How many calories in naan
A plain naan bread has about 260 kcal, most of it from carbs.
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To burn it off
Naan is a soft, leavened flatbread baked in a tandoor and the thing you tear up to mop the curry. In a British curry house one is often the size of a dinner plate.
A plain one is 260 kcal, with 45 g of carbs and 5 g of fat. Brush it with garlic butter and it's 320, the extra 60 almost all butter.
Peshwari and keema naans are filled and come in higher still. Count them as more than a plain one.
Tips
- 1Share one naan between two instead of one each.
- 2Pick naan or rice with your curry, not both.
- 3Go for a chapati or roti now and then, they're much thinner.
Where it comes from
Naan simply means bread in Persian. It came to South Asia with the Delhi Sultanate, and around 1300 the poet Amir Khusrau described two kinds eaten by nobles, a light thin one and a heavier one baked in the tandoor. Under the Mughals it was a luxury of the court, and only by the 1700s did it reach ordinary people in the big cities.
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Questions
How many calories in a garlic naan?
About 320 kcal for one brushed with garlic butter.
Is naan or rice higher?
Similar. A plain naan is about 260 kcal, around the same as a portion of rice.
How many calories in half a naan?
About 130 kcal for half a plain one.
Is naan higher than pitta bread?
Yes. A pitta is about 160 kcal and a plain naan about 260, mostly because the naan is bigger.
How many calories in a chapati?
About 120 kcal, under half a plain naan. It's thinner and smaller, and usually made without yeast or butter in the dough.
