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Your tadka - one spoon of oil, real calories

Your tadka - one spoon of oil, real calories

A tablespoon of oil in your dal tadka adds about 120 kcal of pure fat. Use half the oil and the aroma stays, but you save about 60 kcal each time you cook.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
tadka oil dal cooking

The tadka is the best part of dal. A little hot oil, some jeera, a pinch of hing, and the kitchen smells like home. But that pour from the bottle is pure fat, and the spoon decides the calories. Most of us never measure it. Let us see what one spoon really adds.

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