Puran Poli Calories: Less Ghee and More Ghee

By NYUS Inc. · Published 5 November 2026

The figures on this page are built from IFCT 2017 Table 1 rows and, where Table 1 has no row, USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy records. No primary table has a puran poli record: IFCT 2017, the Indian Food Composition Tables from ICMR-NIN, prints raw foods (its few cooked rows are boiled and omelette eggs and roasted vermicelli), has a wheat flour (atta) row (A019), a Bengal gram dal row (B001) and a cane jaggery row (I001), and has no puran poli, no cooked flatbread and no ghee energy row (its only ghee row is in Table 12, a table of fatty acid values), and USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy has no puran poli record. So this page does not quote a number. It works one plate out line by line: the chana dal, atta and jaggery from named IFCT rows from named rows and the ghee from a USDA record, with weights that are our assumptions and the ghee shown apart so you can see what it adds, once with 10 g of ghee and once with 20 g. They are estimates, shown so you can change the weights to match your pan. For savoury stuffed flatbreads see our aloo paratha guide and gobi paratha guide, for a sweet made with ghee our gajar halwa guide, and for the spoon values our ghee, oil and sugar guide.

The short answer

By our working, one plate of puran poli with a little ghee (50 g dry Bengal gram dal (chana dal), 60 g wheat flour (atta) and 50 g jaggery and 10 g of ghee) is about 623.7 kcal and 18.0 g protein, and one plate with more ghee (50 g dry Bengal gram dal (chana dal), 60 g wheat flour (atta) and 50 g jaggery and 20 g of ghee) is about 713.7 kcal and 18.0 g protein. Scaling the chana dal from 40 to 60 g (every other ingredient scaled with it) and the ghee from 5 to 15 g the less ghee plate runs 471.8 to 775.3 kcal, and with 15 to 30 g of ghee the more ghee plate runs 561.8 to 910.3 kcal. These are estimates from the weights below, not measured values, not from a puran poli record and not a shop or restaurant figure. Our reading: the parts of the less ghee main case rank the atta 192.2 kcal, the jaggery 176.9 kcal, the chana dal 164.6 kcal, the ghee 90.0 kcal; the parts of the more ghee main case rank the atta 192.2 kcal, the ghee 180.0 kcal, the jaggery 176.9 kcal, the chana dal 164.6 kcal; and the more ghee plate is 90.0 kcal above the other because only the ghee differs.

Table rows used, per 100 g

IFCT 2017 Table 1 prints, per 100 g edible portion, water, protein, ash, total fat, total dietary fibre, insoluble and soluble fibre, carbohydrate and energy in kJ. We read these 3 rows from the PDF text on 5 November 2026, as the mean of the regions shown (PDF pages in the Sources); the kcal is ours (kJ divided by 4.184, to 0.1). IFCT prints no portion weights; every row here is an uncooked food or ingredient, so we count each at its uncooked weight, and the water the dal is boiled in, the water in the dough, the weight the dal loses or gains in cooking down with the jaggery and the weight the polis gain or lose on the tawa are not printed in any table; the dal, jaggery and atta are counted at the weights listed, before cooking.

The ghee: USDA SR Legacy, per 100 g

IFCT 2017 Table 1 has no ghee row, so the ghee comes from USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy; it is a US record (ghee). Energy is USDA's kcal with the kJ beside it; water, protein, total fat and carbohydrate (by difference) are in g, then fibre (g), total sugars (g) and sodium (mg), all per 100 g.

The data-type label on each USDA field, as the record shows it

USDA's record page shows a data-type label beside some fields and none beside others. This table copies what the record shows, read field by field from the nutrient table of the record page; "no label shown" means the record prints no label there, and "not printed" means the record has no row for that field. We do not interpret the labels beyond printing them. IFCT 2017 prints no such labels.

The household portions USDA prints for the USDA records

The ghee record in the SR Legacy dataset prints no household portion (only the per 100 g entry), so this page counts the ghee in grams only and takes no spoon as a number of grams.

