This was solid! Not super heavy but still satisfying and easy to digest (aside from adding way too much chili flakes & powder). I regret nothing
by ShadowtheKitten2020
This was solid! Not super heavy but still satisfying and easy to digest (aside from adding way too much chili flakes & powder). I regret nothing
by ShadowtheKitten2020
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I freakin’ love Ethiopian food. Which always kinda blows my mind because as a Gen X American, the television raised me to believe that Ethiopians did not eat.
Is the plate very small or is the calories only for the stew?
What’s the recipe for this, it looks amazing!
A tablespoon of oil is ~120 kcal, are you saying that’s the oil on this portion or a much larger helping that you’ve cooked? Otherwise the rest (~100g lentils and 68g rice) is way more than 56 kcal – maybe I’m missing something. 😅
Ain’t no way that’s the proper calorie count, something’s off.
saw a commenter on the recipe (original yield 16 servings) give measurements for 1/5 scale and said it would yield 4 servings – note this is a slightly smaller serving size than the original recipe’s serving size (80%).
original calorie count per serving in the recipe was 432 x 16 for the original pot, divide by 5 for scaled down pot = 1382.
if we divide that pot by 4 we get the new serving cal count = 346.
adding a cup of rice to fill out the large plate and we end up around 550.
the protein macro would end up 17/20 + 4.3 for the rice = nearly 18g.
those are likely to be closer to the actual numbers for this meal, sadly not as magical as the title count. it’s still not bad at all for what looks to be close to one “full” portioned meal out of three for the day, and still fits this sub great!
edit: saw you used little to no oil in another comment to save 376 on the scaled down pot = 1006. with 4 servings that brings each serving of the kik wat = 252. for a plate with a cup of rice = 452. same protein macro count. could definitely eat three squares of this a day and stay under the cal target and get 54g of protein!
This ain’t a big plate buddy…
Lentils are very high in calories I use them in my soups all the time. 100g of lentils (a small handful) is like 120 calories.
You already have 130 calories of rice on the plate. For the entire meal to be 175 calories.. your curry would have to be like 50 calories which is not possible with the ingredients we can see in the meal.
The count on this is very inaccurate and next time try weighing all ingredients individually, writing down the weights them dividing by how many servings. Rather than using the calories off a recipe if you are changing the recipe.
Otherwise you will be greatly overconsuming without realising! This would be more like 400 calories.
It is nice and healthy but it is more cals than that
Looks amazing, I’m trying this out! I love my lentils 🤓
For those telling me the math ain’t mathing, feel free to tell me if I’m doing something wrong here. This is the complete recipe I did:
364 grams total onions (153cal/3.35 protein)
5 clove garlic (25 cal)
1T vegetable oil (120 cal)
1/2c crushed tomato (45cal/2g)
1c / 192 grams lentils (600cal/46g)
About 3-3.5T spice blend, chili flakes, chili powder, cumin, coriander, cloves, garam masala, kasuri methi, paprika (individually this measured out to 95 cal)
1/2t ginger/garlic paste (2cal)
11g curry paste (34 grams)
Also added a slight bit of honey/garlic soy sauce, a T at (40cal)
This all adds up to 1114 calories. The completed dish, tared, weighs 1288g. If I divide calories by weight, x it by my serving of 100g, I get 86.49 cal. Am I doing something incorrectly? Feel free to let me know TIA
*Plus 68g cooked rice