Calories and protein in a cup of rice and peas
Also called Jamaican rice and peas, rice and beans.
The short answer
1 cup, about 190 g
350 kcal
8.5 g protein
Fat 13 g · carbs 50 g · fibre 3.5 g · Vegan
Portion: cooked. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
The fat here comes from the coconut milk, which is counted as an ingredient rather than an oil level.
What moves the number
- Riceabout 170 kcal
- Coconut milkabout 120 kcal
- Rajmaabout 60 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 cup, 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 | 46 g | 170 | 3.5 g |
| RajmaUSDA: Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, raw | 18 g | 60 | 4 g |
| Coconut milkUSDA: Nuts, coconut milk, canned (liquid expressed from grated meat and water) | 61 g | 120 | 1 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 76 g | 0 | 0 g |
| Spring onionUSDA: Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw | 4.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Cooked yield is an estimate of a typical home pot (water evaporated); a weighed batch would replace it.
- Kidney beans are weighed dry; canned beans would be weighed drained.
- Thyme, allspice and scotch bonnet are left out (negligible energy).
- Canned coconut milk varies a lot in fat between brands.
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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