Calories in Indian dishes

Calories in 1 plate veg biryani

What 1 plate veg biryani 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 veg biryani is about 344 kcal, with 8.5 g of protein, 55 g of carbohydrate, 6.1 g of fibre and 9.3 g of fat. Everything below is worked out from the ingredients, one by one.

1 plate veg biryani

Veg biryani: calories from ½ to 2 plates

172 kcal½ plate veg biryani
344 kcal1 plate veg biryani
515 kcal1½ plates veg biryani
687 kcal2 plates veg biryani

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 veg biryani1724.2284.6
1 plate veg biryani3448.5559.3
1½ plates veg biryani515138314
2 plates veg biryani6871711019

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)
White rice60 g214
Carrot (Gajar)20 g7
Green peas (Matar)20 g16
French beans20 g5
Cauliflower (Phul gobi)20 g5
Onion (Pyaz)30 g14
Groundnut oil8 g71
Curd (Dahi), USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy 17128420 g12
Total344
  • Oil: the groundnut oil is 71 kcal of the 344. Without the groundnut oil, 1 plate veg biryani would come to about 273 kcal.
  • Measure it: the oil is the part of this number you decide, so measure it with a spoon rather than pouring.

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 curd, which uses USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy 171284 (plain whole-milk yogurt) because the Indian tables don't list it.

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