Samosa calories and macros

One medium samosa (about 65 g) has roughly 155 calories, with about 3.4 g protein, 19 g carbohydrate, and 7.6 g fat. A samosa is a spiced potato and pea filling in a refined-flour (maida) pastry, deep fried, and the frying is the whole calorie story. The filling itself is cheap: boiled potato, peas, and spices are mostly carbohydrate and water. The maida shell and the oil it soaks up during frying carry most of the fat, which is why nearly half of a samosa's calories come from fat. Size swings the number a lot: a small tea-stall samosa is near 120 calories, a medium is about 155, and a large restaurant or chaat samosa crosses 250. Turning it into chaat, with chole, yogurt, and chutneys, easily doubles the plate. The filling matters less than most people think; the pastry and the fryer are what you are really counting.