Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 plate chole bhature

What 1 plate chole bhature comes to in calories, protein and carbohydrate, worked out from its ingredients.

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

One plate chole bhature is about 638 kcal, with 16 g of protein, 79 g of carbohydrate, 7.1 g of fibre and 27 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 plate chole bhature

Chole bhature: calories from ½ to 2 plates

319 kcal½ plate chole bhature
638 kcal1 plate chole bhature
958 kcal1½ plates chole bhature
1277 kcal2 plates chole bhature

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)
½ plate chole bhature3197.93914
1 plate chole bhature638167927
1½ plates chole bhature9582411841
2 plates chole bhature12773215855

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

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What goes into it

This is a standard home recipe, not one of the diet chart dishes: these are the weights the numbers come from. Your cook's version will differ, so check the oil and the portion.

IngredientAmountCalories (kcal)
Kabuli chana (white chickpeas), USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy 17375630 g113
Onion (Pyaz)20 g10
Tomato30 g6
Ginger (Adrak)2 g1
Garlic (Lehsan)2 g2
Groundnut oil24 g212
Maida (refined wheat flour)80 g281
Curd (Dahi), USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy 17128420 g12
Total638
  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 212 kcal of the 638.
  • Frying oil: this recipe counts 20 g of oil taken up in the frying and 4 g in the cooking. Deep-fried food takes up oil in a way no table measures exactly; at home the real amount depends on how hot the oil is and how long it stays in, so treat it as an estimate.
  • A plate here is a katori of chole and two bhature made from 80 g of maida.

Each ingredient links to its own page, and the thali calorie calculator has this dish, so you can add it to the rest of your plate.

How this was worked out

The page adds up the IFCT and USDA values for every ingredient at the weight of a standard home recipe. 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), except kabuli chana and curd, which use USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy 173756 (raw chickpeas) and 171284 (plain whole-milk yogurt) because the Indian tables don't list them.

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