Calories and protein in a katori of chicken curry, with and without oil
Also called murgh curry, home style chicken curry.
The short answer
1 katori with pieces, about 150 g, normal oil
160 kcal
17 g protein
Fat 8 g · carbs 6 g · fibre 1.5 g · With meat or fish
Portion: boneless pieces with gravy. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Bone-in pieces look bigger than they are. If your curry has bones, a katori holds less meat than the boneless version counted here.
With and without oil
The same 1 katori with pieces, changing only the oil the onion masala is 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 | 120 kcal | 17 g |
| A little | 2.5 g | 140 kcal | 17 g |
| Normal | 5 g | 160 kcal | 17 g |
| A lot | 9.5 g | 200 kcal | 16 g |
What moves the number
- Chickenabout 85 kcal
- Oil (the oil the onion masala is fried in)about 45 kcal
- Onionabout 10 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 katori with pieces, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChickenUSDA: Chicken, broilers or fryers, meat only, raw | 71 g | 85 | 15 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 29 g | 10 | 0.5 g |
| TomatoUSDA: Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average | 21 g | 5 | 0 g |
| YogurtUSDA: Yogurt, plain, whole milk | 7 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GingerUSDA: Ginger root, raw | 1.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 1.5 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Green chilliUSDA: Peppers, hot chili, green, raw | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| TurmericUSDA: Spices, turmeric, ground | 0.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Chilli powderUSDA: Spices, pepper, red or cayenne | 0.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Coriander powderUSDA: Spices, coriander seed | 1 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Garam masalaUSDA: Spices, curry powder | 0.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 43 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil the onion masala is 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.
- Meat weight is edible meat without bone; bone-in pieces on the plate weigh more than the meat they carry.
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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