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Yellow dal vs dal makhani - the quiet gap

Yellow dal vs dal makhani - the quiet gap

A simple home bowl of yellow dal is about 225 calories, while a dhaba dal makhani bowl can cross 350. The same-sized katori swings by over a hundred calories, and most of that gap is butter and cream, not the lentil.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Both bowls look like dal. Both sit in the same steel katori. But one is mostly lentil and water. The other swims in butter and cream. That small difference quietly adds over a hundred calories to your thali. Let's see where they actually come from.

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