Breakfast

Medu vada is deep-fried, which makes it sound terrible for diets. But at 130 calories per piece with 4g protein (from urad dal), it is actually not as bad as you think. The real problem is not the first vada. It is the third and fourth one you eat because they taste incredible with sambhar … Read more

Uttapam is a thick dosa with toppings baked in. Think of it as the Indian pancake. At 150 calories per piece, it sits between idli (39 cal) and masala dosa (250 cal) on the calorie scale. A solid middle-ground breakfast option. This is the complete calorie breakdown for uttapam. Every variant, every preparation method, every … Read more

Upma divides South India like nothing else. You either love it or you pretend to love it because your mother made it. Either way, at 180 calories per bowl, it is a perfectly reasonable breakfast that gets unfairly dismissed as boring. Boring works when you are trying to lose weight. This is the complete calorie … Read more

A plain dosa is 120 calories. A masala dosa is 250. A ghee roast masala dosa from a restaurant is 400+. Same word ‘dosa,’ three completely different calorie realities. The type, the size, and the ghee make all the difference. This is the complete calorie breakdown for dosa. Every variant, every preparation method, every portion … Read more