Calories and protein in a bowl of arroz caldo, with and without oil
Also called chicken rice porridge, lugaw with chicken.
The short answer
1 bowl, about 450 g, normal oil
330 kcal
27 g protein
Fat 11 g · carbs 29 g · fibre 0.5 g · With meat or fish
Portion: a large bowl with half an egg. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Fried garlic on top adds a little. Most of the bowl is broth.
With and without oil
The same 1 bowl, changing only the oil the garlic and ginger are fried in. Normal is about 5 g in this portion. A little halves the recipe’s fat and a lot doubles it, so in a portion of the same weight a lot comes out a little under double. These are the four levels the app asks about, with the same numbers.
| Oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 290 kcal | 28 g |
| A little | 2.5 g | 310 kcal | 27 g |
| Normal | 5 g | 330 kcal | 27 g |
| A lot | 10 g | 370 kcal | 27 g |
What moves the number
- Chickenabout 120 kcal
- Short grain riceabout 110 kcal
- Oil (the oil the garlic and ginger are fried in)about 45 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 bowl, scaled from the batch recipe in the Homekcal app’s dish table, with normal oil. Water, salt and spices add almost no energy but are listed so the recipe is complete. If your version has more of something, the numbers move with it.
| Ingredient | Weight | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short grain riceUSDA: Rice, white, short-grain, raw, unenriched | 30 g | 110 | 2 g |
| ChickenUSDA: Chicken, broilers or fryers, meat only, raw | 100 g | 120 | 21 g |
| GingerUSDA: Ginger root, raw | 7.5 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 5 g | 5 | 0.5 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 15 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Fish sauceUSDA: Sauce, fish, ready-to-serve | 6.5 g | 0 | 0.5 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 400 g | 0 | 0 g |
| EggUSDA: Egg, whole, raw, fresh | 25 g | 35 | 3 g |
| Spring onionUSDA: Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw | 4 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil the garlic and ginger are fried in | 5 g | 45 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Cooked yield is an estimate of a typical home pot (water evaporated); a weighed batch would replace it.
- Meat weight is edible meat without bone; bone-in pieces on the plate weigh more than the meat they carry.
- Glutinous rice is calculated as USDA short-grain white rice.
- Toppings vary: toasted garlic, egg and calamansi amounts are estimates.
How this was worked out
This is the same dish the Homekcal app logs, from the same table. Each raw ingredient’s weight is multiplied by its per-100 g values in USDA FoodData Central, the batch is added up and divided by the cooked weight it makes. Calories are rounded to the nearest 10 and grams to the nearest gram, because a standard recipe is not your recipe. These are calculated values, not weighed or lab tested meals, and home versions vary a lot.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2026. fdc.nal.usda.gov. Public domain (CC0).
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