By the same arithmetic 5 g of ghee is 45.0 kcal and 10 g 90.0 kcal.

Worked example 1: puran poli with a little ghee

Every weight here is our assumption for one plate, counted raw: dry chana dal (50 g) boiled, mashed and cooked down with jaggery (50 g) into the puran, atta (60 g) kneaded into a dough, the puran sealed inside rounds of dough, rolled out and roasted on a tawa with ghee, counted as one plate of 2 puran polis from the weights before cooking (our assumptions); the ghee is the amount used to roast the polis and put on them, an amount we assume, not the ghee left in a pan. Each IFCT line is the kJ divided by 4.184, times the grams, divided by 100, to 0.1 kcal; each USDA line is the printed kcal per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100; protein is the table's protein per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100. Salt and spice powders are not counted.

The grid varies the raw chana dal per plate (40, 50, 60 g, with every other ingredient scaled by the same factor and rounded to 0.1 g) and the ghee (5, 10, 15 g); the weights in the table above are the 50 g main case.

Worked example 2: puran poli with more ghee

Same method and the same 50 g dry Bengal gram dal (chana dal), 60 g wheat flour (atta) and 50 g jaggery; the 10 g of ghee becomes 20 g. This is our assumed recipe, not a measured plate.

The grid varies the raw chana dal per plate (40, 50, 60 g, with every other ingredient scaled by the same factor and rounded to 0.1 g) and the ghee (15, 20, 30 g); the weights in the table above are the 50 g main case.

The two main cases side by side

These are the single examples used in the short answer; each follows from the tables above and from the weights in the cell.

What stands out in the numbers

• Less ghee, part by part: the atta 192.2 kcal, the jaggery 176.9 kcal, the chana dal 164.6 kcal, the ghee 90.0 kcal. Dry Bengal gram dal is 329.1 kcal per 100 g (IFCT B001), atta 320.3 kcal (IFCT A019), jaggery 353.7 kcal (IFCT I001) and the ghee 900 kcal per 100 g (USDA 171314).
• More ghee, part by part: the atta 192.2 kcal, the ghee 180.0 kcal, the jaggery 176.9 kcal, the chana dal 164.6 kcal; against the less ghee plate the ghee is 90.0 kcal higher, and that is the whole difference between the plates.
• Size against ghee: on the less ghee plate the chana dal weight (40 to 60 g) moves it more than the ghee (5 to 15 g): 213.5 kcal against 90.0 kcal; on the more ghee plate the chana dal weight (40 to 60 g) moves it more than the ghee (15 to 30 g): 213.5 kcal against 135.0 kcal. Each 5 g of ghee is 45.0 kcal.
• Protein: about 18.0 g in either plate (the ghee adds none).
• These are estimates: no puran poli record exists, the weights are ours, and a different weight of any ingredient in the tables above will change them.

Why these are estimates, not your puran poli

• No record exists for the dish. IFCT 2017 prints raw foods and no cooked dish, and the USDA SR Legacy searches found no puran poli record (0 results for puran poli, 0 results for poli, 0 results for holige, 0 results for obbattu, 1 results for ghee). There is no SR Legacy puran poli, poli, holige or obbattu record at all (0 results for each); the dal, atta and jaggery are counted from IFCT rows and the ghee from the one ghee record.
• The weights are assumptions. No table prints how much of each ingredient or of the ghee a plate takes; ours are stated so you can replace them.
• Raw weights. No table prints the weight of the puran poli after cooking, so the page counts raw weight and cannot give a per 100 g or per plate figure.
• Only the ghee in the pan is counted. Ghee used any other way, or left in the pan, is not counted unless it is in the ghee weight.
• US data. The ghee row is a US record; IFCT Table 1 has no ghee row.
• Labels are printed, not judged. "Label claim" and "Taken from another source" are USDA's words on the record; we print them and draw no conclusion from them.

