Calories and protein in one tortang talong, with and without oil
Also called eggplant omelette.
The short answer
1 piece, about 180 g, normal oil
230 kcal
11 g protein
Fat 17 g · carbs 9.5 g · fibre 4.5 g · With egg
Portion: one eggplant, flattened and fried in egg. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Eggplant soaks up oil in the pan, so frying in a non-stick pan with less oil changes this a lot.
With and without oil
The same 1 piece, changing only the oil it is fried in. Normal is about 10 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 | 150 kcal | 12 g |
| A little | 5 g | 190 kcal | 11 g |
| Normal | 10 g | 230 kcal | 11 g |
| A lot | 19 g | 300 kcal | 10 g |
What moves the number
- Eggabout 110 kcal
- Oil (the oil it is fried in)about 90 kcal
- Eggplantabout 40 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 piece, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EggplantUSDA: Eggplant, raw | 150 g | 40 | 1.5 g |
| EggUSDA: Egg, whole, raw, fresh | 75 g | 110 | 9.5 g |
| SaltUSDA: Salt, table | 1.5 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil it is fried in | 10 g | 90 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Eggplant weight is the raw edible flesh; grilling removes water and the skin is peeled off.
- Oil is the amount taken to stay in the dish after pan frying (estimated); eggplant soaks up oil, so it varies a lot.
- Cooked yield is an estimate of a typical home pot (water evaporated); a weighed batch would replace it.
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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