Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 besan chilla with paneer

What 1 besan chilla with paneer comes to in calories, protein and carbohydrate, worked out from its ingredients.

Numbers worked out by Poshan Labs from IFCT 2017 (ICMR-NIN). Last updated 26 October 2026.

One besan chilla with paneer is about 187 kcal, with 11 g of protein, 18 g of carbohydrate, 5.2 g of fibre and 7.7 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 besan chilla

Besan chilla with paneer: calories from 1 to 4 chillas

187 kcal1 besan chilla with paneer
374 kcal2 besan chillas with paneer
561 kcal3 besan chillas with paneer
748 kcal4 besan chillas with paneer

Each row is the whole dish at that amount, so you can read off what you ate.

AmountCalories (kcal)Protein (g)Carbs (g)Fat (g)
1 besan chilla with paneer18711187.7
2 besan chillas with paneer374213715
3 besan chillas with paneer561325523
4 besan chillas with paneer748427331

Numbers are for home cooking with the oil listed. How they were worked out is at the end of the page.

What goes into it

This is how 1 besan chilla with paneer is built in the sample diet charts. Each ingredient links to its own page.

IngredientAmountCalories (kcal)
Chana dal30 g99
Paneer20 g52
Onion (Pyaz)15 g7
Tomato15 g3
Groundnut oil3 g27
Total187
  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 27 kcal of the 187. Without the groundnut oil, 1 besan chilla with paneer would come to about 160 kcal.
  • Measure it: the oil is the part of this number you decide, so measure it with a spoon rather than pouring.

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Which diet charts use it

Some of the sample diet charts that use it, with the portion that fits a 1,500 calorie day. Change the calories on a plan page and the portion changes with it.

Counting a whole plate

The dals and pulses page puts chana dal next to the rest of its food group.

How this was worked out

The page adds up the IFCT values for every ingredient at the weight used in the sample diet charts. The weights are raw, as the tables measure them, and the oil is the oil in the recipe. Katori means a standard 150 ml bowl. Your cooking will differ a little, so treat the number as a good starting point and check it against how you feel and what the scale says.

Calories and nutrients are calculated from the Indian Food Composition Tables 2017, National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR).

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