A plate of chicken biryani is 400 to 700 calories depending on where it comes from. Home biryani with measured oil: 400. Hyderabadi restaurant dum biryani: 600 to 700. Zomato/Swiggy delivery portion: 500 to 650. The same dish, wildly different calorie realities. Here is the full picture. Chicken Biryani is one of those foods that’s … Read more
Rajma chawal is comfort food that actually has solid nutritional credentials. The rajma brings protein and fibre, the rice brings carbs. Together they form a complete protein (rice + beans = all essential amino acids). One plate costs 350 to 450 calories. Not bad at all. This is the complete calorie breakdown for rajma chawal. … Read more
Curd rice is the comfort food of South India and the default meal when nothing else works. It is also surprisingly light on calories. A bowl of homemade curd rice with just a tempering of mustard seeds is one of the more diet-friendly rice preparations you can make. This is the complete calorie breakdown for … Read more
Pulao sits somewhere between plain rice and biryani on the calorie scale. Less oil than biryani, more flavour than plain rice. A solid middle-ground option if you know the numbers. This is the complete calorie breakdown for pulao. Every variant, every preparation method, every portion size that matters in an Indian kitchen. No generic database … Read more
Fried rice takes perfectly innocent plain rice at 130 cal/100g and fries it in oil with soy sauce and vegetables until it becomes 180+ cal/100g. A restaurant plate of chicken fried rice can be 500 to 650 calories. Here is the full damage report. Fried Rice is one of those foods that’s perfectly fine occasionally … Read more
Nobody eats a ‘serving’ of biryani. You eat a plate. And a plate of chicken biryani from a restaurant is 500 to 700 calories. A plate of mutton biryani with extra ghee can cross 800. Here is what biryani actually costs, from home to Hyderabadi restaurant. Biryani is one of those foods that’s perfectly fine … Read more