Calories and protein in a katori of plain rice
Also called chawal, steamed rice, bhaat.
The short answer
1 katori, about 120 g
160 kcal
3 g protein
Fat 0 g · carbs 34 g · fibre 0.5 g · Vegan
Portion: cooked rice, a 150 ml katori filled level. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Rice roughly triples in weight as it cooks, so weighing cooked rice and dividing by three gives you about the raw weight this is based on.
What moves the number
- Riceabout 160 kcal
- Waterabout 0 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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RiceUSDA: Rice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, enriched | 43 g | 160 | 3 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 86 g | 0 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Basmati is calculated as USDA long grain white rice. Both are long grain white rice, but USDA has no separate basmati row in this table.
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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