Calories and protein in six steamed pork dumplings, with and without sesame oil
Also called jiaozi, pork and cabbage dumplings.
The short answer
6 dumplings, about 174 g, normal sesame oil
370 kcal
16 g protein
Fat 15 g · carbs 41 g · fibre 2.5 g · With meat or fish
Portion: six medium dumplings. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Pan fried potstickers add the oil from the pan on top of this. Dipping sauce is small unless it has chilli oil.
With and without sesame oil
The same 6 dumplings, changing only the sesame oil in the filling. Normal is about 2 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.
| Sesame oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 360 kcal | 16 g |
| A little | 1 g | 360 kcal | 16 g |
| Normal | 2 g | 370 kcal | 16 g |
| A lot | 4 g | 380 kcal | 16 g |
What moves the number
- Maidaabout 180 kcal
- Pork minceabout 160 kcal
- Sesame oil (the sesame oil in the filling)about 20 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 6 dumplings, scaled from the batch recipe in the Homekcal app’s dish table, with normal sesame 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MaidaUSDA: Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, unbleached | 50 g | 180 | 5 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 25 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Pork minceUSDA: Pork, fresh, ground, raw | 60 g | 160 | 10 g |
| CabbageUSDA: Cabbage, raw | 30 g | 10 | 0.5 g |
| Spring onionUSDA: Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw | 6 g | 0 | 0 g |
| GingerUSDA: Ginger root, raw | 1.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Soy sauceUSDA: Soy sauce made from soy and wheat (shoyu) | 3 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 0.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Sesame oilUSDA: Oil, sesame, salad or cookingThe sesame oil in the filling | 2 g | 20 | 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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