Jeera rice calories
A 200 ml katori of jeera rice has about 185 calories, against about 160 for plain rice. A plate from 80 g of raw rice is about 375. Oil or ghee is the only real difference from plain rice, about 40 to 45 calories a teaspoon. A restaurant plate, bigger, with more ghee, runs about 375 to 680.
Jeera rice is rice cooked with cumin seeds fried in oil or ghee, sometimes with a little onion. It's the standard rice on north Indian restaurant menus, served with dal fry, dal makhani and paneer dishes.
It's plain rice with a tempering, so the oil or ghee is the only real difference from steamed rice. In this recipe it's about a fifth of the calories.
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 jeera rice?
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 katori (150 ml) about 101 g | 140 | 2 g | 24 g | 4 g |
| 1 katori (200 ml) about 134 g | 185 | 3 g | 32 g | 5 g |
| 1 katori (250 ml) about 168 g | 230 | 4 g | 40 g | 6 g |
| 1 plate (80 g raw rice) about 270 g | 375 | 7 g | 64 g | 10 g |
| 1 plate made with ghee, plus 1 tsp about 270 g | 420 | 7 g | 64 g | 15 g |
| 100 g about 100 g | 140 | 2 g | 24 g | 4 g |
How does home jeera rice compare with outside?
Restaurant jeera rice is usually made with ghee rather than oil, often with more of it, and a restaurant plate can be bigger than a home one.
No lab has measured it, so the range below allows a plate up to 1.5 times this one, with up to twice the fat.
| Version | Cals | Fat |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 375 | 10 g |
| Restaurant | 375 to 680 | 10 to 28 g |
What changes the calories in jeera rice?
- Oil or ghee is the only real difference from plain rice. Each teaspoon adds about 40 to 45 calories to the pot.
- A heaped katori holds more than a level one.
- Basmati and everyday rice are within a few percent of each other per gram.
- Ghee rice and peas pulao add more fat or vegetables: see pulao.
How were these numbers worked out?
The recipe is the cumin pulao in Basic Food Preparation (via the Indian Nutrient Databank): 80 g of rice with half a teaspoon of cumin, 20 g of onion and 2 teaspoons of oil, cooked in 160 ml of water, the oil counted as eaten, at IFCT 2017 values with the rice as parboiled, as the databank maps it. The ingredients added together weigh about 270 g, which matches the rice at 2.98 times its raw weight plus the onion, cumin and oil, so the plate is 375 calories and the pot 140 per 100 g; a katori uses the plain rice page's 0.67 g per ml, so a 200 ml katori is 185. No analysed jeera rice exists in IFCT 2017, NIN or USDA FNDDS, so there is no cross-check. No restaurant jeera rice has been analysed either; the range assumes a plate up to 1.5 times as big with up to twice the oil or ghee. Every dish on Slate is worked out the same way: how Slate counts calories.
| Ingredient | Raw | Values from |
|---|---|---|
| Rice, parboiled, milled | 80 g | IFCT 2017 A014 |
| Water Twice the rice by volume, taken up in cooking | 160 g | no calories |
| Onion, big | 20 g | IFCT 2017 G017 |
| Cumin seeds half a teaspoon | 1 g | IFCT 2017 G025 |
| Groundnut oil 2 teaspoons | 9 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
Sources
- ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017. Rice parboiled (A014), onion, cumin, oil, ghee; values read from github.com/nodef/ifct2017
- Vijayakumar et al., Indian Nutrient Databank (INDB), Current Developments in Nutrition, 2024. Basic Food Preparation recipe BFP134, cumin pulao
- USDA FoodData Central, Rice, white, long-grain, regular, enriched, cooked (168878). 158 g per cup, for katori volumes
Questions people ask
How many calories are in 1 katori of jeera rice?
About 185 in a 200 ml katori and about 140 in a 150 ml one.
How many calories are in 100 g of jeera rice?
About 140.
How many calories are in jeera rice and dal fry?
A 200 ml katori of jeera rice is about 185, and a 200 ml katori of dal fry about 180.
How much protein is in jeera rice?
About 3 g in a 200 ml katori. Dal or curd with it adds more.