have any type of preservative or sweetener added and is an energy and calorie bomb, since it contains 500 kcal per 100 grams of product. Cam sunflower lecithin, what is a natural emulsifier, stabilizer and antioxidant derived from sunflower seeds, which stands out for providing healthy fats and phospholipids, substances that They help better concentration.
Apparently, the young man prepares the pasta mixture with this ‘sauce’ himself before going out on the field and it is about “one of the secrets of his success”as he has confessed. It reminds us a little of the ‘healthy’ cocoa cream that we have already proposed to you on some occasions here; but Alcaraz’s version is full of calories, fats and carbohydrates, essential to cope with the great wear and tear caused by his intense physical activity.
How to make pasta with cocoa cream and hazelnuts
We ‘borrowed’ the recipe from influencer Guipuzcoan Iñaki Tejedor, better known like Iñaki Gastro. Regarding the dish that Alcaraz eats, he has his own homemade version on his networks, “a pasta that is, to say the least, curious… It is a very strange mixture. It is not my favorite pasta, but it would be wrong to say that it is not good,” reveals the young chef.
Ingredients:
- 120 g pitted dates
- 125 g of hazelnuts
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp of water
- a pinch of salt
- Pasta
Preparation method:
- The first thing you make is the cocoa, hazelnut and olive oil cream. To do this, soak some dates in hot water for 30 minutes.
- Grind the hazelnuts until you obtain a liquid paste and add the drained dates, olive oil, cocoa and a pinch of salt to grind everything together.
- To lighten the texture, gradually add the water to hydrate the dates. “This cocoa cream will last a month in the refrigerator and is half the price of what Carlos Alcaraz consumes,” says the influencer, who has more than 360 thousand followers on Instagram alone.
- Cook the pasta, drain and add the cream.
- Add a little of the pasta cooking water to lighten the cream and decorate with some chopped hazelnuts.
Carlos Alcaraz’s favorite restaurants
In addition to trying this dish, you can go to see some of Murcia’s favorite restaurants. The world tennis No. 1 has confessed on more than one occasion that he loves kebabs and the sushibut what he is most passionate about is paella and, of course, his mother’s kitchen and of his land. From time to time there is some gastronomic tribute or another in good restaurants.
© @cambiodeterciogroupIn Melbourne, he ate several days at the Spanish restaurant Change of Thirdwhich is in the facilities of the Rod Laver Arena, the venue where the matches are played. It is known that other restaurants that the new champion likes are: From Mary, specialized in meats and Argentine cuisine, and The Supreme Pockethomemade food, both in Madrid; Siena, with Italian cuisine and very visited by celebritiesaround Roland Garros; the Zumawhich have several delegations, but Carlos Alcaraz was in the New York one to try their contemporary Japanese cuisine during the US Open 2025.