How to log it so the numbers hold

• Log it by parts. Weigh the raw ingredients once for your usual pan, and log the ghee by its own weight (weight × figure ÷ 100); our ghee, oil and sugar guide has the spoon values.
• Say how much ghee. It is an input this page cannot know; 5 g of ghee is 45.0 kcal.
• Say how the pan was divided. The page gives one plate from raw weights; divide the pan's total by the portions you actually made.
• Say what else went in. Anything not in the listed ingredients is not counted.

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What this page leaves out

• A measured calorie figure for puran poli as a dish: no primary record prints one, so every figure here is an estimate from stated weights.
• A calorie target, and any claim about what the ingredients or the ghee do to your body: we have not looked up any for any person, so we give none. If you have a medical condition or are pregnant, ask your doctor or dietitian.
• Other versions and add-ins, such as a coconut or khoya filling, a version with maida (refined wheat flour) in the dough, a version with sugar in place of jaggery, a deep-fried version and a shop or restaurant plate: not counted here; log them from their own rows (savoury stuffed flatbreads are in our aloo paratha guide and gobi paratha guide, a sweet made with ghee in our gajar halwa guide). IFCT 2017 prints ghee only in Table 12, a table of fatty acid values, and has no ghee row in Table 1, so the energy of the ghee comes from USDA.
• Other fats: butter and cooking oils were not looked up for this page; ghee is counted from the one SR Legacy record only.
• Shop, restaurant and packaged puran poli: no table prints a weight or ghee use, so we give no such figure; read the pack for packaged ones.
• Per 100 g and per plate figures: no table prints a cooked weight, so none is given here.
• Nutrients beyond energy, water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fibre, total sugars and sodium: not covered here.

Sources

• ICMR-NIN, Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017), Table 1, per 100 g edible portion, mean of the regions shown (read from the PDF text 5 November 2026): B001 Bengal gram, dal (6 regions, 1377 kJ, PDF p. 42); A019 Wheat flour, atta (6 regions, 1340 kJ, PDF p. 42); I001 Jaggery, cane (6 regions, 1480 kJ, PDF p. 56). IFCT 2017 prints raw foods (its few cooked rows are boiled and omelette eggs and roasted vermicelli), has a wheat flour (atta) row (A019), a Bengal gram dal row (B001) and a cane jaggery row (I001), and has no puran poli, no cooked flatbread and no ghee energy row (its only ghee row is in Table 12, a table of fatty acid values) (PDF text searched on 5 Nov for puran poli, puran, poli, holige, obbattu, bobbatlu, vedmi, fritter, paratha and roti (0 matches each) and for ghee (3 matches: one in the preface and two on the pages of Table 12, titled Fatty acid profile of edible oils and fats, which prints fatty acid values, not a Table 1 energy value; no ghee row in Table 1); the rows used are B001 Bengal gram dal (PDF p. 42), A019 wheat flour, atta (p. 42) and I001 jaggery, cane (p. 56)).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171314 (Butter, Clarified butter (ghee)): Energy 900 kcal (3766 kJ), protein 0 g, total fat 100 g, carbohydrate by difference 0 g, fibre 0 g, total sugars 0 g, sodium 0 mg per 100 g; labels as printed: kcal Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), carbohydrate by difference Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), total sugars Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), fibre Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), kJ Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), water Taken from another source--other tables of food composition, protein Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), fat Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI), sodium Label claim (back calculated from label by NDL staff; Calculated from label claim/serving (g or %RDI); portions used: none (only per 100 g listed) (read 5 November 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy searches run on 5 November 2026 (control 'roll dinner' 11 results): puran poli 0 results, poli 0 results, holige 0 results, obbattu 0 results, ghee 1 results.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 5 November 2026 for the app statements in the NYUS section and the CTA.

The ingredient weights, the scaling, the kJ to kcal conversions, the line values, the sums, the grids, the portion kcal, the rounding, the comparisons and every sentence starting "Our reading" are NYUS's own assumptions, arithmetic or opinion, not from USDA or IFCT. The totals add the rounded line values, so a total can differ from the unrounded sum by a rounding step. The IFCT values are the means printed in IFCT 2017 Table 1; the USDA values, data-type labels and Measures-list portions are exactly as shown on the USDA record page. The names in the first column are the tables' own names.

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