Gobi paratha calories
One home gobi paratha (27 g atta, 33 g cauliflower, 2 teaspoons of oil) has about 180 calories, or about 215 with a teaspoon of butter. Two gobi parathas with curd come to about 420. The cauliflower adds little; the tawa oil is nearly half the total. A dhaba gobi paratha, with butter on top, runs about 215 to 380.
Gobi paratha is atta dough stuffed with grated cauliflower, green chilli, ginger and onion, rolled out and cooked on the tawa with oil or ghee. It's a winter breakfast across Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, eaten with curd, pickle and butter, and it packs well in a tiffin.
The filling is mostly water: in this recipe the cauliflower is about a twentieth of the calories. The atta and the oil on the tawa make up nearly all the rest, so a gobi paratha counts a little under an aloo paratha.
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 gobi paratha?
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 gobi paratha | 180 | 4 g | 19 g | 10 g |
| 2 gobi parathas | 360 | 7 g | 38 g | 19 g |
| 1 gobi paratha, 1 tsp butter (5 g) | 215 | 4 g | 19 g | 14 g |
| 1 gobi paratha, 1 tbsp butter (14 g) | 280 | 4 g | 19 g | 21 g |
| 1 gobi paratha with 100 g curd | 240 | 7 g | 23 g | 13 g |
How does home gobi paratha compare with outside?
At a dhaba, a gobi paratha is often larger, cooked in more ghee or oil and served with a cube of butter melting on top.
No lab figure exists for a dhaba gobi paratha, so the range below assumes one up to 1.4 times this size, with up to half as much oil again and 1 to 2 teaspoons of butter, as on the aloo paratha page.
| Version | Cals | Fat |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 180 | 10 g |
| Dhaba or restaurant, with butter | 215 to 380 | 14 to 28 g |
Calories in gobi paratha as a meal
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 gobi parathas with curd | 420 | 11 g | 42 g | 23 g |
What changes the calories in gobi paratha?
- The oil on the tawa is the biggest variable. Each teaspoon adds about 40 calories to a paratha.
- A teaspoon of butter on top takes one paratha from about 180 to 215 calories, and a tablespoon to 280.
- The filling hardly matters: 50 g more cauliflower is about 10 calories. Squeezing the grated gobi dry removes water, which has no calories.
- A katori of curd on the side (100 g) takes a paratha to about 240, and pickle in oil adds more.
- Made with the same atta and oil, an aloo paratha is about 190 and a paneer paratha about 220.
How were these numbers worked out?
The recipe is the cauliflower paratha in The Art & Science of Cooking (via the Indian Nutrient Databank): 80 g of atta, 100 g of grated cauliflower, 25 g of onion, 5 g of ginger, green chilli and coriander, with 2 tablespoons of oil for 3 parathas, all 27 g of oil counted as eaten. IFCT 2017 supplies the values; the curd in the curd rows is USDA's whole-milk yogurt, because IFCT has no curd. No reliable cooked weight exists for a stuffed paratha, so one paratha is a third of the recipe, 180 calories. The databank's figure for this recipe, 181 calories a paratha, agrees within 1%; no independent analysed gobi paratha exists. The dhaba range follows the aloo paratha page: up to 1.4 times the size, up to 1.5 times the oil and 1 to 2 teaspoons of butter. Every dish on Slate is worked out the same way: how Slate counts calories.
| Ingredient | Raw | Values from |
|---|---|---|
| Wheat flour, atta | 80 g | IFCT 2017 A019 |
| Cauliflower grated | 100 g | IFCT 2017 D036 |
| Onion, big | 25 g | IFCT 2017 G017 |
| Ginger, fresh | 5 g | IFCT 2017 G014 |
| Chillies, green one small chilli | 3.3 g | IFCT 2017 G008 |
| Coriander leaves a few sprigs | 2 g | IFCT 2017 G009 |
| Groundnut oil 2 tablespoons, for the tawa | 27.2 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
| Water 4 tablespoons, to make a soft dough | 60 g | no calories |
Sources
- ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017. Atta (A019), cauliflower (D036), onion (G017), ginger (G014), green chilli (G008), coriander leaves (G009), oil; values read from github.com/nodef/ifct2017
- Vijayakumar et al., Indian Nutrient Databank (INDB), Current Developments in Nutrition, 2024. The Art & Science of Cooking recipe ASC100, cauliflower paratha
- Indian Nutrient Databank, recipe and serving-size files (GitHub). recipes.xlsx and recipes_servingsize.xlsx: the recipe's ingredients in grams and its yield of 3 parathas; INDB.xlsx: its own per-paratha value
- USDA FoodData Central, Yogurt, plain, whole milk (171284). Curd on the side
- USDA FoodData Central, Butter, without salt (173430). Butter on top; 1 tbsp = 14.2 g
- USDA FoodData Central, FNDDS Bread, paratha (2707715). 70 g per paratha, used for the outside size
Questions people ask
How many calories are in 1 gobi paratha?
A homemade gobi paratha made with about 27 g of atta and 2 teaspoons of oil has about 180 calories. Two have about 360.
How many calories are in gobi paratha with butter?
About 215 with a teaspoon of butter, and about 280 with a tablespoon. At a dhaba it can be more, because the paratha is often bigger too.
Which has more calories, gobi paratha or aloo paratha?
The aloo paratha, by a little: about 190 calories against about 180 for a gobi paratha made with the same atta and oil. Cauliflower has fewer calories per gram than potato.
How much protein is in a gobi paratha?
About 4 g. With a 100 g katori of curd it's about 7 g.
How many calories are in 2 gobi parathas with curd?
About 420 calories: 2 parathas at 360 plus a 100 g katori of curd.