Mooli paratha calories
One home mooli paratha (27 g atta, 33 g radish, 2 teaspoons of oil) has about 180 calories, or about 215 with a teaspoon of butter. Two mooli parathas with curd come to about 425. The radish adds little; the tawa oil is nearly half the total. A dhaba mooli paratha, with butter on top, runs about 215 to 380.
Mooli paratha is atta dough stuffed with grated white radish, squeezed dry and mixed with green chilli, coriander and onion, then rolled and cooked on the tawa with oil or ghee. It's a Punjabi winter breakfast, eaten with curd, pickle and butter.
Radish is almost all water, so in this recipe the filling is about a twentieth of the calories. The atta and the oil on the tawa make up nearly all the rest, and a mooli 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 mooli paratha?
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 mooli paratha | 180 | 3 g | 20 g | 10 g |
| 2 mooli parathas | 360 | 6 g | 40 g | 19 g |
| 1 mooli paratha, 1 tsp butter (5 g) | 215 | 3 g | 20 g | 14 g |
| 1 mooli paratha, 1 tbsp butter (14 g) | 285 | 3 g | 20 g | 21 g |
| 1 mooli paratha with 100 g curd | 240 | 7 g | 25 g | 13 g |
How does home mooli paratha compare with outside?
At a dhaba, a mooli 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 mooli 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 mooli paratha as a meal
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 mooli parathas with curd | 425 | 10 g | 45 g | 22 g |
What changes the calories in mooli 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 285.
- The filling hardly matters: 50 g more radish is about 15 calories. Salting and squeezing the mooli 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, a gobi paratha is about 180, an aloo paratha about 190 and a paneer paratha about 220.
How were these numbers worked out?
The recipe is the radish paratha in The Art & Science of Cooking (via the Indian Nutrient Databank): 80 g of atta, 100 g of grated radish, 25 g of onion, green chilli and coriander, with 2 tablespoons of oil for 3 parathas, all 27 g of oil counted as eaten. Values are IFCT 2017's; the curd rows use USDA's whole-milk yogurt, because IFCT has no curd. Radish is nearly all water, so the atta and oil are most of the number. With no reliable cooked weight for a stuffed paratha, one paratha is a third of the recipe, 180 calories. The databank's figure for this recipe, 184 calories a paratha, agrees within 1%; no independent analysed mooli paratha exists. The dhaba range is the aloo paratha page's: 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 |
| Radish, white (mooli) grated | 100 g | IFCT 2017 F010 |
| Onion, big | 25 g | IFCT 2017 G017 |
| 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), radish, white (F010), onion (G017), 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 ASC099, radish 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 mooli paratha?
A homemade mooli paratha made with about 27 g of atta and 2 teaspoons of oil has about 180 calories. Two have about 360.
Which has fewer calories, mooli paratha or aloo paratha?
The mooli paratha, by a little: about 180 calories against about 190 for an aloo paratha made with the same atta and oil. Radish is mostly water.
How many calories are in mooli paratha with butter?
About 215 with a teaspoon of butter, and about 285 with a tablespoon. At a dhaba it can be more, because the paratha is often bigger too.
How much protein is in a mooli paratha?
About 3 g, almost all from the atta. With a 100 g katori of curd it's about 7 g.
How many calories are in 2 mooli parathas with curd?
About 425 calories: 2 parathas at 360 plus a 100 g katori of curd.