Bhel puri calories
A plate of bhel puri, 25 g of puffed rice with sev, papdi, potato, onion, peanuts and chutneys, has about 265 calories. Half a plate is about 130, and 100 g about 235. Sev is the most calorie-dense part, about 55 calories per 10 g. A street plate, mixed to order, runs about 240 to 370.
Bhel puri is puffed rice tossed with fine sev, crushed papdi, boiled potato, onion, tomato and peanuts, dressed with sweet tamarind chutney and green chutney and finished with lemon and coriander. It's the Mumbai beach snack, and Kolkata's jhal muri and Karnataka's churmuri are close cousins.
Puffed rice is light by volume, so a plate looks bigger than its calories. The fried sev and papdi, and the peanuts, are where most of the fat comes from.
Typical values for a home kitchen, for the portion named next to each number. Other sites often show bigger numbers because they count a bigger serving or a restaurant recipe. Your own katori, roti and oil change the number; Slate adjusts for them.
How many calories are in bhel puri?
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 plate about 112 g | 265 | 6 g | 37 g | 10 g |
| Half a plate about 56 g | 130 | 3 g | 18 g | 5 g |
| 100 g about 100 g | 235 | 5 g | 33 g | 9 g |
How does home bhel puri compare with outside?
Street bhel is mixed to order, and plates vary a lot, especially in how much sev goes on top. Some stalls add raw mango, boiled chana or more peanuts.
No lab has measured street bhel, so the range below runs from 0.9 to 1.4 times this plate.
| Version | Cals | Fat |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 265 | 10 g |
| Beach or street stall | 240 to 370 | 9 to 14 g |
What changes the calories in bhel puri?
- Sev is the most calorie-dense part: 10 g is about 55 calories, so a heavy hand with it adds up.
- Peanuts add about 25 calories per 5 g, and each papdi about 20.
- Sweet chutney adds about 20 calories a tablespoon. Dry bhel without it is a little lighter.
- More onion, tomato, cucumber or raw mango adds volume and very few calories.
How were these numbers worked out?
No standard recipe for bhel puri exists in the Indian Nutrient Databank, so Slate assembles a plate from stated amounts at IFCT 2017 values: 25 g of puffed rice and 5 g of peanuts in the proportions of the databank's open-source bhel, 10 g of sev, 2 papdis, 20 g of boiled potato, onion, tomato, a tablespoon of sweet chutney, coriander and lemon. The fried parts carry the fat: sev is valued as besan plus oil at 39.6% fat and papdi as maida plus oil at 38.5%, the fat Gupta et al. measured in 2016 in bhujia and mathri from Delhi vendors, with 4 g per papdi an assumption. The plate weighs about 112 g with the sev and papdi at fried weight, so it is 265 calories and 235 per 100 g. No analysed bhel puri exists in IFCT 2017, NIN or USDA FNDDS, so there is no cross-check. The stall range, 0.9 to 1.4 times the plate, covers plates with more sev. Every dish on Slate is worked out the same way: how Slate counts calories.
| Ingredient | Raw | Values from |
|---|---|---|
| Puffed rice (murmura) | 25 g | IFCT 2017 A012 |
| Besan (ground Bengal gram dal) as 10 g sev | 6 g | IFCT 2017 B001 |
| Groundnut oil as 10 g sev, 39.6% fat | 4 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
| Wheat flour, refined (maida) as 2 papdis, 8 g | 4.9 g | IFCT 2017 A018 |
| Groundnut oil as 2 papdis, 38.5% fat | 3.1 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
| Potato, brown skin, big boiled | 20 g | IFCT 2017 F006 |
| Onion, big | 15 g | IFCT 2017 G017 |
| Tomato, ripe, hybrid | 15 g | IFCT 2017 D075 |
| Groundnut (peanut) roasted peanuts | 5 g | IFCT 2017 H012 |
| Tamarind pulp sweet chutney, 1 tablespoon | 2.1 g | IFCT 2017 E064 |
| Jaggery, cane sweet chutney, 1 tablespoon | 4.3 g | IFCT 2017 I001 |
| Coriander leaves green chutney and garnish | 5 g | IFCT 2017 G009 |
| Lemon juice | 3 g | IFCT 2017 E033 |
Sources
- ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017. Puffed rice (A012), Bengal gram dal (B001) as besan, maida (A018), potato, onion, tomato, groundnut (H012), tamarind, jaggery, coriander, lemon juice, oil; values read from github.com/nodef/ifct2017
- Vijayakumar et al., Indian Nutrient Databank (INDB), Current Developments in Nutrition, 2024. Open-source recipe OSR114, bhel puri (proportions); The Art & Science of Cooking recipe ASC281, saunth chutney
- Gupta et al., Unhealthy fat in street and snack foods, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2016. Measured fat in bhujia (39.61%) and mathri (38.50%), Delhi urban slum
Questions people ask
How many calories are in 1 plate of bhel puri?
About 265 for a plate with 25 g of puffed rice, 10 g of sev and two papdis.
How many calories are in 100 g of bhel puri?
About 235 for this mix, chutneys included.
How much protein is in bhel puri?
About 6 g in a plate, from the puffed rice, sev and peanuts.
Which has more calories, bhel puri or sev puri?
A plate of sev puri is about 295, a little more than bhel at about 265, because it has more papdi and sev.