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    Blow my Calories on Indian Food!

    Posts: 494 Member
    edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    Ok. I have 1300 calories left to blow today. I have been craving Indian Food like a mofo. I am also being lazy and don't feel like cooking. Please reply with your suggestions below.

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    • Posts: 666 Member
      There's a roasted eggplant dish... um, Bharti something? that is fabulous.

      I'm also a fan of vegetable samosas....
    • Posts: 237 Member
      Chicken Saag, Chicken Vindaloo, curry, some pekora, naan, indian spiced tea...great, now I want Indian food too >_<
    • Posts: 979 Member
      I thought you said "blow my colon with Indian food" ... d.amn my dyslexia!!

      Any whoo... Nan bread? rice? am I even close? I hope whatever you eat you enjoy it!!
    • Posts: 563 Member
      Most Indian food can be low calorie, just cook it yourself, go light on the oil and not too much rice or bread with it.
    • Posts: 5 Member
      Chicken tikka masala, saag, naan, aloo gobi.
    • Posts: 489 Member
      Do you want food suggestions as in what to get, or suggestions as to how to quell your craving?

      Assuming you have an Indian restaurant near you and want suggestions on what to order ...Paneer Saag (excuse all spelling errors!) is my fave, but anything with Saag with have lots of spinach at least. I'd go rice instead of naan, since rice is less processed and easier to measure. There's gotta be a large variant between sizes of naan, but a cup of cooked rice is a cup of cooked rice (and you might want to add a tablespoon or so of butter to that). OR...tandoori chicken is just roasted/grilled. There are lots of healthy-ish options. I don't imagine raita to have a lot of calories, since it's close to tzaziki.

      Most grocery stores probably have some kind of frozen Indian food, at least near me, they do. Or pick up a simmering sauce at the grocery and buy chicken and rice. Voila.

      Good luck!
    • Posts: 288 Member
      Don't want to cook ? Not sure sure what to tell you. But, I've taken some Dahl recipes and made them healthier and simplified for the ingredients that I have available. Not difficult to throw together a lentil stew that helps keep me away from the Indian Buffet...
    • Posts: 104 Member
      What about a chicken shashlik that is amazing or maybe chicken tikka with a plain nan
    • Posts: 494 Member
      Yeah total take out. I'm thinking the paneer sang is a good idea. I'm also sort of thinking some lamb vindaloo but I'm pretty sure that's just monstrous on caloric intake.

      Nah, I'm not quelling this one! Today is a give in day.
    • Posts: 296 Member
      Samosas and anything with lamb if you aren't a veggie! Yummy!
    • Posts: 376 Member
      Now I'm just hungry!
    • Posts: 1,001 Member
      If you want indian and cba cooking, get a ready meal from the supermarket and microwave. They usually taste pretty good, and you'll know exactly how many cals are in them! Take away Indian food is a calorie loaded mystery to me...

      oh yeah, plus supermarket portions are smaller and lower cal!
    • Posts: 376 Member
      drat now I am craving Indian food and there is not an Indian restaurant within 150 miles of here.......
    • Posts: 494 Member
      Hah, I'm a total luddite but I don't own a microwave! Old one broke and I just realized I almost never used the thing, and what I did use it for was amazingly bad for me anyhow. Electric Kettle for hot water is faster anyhow.
    • Posts: 1,001 Member
      Hah, I'm a total luddite but I don't own a microwave! Old one broke and I just realized I almost never used the thing, and what I did use it for was amazingly bad for me anyhow. Electric Kettle for hot water is faster anyhow.

      You can oven cook most of them too (:
    • Posts: 494 Member
      Yeah I might go with amy's, but here in the states our supermarket Indian food selection is crap. :(
    • Posts: 484 Member
      mmmhmmm, I love butter chicken!!! any low cal recipes on that? lol prob not!
    • Posts: 1,001 Member
      Yeah I might go with amy's, but here in the states our supermarket Indian food selection is crap. :(

      Aw man, I feel for ya :L

      ours is pretty damn tasty
    • Posts: 316 Member
      Vindaloo, yes! Google Marvelously Mundane potato tofu vindaloo. He has an absolutely terrific recipe. Soooo good!
    • Posts: 719 Member
      fish tikka!!!! I love that stuff! mmmmm.
    • Posts: 1,168 Member
      The tandoori stuff is pretty healthy but with your cals you could spring for one with a sauce and some naan. I don't suppose you're in n cal, went to an organic ndian restaurant in Berkeley with brown rice and a lot less oils used. It was fantastic!
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