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Love chole bhature? Keep the chole, swap the bread

Love chole bhature? Keep the chole, swap the bread

Two fried bhature with chole is about 750 kcal, and most of that is the deep-fried bread. Swap the bhature for wheat kulcha or roti and you save over 300 kcal from the bread alone, and keep all the chole.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Chole bhature is a Sunday favourite. The chole — spicy chickpea curry — is full of protein and fibre, so it is basically blameless. The two big fried bhature are where the calories hide. They are maida dough puffed up in hot oil, and that oil is the real cost. Keep the chole, change the bread, and you keep the flavour but drop a big pile of calories.

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