Calories and protein in a bowl of red lentil soup, with and without olive oil
Also called shorbat adas, mercimek çorbası.
The short answer
1 bowl, about 300 g, normal olive oil
240 kcal
12 g protein
Fat 7 g · carbs 34 g · fibre 6 g · Vegan
Portion: a large soup bowl. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Close cousin of masoor dal, with more water. A squeeze of lemon adds nothing worth counting.
With and without olive oil
The same 1 bowl, changing only the olive oil the onions start in. Normal is about 6 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.
| Olive oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 190 kcal | 12 g |
| A little | 3 g | 210 kcal | 12 g |
| Normal | 6 g | 240 kcal | 12 g |
| A lot | 11 g | 280 kcal | 11 g |
What moves the number
- Masoor dalabout 170 kcal
- Olive oil (the olive oil the onions start in)about 50 kcal
- Onionabout 10 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 olive 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masoor dalUSDA: Lentils, pink or red, raw | 46 g | 170 | 11 g |
| OnionUSDA: Onions, raw | 23 g | 10 | 0.5 g |
| CarrotUSDA: Carrots, raw | 18 g | 10 | 0 g |
| CuminUSDA: Spices, cumin seed | 1 g | 5 | 0 g |
| Lemon juiceUSDA: Lemon juice, raw | 4.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 277 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 2 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Olive oilUSDA: Oil, olive, salad or cookingThe olive oil the onions start in | 6 g | 50 | 0 g |
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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