Sev puri calories
A plate of 6 sev puri has about 295 calories, about 50 a piece. Dahi sev puri, with 60 g of curd, is about 335. Fried papdi and sev are most of it: sev alone is about 80 calories per 15 g. A street plate, with however much sev the vendor piles on, runs about 265 to 385.
Sev puri is flat, crisp papdi topped with boiled potato, onion and tomato, sweet and green chutneys and a heap of fine sev. Dahi sev puri adds curd, and papdi chaat in north India is the same idea with more curd and chutney.
The papdi and the sev are both fried, and together they're nearly three quarters of a plate's 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 sev puri?
| Portion | Cals | Protein | Carbs | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 sev puri | 50 | 1 g | 6 g | 3 g |
| 1 plate (6 pieces) | 295 | 5 g | 33 g | 16 g |
| 1 plate of dahi sev puri (with 60 g curd) | 335 | 7 g | 36 g | 18 g |
How does home sev puri compare with outside?
Street sev puri varies with how much sev and chutney the vendor piles on, and some add raw mango or butter.
We found no lab figure for it, so the range below runs from 0.9 to 1.3 times this plate.
| Version | Cals | Fat |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 295 | 16 g |
| Street stall | 265 to 385 | 14 to 21 g |
What changes the calories in sev puri?
- Sev is the most calorie-dense topping: 15 g is about 80 calories.
- Each papdi is about 20 calories before toppings.
- Curd for dahi sev puri adds about 35 calories per 60 g.
- Sweet chutney adds about 20 calories a tablespoon; green chutney adds almost nothing.
How were these numbers worked out?
No standard recipe for sev puri exists in the Indian Nutrient Databank, so Slate assembles a plate of 6 from stated amounts at IFCT 2017 values: 6 papdis, 40 g of boiled potato, 15 g of onion, 10 g of tomato, 2 tablespoons of sweet chutney, coriander and 15 g of sev. The fried parts carry the fat: papdi is valued as maida plus oil at 38.5% fat and sev as besan plus oil at 39.6%, the fat Gupta et al. measured in 2016 in mathri and bhujia from Delhi vendors. No cooked weight is used: the plate is the whole recipe, 295 calories, and one sev puri a sixth of it. No analysed sev puri exists in IFCT 2017, NIN or USDA FNDDS, so there is no cross-check. The stall range, 0.9 to 1.3 times the plate, covers papdi size and the amount of sev. Every dish on Slate is worked out the same way: how Slate counts calories.
| Ingredient | Raw | Values from |
|---|---|---|
| Wheat flour, refined (maida) as 6 papdis, 24 g | 14.8 g | IFCT 2017 A018 |
| Groundnut oil as 6 papdis, 38.5% fat | 9.2 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
| Potato, brown skin, big boiled | 40 g | IFCT 2017 F006 |
| Onion, big | 15 g | IFCT 2017 G017 |
| Tomato, ripe, hybrid | 10 g | IFCT 2017 D075 |
| Tamarind pulp sweet chutney, 2 tablespoons | 4.3 g | IFCT 2017 E064 |
| Jaggery, cane sweet chutney, 2 tablespoons | 8.6 g | IFCT 2017 I001 |
| Coriander leaves green chutney and garnish | 5 g | IFCT 2017 G009 |
| Besan (ground Bengal gram dal) as 15 g sev | 9.1 g | IFCT 2017 B001 |
| Groundnut oil as 15 g sev, 39.6% fat | 5.9 g | IFCT 2017 T005 |
Sources
- ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017. Maida (A018), Bengal gram dal (B001) as besan, potato, onion, tomato, tamarind, jaggery, coriander, oil; values read from github.com/nodef/ifct2017
- 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
- Vijayakumar et al., Indian Nutrient Databank (INDB), Current Developments in Nutrition, 2024. The Art & Science of Cooking recipe ASC281, saunth chutney
- USDA FoodData Central, Yogurt, plain, whole milk (171284). Curd
Questions people ask
How many calories are in 6 sev puri?
About 295 for a plate of 6, and about 335 for dahi sev puri.
How many calories are in 1 sev puri?
About 50 for one piece with its toppings.
How much protein is in sev puri?
About 5 g in a plate of 6, from the papdi, potato and sev.
Which has more calories, sev puri or pani puri?
Sev puri, per plate: about 295 against about 220 for 6 pani puri, because of the sev.