Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 samosa

What 1 samosa 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 samosa is about 246 kcal, with 4.1 g of protein, 27 g of carbohydrate, 2.2 g of fibre and 13 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 samosa

Samosa: calories from 1 to 4 samosas

246 kcal1 samosa
492 kcal2 samosas
738 kcal3 samosas
984 kcal4 samosas

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 samosa2464.12713
2 samosas4928.25427
3 samosas738128240
4 samosas9841610953

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)
Maida (refined wheat flour)25 g88
Potato (Alu)50 g35
Green peas (Matar)10 g8
Groundnut oil13 g115
Total246
  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 115 kcal of the 246.
  • Frying oil: this recipe counts 10 g of oil taken up in the frying and 3 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.

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 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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