Is Indian food fattening/high in calories?
The answer is yes, the Indian food that you like is high in fat and calories. Samosas are deep fried curry puffs, both the nature of the cooking process and the structure of the samosa will inevitably make it high in fat due to the retained oil. Most curries served in restaurants are high in fat due to the ingredients used. In India, energy comes from staples such as rice and chapati (unlevened flatbread), lentils and beans…all of which are rich in carbohydrates and are cheap. Curries are not used to provide nutritional energy in the average Indian’s diet as some have suggested. They are traditionally more token foods consumed in small amounts (more like a condiment) with much larger quantities of bland filler such as rice. Curries eaten in Western countries tend to be direct copies or adaptaions of traditional Indian dishes and these are often high in fat, especially the meat dishes. We also tend to eat them in far larger portions than what is traditional. Traditionally in India, fa
