Topic: How many calories in a home made BIR?

[meggeth]

I was wondering about this. Any guesses? Let's say a good portion of curry with Pilau rice? At least 1000? Probably more....

[George]

I was wondering about this. Any guesses? Let's say a good portion of curry with Pilau rice? At least 1000? Probably more....

One tablespoon of vegetable oil is about 120 calories, and I reckon a single dish of BIR curry probably contains about 3 tbls from the base sauce input and another 3 tbls in the final stage cooking. So that's 6 x 120 = 720 calories from the oil alone.

[solarsplace]

Hi

Full credit to Axe / Malc for these calculations:

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So to business, the calorie figures for the Zaal base as per your recent topic are as follows:

Total quantity       Kcal - 3510.075
Per portion (16)    Kcal - 219.3797

So a single portion (350ml) is 220 Kcal give or take.

I haven't calculated any dishes against this yet but as a basic curry we're looking at:

45ml (1 chef spoon) Veg Oil - 405
15ml Garlic & Ginger - 12
100ml (heaped chef) pre cooked onion & pepper - 164
30ml Spice Mix - 70
30 Tomato Puree - 5
350ml Base - 220
200g Portion precook chicken - 342

Total calories = 1218 Kcal

A bit of an eye opener wouldn't you say!

Cheers

[meggeth]

And that's without some nice pilau, or a nan!

Maybe still less than a big mac meal with fries and milkshake, I'll tell myself that to appease my conscience   

[colin grigson]

I've always reckoned on 1500 kcals for a good portion of curry ( not the ones with added cream ) , pilau rice and a couple of chapatis or a naan ... add that to a couple of decent beers and you're getting well towards your RDA in one meal .. great .. only cook once a day   

[wasp-598]

I have been using Julian Curry to go base, and per 300ml base it has 2 Table spoons of vegetable oil so it's

Per 100ml = 829kcal   got off a bottle

829 / 100ml = 8.29 per ml

8.29 * 30ml = 248.7 cal

30ml is equal to 2 Table Spoons

So his base sauce has 249 calories in oil.

It is more as it's hard to count the onions and other stuff

The garlic and ginger has a small amount of oil too



I got this from the internet


29 calories in 1 small raw onion
44-46 calories in 1 medium size onion (2?" diameter)
63 calories in 1 large onion
64-67 calories in 1 cup of chopped onion

I only use 20ml oil when I start my curry

[sollyhouse]

45ml (1 chef spoon) Veg Oil - 405

Don't know much about oil, but its clear to see that the oil accounts of nearly a 1/3 of the total calories, is there no substitute for this?

[curryhell]

45ml (1 chef spoon) Veg Oil - 405

Don't know much about oil, but its clear to see that the oil accounts of nearly a 1/3 of the total calories, is there no substitute for this?

If you want BIR tasting curry, unfortunately NO.  It's the price you have to pay