Sabudana Khichdi Calories: Less Oil and More Oil

By NYUS Inc. · Published 3 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 sabudana khichdi 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 the tapioca root (F015) but no sabudana (tapioca pearl) row, and has no sabudana khichdi, no cooked dish and no cooking oil row, and USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy has no sabudana khichdi record. So this page does not quote a number. It works one plate out line by line: the dry sabudana from a USDA record, the raw potato, groundnuts, cumin seeds and green chilli from named IFCT rows from named rows and the oil from a USDA record, with weights that are our assumptions and the oil shown apart so you can see what it adds, once with 5 g of oil and once with 15 g. They are estimates, shown so you can change the weights to match your pan. For the dry sabudana record by the cup see our sabudana per cup guide, for another breakfast plate worked out the same way our kanda poha guide, for a potato sabzi our aloo sabzi guide, and for the spoon values our ghee, oil and sugar guide.

The short answer

By our working, one plate of sabudana khichdi with a little oil (50 g dry sabudana, 100 g raw potato, 20 g groundnuts, 1 g cumin seeds and 2 g green chilli and 5 g of peanut oil (about 1.1 teaspoons)) is about 400.8 kcal and 6.4 g protein, and one plate with more oil (50 g dry sabudana, 100 g raw potato, 20 g groundnuts, 1 g cumin seeds and 2 g green chilli and 15 g of peanut oil (about 1.1 tablespoons)) is about 489.2 kcal and 6.4 g protein. Scaling the dry sabudana from 40 to 60 g (every other ingredient scaled with it) and the oil from 5 to 15 g the less oil plate runs 329.5 to 560.6 kcal, and with 10 to 20 g of oil the more oil plate runs 373.7 to 604.8 kcal. These are estimates from the weights below, not measured values, not from a sabudana khichdi record and not a shop or restaurant figure. Our reading: the parts of the less oil main case rank the dry sabudana 179.0 kcal, the groundnuts 104.0 kcal, the potato 69.8 kcal, the oil 44.2 kcal, the cumin seeds and green chilli 3.8 kcal; the parts of the more oil main case rank the dry sabudana 179.0 kcal, the oil 132.6 kcal, the groundnuts 104.0 kcal, the potato 69.8 kcal, the cumin seeds and green chilli 3.8 kcal; and the more oil plate is 88.4 kcal above the other because only the oil 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 4 rows from the PDF text on 3 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 raw, so we count raw weight, and the water sabudana takes up when it is soaked, and the weight potato and groundnuts gain or lose in the pan, are not printed in any table; the sabudana is counted dry.

The oil and sabudana (tapioca pearls): USDA SR Legacy, per 100 g

IFCT 2017 Table 1 has no cooking oil row and no sabudana (tapioca pearl) row, so those come from USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy; they are US records. 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

These are the entries in the records' Measures lists, as printed; the other entry is 100 g. This page counts the oil in grams and takes 1 teaspoon as 4.5 g and 1 tablespoon as 13.5 g, the oil record's own measures. The kcal in the last column is ours: the printed kcal per 100 g times the grams, divided by 100, shown to 0.1.

The portion sums: 171410 1 tsp (4.5 g): 884 × 4.5 / 100 = 39.78, so 39.8 kcal; 171410 1 cup (216 g): 884 × 216 / 100 = 1909.44, so 1909.4 kcal; 171410 1 tbsp (13.5 g): 884 × 13.5 / 100 = 119.34, so 119.3 kcal; 169717 1 cup (152 g): 358 × 152 / 100 = 544.16, so 544.2 kcal. By the same arithmetic 5 g of oil is 44.2 kcal and 10 g 88.4 kcal.

Worked example 1: sabudana khichdi with a little oil

Every weight here is our assumption for one plate, counted raw: sabudana (counted dry, before soaking) cooked in oil with potato, groundnuts, cumin seeds and green chilli, counted as one plate. 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 dry sabudana per plate (40, 50, 60 g, with every other ingredient scaled by the same factor and rounded to 0.1 g) and the oil (5, 10, 15 g); the weights in the table above are the 50 g main case.

Worked example 2: sabudana khichdi with more oil

Same method and the same 50 g dry sabudana, 100 g raw potato, 20 g groundnuts, 1 g cumin seeds and 2 g green chilli; the 5 g of oil becomes 15 g. This is our assumed recipe, not a measured plate.

