Samosa calories: one piece, two pieces, homemade or street
"Samosa calories" has no single answer, because a samosa is not one size. The ForgeFitWithSidd chart lists a large 90 g samosa, and every other size on this page is scaled from that same row — so the numbers here match what you would log in the app.
Find the size closest to the one in front of you, then look at the last table for what you could have eaten instead for fewer calories.
The short answer
One large samosa (90 g) is about 260 calories, with 4 g protein, 30 g carbs and 14 g fat. Two of them is 520 — most of a light lunch, from a snack.
A homemade samosa rolled from half that dough is about 144 calories, and a tea-time mini is closer to 87. The gap between those two numbers is the whole reason samosa charts disagree with each other.
Calories per samosa, by size
All scaled from the chart's 90 g samosa. Weigh one from your kitchen and pick the closest line.
| Serving | How it was measured | kcal | P (g) | C (g) | F (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 mini samosa | about 30 g, scaled from the chart's 90 g samosa | 87 | 1.3 | 10 | 4.7 |
| 1 homemade samosa | about 50 g, scaled from the chart's 90 g samosa | 144 | 2.2 | 16.7 | 7.8 |
| 1 medium samosa | about 60 g, scaled from the chart's 90 g samosa | 173 | 2.7 | 20 | 9.3 |
| 1 large samosa | 1 piece (90 g) | 260 | 4 | 30 | 14 |
| 2 large samosas | two 90 g pieces | 520 | 8 | 60 | 28 |
| 4 samosas | four 90 g pieces | 1040 | 16 | 120 | 56 |
Why size and the fryer decide it
The filling is cheap. The pastry and the oil are not.
- Pastry is the calorie source. A samosa is mostly refined flour and fat, so a bigger samosa is not proportionally more filling — it is proportionally more pastry.
- Two pieces is the normal serving, not one. Street and cafe portions are generous, and nobody eats a single samosa.
- The oil in the fryer. Deep frying is why a 90 g samosa carries 14 g of fat; the same filling baked at home is a different number.
- Chutney and the second snack. Sweet chutney, a second fried item and a sugary drink arrive together and rarely get logged.
If samosa is the meal, log the size you actually ate rather than “one samosa”. A 30 g mini and a 90 g street samosa are three times apart.
The rest of the fryer and the chaat counter
Same chart, so the comparison is honest rather than hopeful.
| Serving | How it was measured | kcal | P (g) | C (g) | F (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vada pav | 1 vada pav (110 g) | 319 | 7.2 | 41.8 | 14.3 |
| 1 dabeli | 1 dabeli (120 g) | 360 | 7.2 | 52.8 | 13.2 |
| 1 moong dal kachori | 1 kachori (60 g) | 252 | 5.4 | 24 | 15 |
| 4 vegetable pakoras | 4 pieces (80 g) | 224 | 4.8 | 19.2 | 14.4 |
| 1 medu vada | 1 vada (60 g) | 162 | 4.8 | 14.4 | 9.6 |
| 1 aloo tikki | 1 tikki (70 g) | 154 | 2.8 | 19.6 | 7.4 |
| 2 mathris | 2 pieces (30 g) | 147 | 2.4 | 15.6 | 8.4 |
| 6 pani puris | 6 puris with filling (150 g) | 225 | 5.3 | 40.5 | 5.3 |
| 1 plate bhel puri | 1 plate (150 g) | 285 | 6 | 45 | 9.8 |
| 4 steamed momos | 4 pieces (120 g) | 210 | 8.4 | 28.8 | 6.6 |
Lower-calorie things to order instead
From the chart's lighter picks — the same tea-time, a smaller bill.
| Serving | How it was measured | kcal | P (g) | C (g) | F (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 steamed dhoklas | 2 pieces (80 g) | 104 | 4.8 | 14.4 | 3.2 |
| 30 g roasted chana | 1 small serve (30 g) | 108 | 6 | 16.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 roasted papad | 1 papad (15 g) | 48 | 3.4 | 8.6 | 0 |
| 2 plain wheat khakhras | 2 khakhras (30 g) | 120 | 3.3 | 19.5 | 3 |
None of these is "healthy" on its own merit and none is a reason to skip the samosa forever. The point is that a 260-calorie samosa and a 104-calorie plate of steamed dhokla are both a tea-time — and the difference, times four tea-times a week, is the difference between stalling and not.
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The two full charts
Staples, dals, dairy, cooked dishes and cooking fats are in the Indian food calories chart. Samosa, pakora, pani puri, vada pav, namkeen and mithai are in the separate Indian snacks calories chart.
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