How many calories are in mutton biryani?
A plate of mutton biryani is about 925 kcal. That makes it the heaviest of the three biryanis on this site, and the reason is the meat rather than the rice: mutton curry is 330 against chicken curry at 245.
The plate, as served
Two servings of basmati, a ladle of mutton curry, two teaspoons of ghee through the rice, fried onions on top and a spoon of raita.
Where the calories come from
| Nutrient | Grams | Calories | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protein | 38g | 152 | 17% |
| Carbs | 97g | 388 | 43% |
| Fat | 40g | 360 | 40% |
| Fibre | 5g | counted within carbs | |
The ring is sized by calories, not grams: protein and carbs are 4 kcal a gram, fat is 9. Drawn by grams, fat would look like a sliver of what it actually contributes.
What is on the plate
| Basmati rice, cooked x2A cupped handful, about 150 g cooked | 370 kcal |
| Mutton curryA ladle, about 150 g | 330 kcal |
| Ghee x2One teaspoon, about 5 g | 90 kcal |
| Fried onions (birista)A garnish, about 20 g | 90 kcal |
| RaitaThree tablespoons, about 60 g | 45 kcal |
The same dish, several ways
This is where the calories actually move. Not the ingredient, the cooking.
- Two servings of basmati, a ladle of mutton curry, two teaspoons of ghee through the rice, fried onions on top and a spoon of raita.As served925
- Without the raita880-45
Saves 45, and loses the one cooling thing on the plate.
- A home portion, less rice and less ghee695-230
One serving of rice instead of two, one teaspoon of ghee instead of two.
Where each number comes from
Composition tables list ingredients, not dinners. There is no row anywhere for this plate, so it is built from its parts, and the preparation assumed for each part is written next to it, because that assumption is usually worth more calories than the ingredient.
| Component | Portion and preparation | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Basmati rice, cooked x2 | A cupped handful, about 150 g cookedBoiled in water and drained, no ghee or oil. | 370 |
| Mutton curry | A ladle, about 150 gBone-in mutton or goat cooked down in a masala. Heavier than the chicken curry on this list because the meat is fattier, not because the sauce is. | 330 |
| Ghee x2 | One teaspoon, about 5 gBrushed on a roti or stirred into dal. | 90 |
| Fried onions (birista) | A garnish, about 20 gSliced onion deep fried until dark and crisp. No composition table carries it. Derived from CoFID 13-501, onions fried in sunflower oil, which is 95 kcal per 100 g at 79.9 g water: drying that same solid matter to about 15 per cent water concentrates it to roughly 400, and deep frying adds oil on top, so 450 per 100 g is used here. It is a garnish, and across the whole plausible range it moves a biryani by about 100 kcal. | 90 |
| Raita | Three tablespoons, about 60 gWhole-milk yoghurt with cucumber. | 45 |
| Total | 925 | |
Sources: Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (ICMR-NIN), USDA FoodData Central, Derived, not measured (see the note on the row). Every figure is an estimate with a range around it, and is rounded to the nearest 5 kcal rather than pretending to a precision that does not exist.
Why you will see 575 to 1225 kcal quoted for this
How much rice came on the plate, and how much ghee went through it. The rice is the biggest single line on every version of this dish.
Which is why this page shows the sum instead of asserting a total. Build the plate you actually eat and the number is yours rather than an average of strangers.
Build your own plateCommon questions
- How many calories are in mutton biryani?
- About 925 for a full plate. A home portion with one serving of rice is 695.
- Why is mutton biryani heavier than chicken biryani?
- The meat. A ladle of mutton curry is 330 against 245 for chicken, because mutton is a fattier meat. The rice and the ghee are identical on both plates.
- Does mutton biryani have more protein?
- Yes, 38 g against 33 for the chicken version. It costs 85 kcal to get those extra 5 g, which is a fair trade if protein is what you are short of.
- Which biryani is the lightest?
- The vegetable one at 740, but it is worth knowing what that saves. It is 100 kcal below the mutton and gives you 15 g of protein instead of 38.
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