The grid varies the raw dry sabudana per plate (40, 50, 60 g, with every other ingredient scaled by the same factor and rounded to 0.1 g) and the oil (10, 15, 20 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 oil, part by part: the dry sabudana 179.0 kcal, the groundnuts 104.0 kcal, the potato 69.8 kcal, the oil 44.2 kcal, the cumin seeds and green chilli 3.8 kcal. Dry sabudana is 358 kcal per 100 g (USDA 169717, a dry weight with 11 g of water per 100 g), raw potato 69.8 kcal per 100 g (IFCT F006), groundnuts 520.1 kcal per 100 g (IFCT H012) and the oil 884 kcal per 100 g (USDA 171410).
• More oil, part by part: the dry sabudana 179.0 kcal, the oil 132.6 kcal, the groundnuts 104.0 kcal, the potato 69.8 kcal, the cumin seeds and green chilli 3.8 kcal; against the less oil plate the oil is 88.4 kcal higher, and that is the whole difference between the plates.
• Size against oil: on the less oil plate the dry sabudana weight (40 to 60 g) moves it more than the oil (5 to 15 g): 142.7 kcal against 88.4 kcal; on the more oil plate the dry sabudana weight (40 to 60 g) moves it more than the oil (10 to 20 g): 142.7 kcal against 88.4 kcal. Each 5 g of oil is 44.2 kcal.
• Protein: about 6.4 g in either plate (the oil adds none).
• These are estimates: no sabudana khichdi 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 sabudana khichdi

• No record exists for the dish. IFCT 2017 prints raw foods and no cooked dish, and the USDA SR Legacy searches found no sabudana khichdi record (0 results for sabudana khichdi, 0 results for tapioca khichdi, 0 results for sago khichdi, 0 results for khichdi). The SR Legacy tapioca search (27 results) is not a khichdi: its one plain record, tapioca pearl dry, is the ingredient used here.
• The weights are assumptions. No table prints how much of each ingredient or of the oil a plate takes; ours are stated so you can replace them.
• Raw weights. No table prints the weight of the sabudana khichdi after cooking, so the page counts raw weight and cannot give a per 100 g or per plate figure.
• Only the oil in the pan is counted. Oil used any other way, or left in the pan, is not counted unless it is in the oil weight.
• US data. The oil row and the sabudana (tapioca pearls) row are US records; IFCT Table 1 has no oil row.
• Labels are printed, not judged. Calculated and Assumed zero 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 oil by its own weight (weight × figure ÷ 100); our ghee, oil and sugar guide has the spoon values.
• Say how much oil. It is an input this page cannot know; 5 g of oil is 44.2 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.

Where NYUS fits (our app)

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What this page leaves out

• A measured calorie figure for sabudana khichdi 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 oil 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 lemon juice, coconut, sugar, sabudana vada or tikki and sabudana kheer: not counted here; log them from their own rows (the dry sabudana record is in our sabudana per cup guide).
• Other fats: ghee, butter and other oils were not looked up for this page.
• Shop, restaurant and packaged sabudana khichdi: no table prints a weight or oil 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 3 November 2026): F006 Potato, brown skin, big (6 regions, 292 kJ, PDF p. 52); H012 Ground nut (6 regions, 2176 kJ, PDF p. 55); G025 Cumin seeds (6 regions, 1274 kJ, PDF p. 54); G008 Chillies, green - all varieties (6 regions, 177 kJ, PDF p. 53). IFCT 2017 prints raw foods (its few cooked rows are boiled and omelette eggs and roasted vermicelli), has the tapioca root (F015) but no sabudana (tapioca pearl) row, and has no sabudana khichdi, no cooked dish and no cooking oil row (PDF text searched on 3 Nov for sabudana (0 matches), khichdi (0), sago (3 matches, all Manipuri fish names, no food row) and tapioca (the root row F015 only); the rows used are F006 potato (PDF p. 52), H012 groundnut (p. 55), G025 cumin seeds (p. 54) and G008 green chilli (p. 53)).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 171410 (Oil, peanut, salad or cooking): Energy 884 kcal (3700 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 Calculated, carbohydrate by difference no label shown, total sugars Assumed zero (Insignificant amount or not naturally occurring in a food, such as fiber in meat); portions used: 1 tsp (4.5 g); 1 cup (216 g); 1 tbsp (13.5 g) (read 3 November 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy 169717 (Tapioca, pearl, dry): Energy 358 kcal (1500 kJ), protein 0.19 g, total fat 0.02 g, carbohydrate by difference 88.7 g, fibre 0.9 g, total sugars 3.35 g, sodium 1 mg per 100 g; labels as printed: kcal Calculated, carbohydrate by difference Calculated, total sugars Based on another form of the food or similar food; Concentration adjustment; Solids; Retention factors not used; portions used: 1 cup (152 g) (read 3 November 2026).
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy searches run on 3 November 2026 (control 'roll dinner' 11 results): sabudana khichdi 0 results, tapioca khichdi 0 results, sago khichdi 0 results, khichdi 0 results.
• nyus.in, the NYUS landing page, read on 3 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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