Hi all,

I am sure this question has probably been asked here before but i cant seem to find the answer.

My question is how many calories are there in a homemade chicken curry? ('mum's chicken curry' is our usual).

I cook it as the recipe states using fresh tomatoes.

Thanks in advance,

Suzi x

Indeed things like this get asked, myself included...

food calories So going off Lapis good information

1g Carbs = 4 kcal

1g protein = 4 kcal

1g fat = 9kcal

so adding up the ingredients

500g chicken (protein) x 4 = 2000kcal

2 tbs oil - (30g ?) x 9 = 270kcal

spices won't count for much

onions are mostly water and fibre..

tomato pur?e probably worth a few calories..

lets put a rough guess on another 500kcal for the entire curry..

2000+270+500= 2770kcal for the whole dish (roughly guessing)

so if you share that between 2 people thats half of it..

if you share it with 4 thats a quarter of it...

but don't forget to add the calories of rice/naan/chapati/chips etc !

Steve

as discussed before, although chicken is a source of low fat protein, only about 15-20% by weight of chicken meat is protein, surprisingly. So, 500g of chicken would have 500 x 4 x 0.2 kcals, or 400kcals at most. Unfortunately, I don't have my definitive book to hand, which gives all the contents of all raw food (and a few others besides) to hand, but Google should be helpful here.

Suzi

Please keep in mind that we are a home cooking website so we don't have a laboratory in which we can run proper tests on the dishes to provide definitive answers to your question.

It's not the same as buying a ready made dish from the supermarket where the information is provided on the packaging!

The two responses provided are best estimates, and Lapis has a strong scientific background which enables her to make pretty accurate estimates, but they do remain estimates, of course.

Kavey

yes they are only estimates (albeit good ones). All calorie counting is quite dubious, as there is quite a bit of variation between samples of the same foods, what we eat with what, and our age, activity, metabolic rate, etc,

If one gets too involved with calorie counting, maybe one is missing the elephant in the room!