Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 plate rajma chawal

What 1 plate rajma chawal 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 plate rajma chawal is about 287 kcal, with 9.9 g of protein, 49 g of carbohydrate, 7.3 g of fibre and 4.9 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 plate rajma chawal

Rajma chawal: calories from ½ to 2 plates

143 kcal½ plate rajma chawal
287 kcal1 plate rajma chawal
430 kcal1½ plates rajma chawal
574 kcal2 plates rajma chawal

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 rajma chawal1435252.5
1 plate rajma chawal2879.9494.9
1½ plates rajma chawal43015747.4
2 plates rajma chawal57420989.9

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 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)
Rajma (kidney beans)30 g90
Onion (Pyaz)20 g10
Tomato30 g6
Ginger (Adrak)2 g1
Garlic (Lehsan)2 g2
Groundnut oil4 g35
White rice40 g143
Total287
  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 35 kcal of the 287. Without the groundnut oil, 1 plate rajma chawal would come to about 251 kcal.
  • Measure it: the oil is the part of this number you decide, so measure it with a spoon rather than pouring.
  • A plate here is a katori of rajma and a katori of rice (40 g raw).

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How this was worked out

The page adds up the IFCT 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).

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