Calories and protein in a katori of baingan bharta, with and without oil
Also called roasted eggplant mash, begun bhorta.
The short answer
1 katori, about 110 g, normal oil
80 kcal
1.5 g protein
Fat 4.5 g · carbs 10 g · fibre 4 g · Vegan
Portion: loosely packed into a 150 ml katori. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Roasted eggplant is light and filling. Like bhindi, most of the variation is the oil.
With and without oil
The same 1 katori, changing only the oil the mash is finished in. Normal is about 4 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 | 45 kcal | 2 g |
| A little | 2 g | 60 kcal | 1.5 g |
| Normal | 4 g | 80 kcal | 1.5 g |
| A lot | 7.5 g | 110 kcal | 1.5 g |
What moves the number
- Oil (the oil the mash is finished in)about 35 kcal
- Eggplantabout 30 kcal
- Onionabout 5 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 katori, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EggplantUSDA: Eggplant, raw | 118 g | 30 | 1 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 16 g | 5 | 0 g |
| TomatoUSDA: Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average | 20 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 1.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| GingerUSDA: Ginger root, raw | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Green chilliUSDA: Peppers, hot chili, green, raw | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Chilli powderUSDA: Spices, pepper, red or cayenne | 0 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil the mash is finished in | 4 g | 35 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Many Bengali kitchens finish bharta in mustard oil. The recipe here uses plain cooking oil, which has about the same energy.
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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