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Dabeli - sweet, buttery, and how heavy?

Dabeli - sweet, buttery, and how heavy?

One dabeli is not as heavy as you may think - real recipe calculators put a single street dabeli around 200-250 kcal. The butter on the pav and the sev on top are the parts you can easily trim to make it lighter.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
dabeli street-food chaat kutchi

Dabeli comes from Kutch in Gujarat. It is a soft pav bun, sliced and stuffed with a sweet-spicy mashed potato mix. Then it gets toasted with butter, topped with sev, peanuts, pomegranate, and chutneys. People call it a heavy snack. But one dabeli is smaller than you think. Let us look at the real number.

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