Cheburek: calorie content of a dish with different fillings

2025 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:50

One of the most popular dishes, which, along with samsa, shawarma, khachapuri, khinkali, etc. belong to Eastern, Central Asian cuisine, has become cheburek. The calorie content of all of them, by the way, is very high, but the taste is worth it. Stalls and cafeterias selling these hearty and inexpensive snacks can be found in any city, crowded place, because they are popular and in considerable demand. They can be conveniently and quickly eaten on the way, which is so important for people who are constantly busy with work. Chebureks, perhaps, have been tried by everyone at least once, because few people can resist a hot appetizing pie with juicy meat or other filling in crispy unleavened dough.

Features of the dish

The only thing that can stop a person who wants to buy a cheburek is the calorie content. Indeed, this pie is not from the category of dietary dishes. Despite the fact that the dough for pasties is yeast-free, and the filling can be low-fat, it will still come out quite high-calorie. The fact is that traditionally the Turkic and Mongolian peoples who invented this dish fried it on animal fat (mutton, as a rule). And now it's being replacedordinary vegetable oil. It should be understood that cheburek literally bathes in hot oil during cooking, because only in this way can you achieve its signature crispy golden crust.

So, the calorie content of fried cheburek is on average 240-270 kcal per 100 grams of the dish, but much depends on the composition and amount of the filling. Sometimes they have 450, and even 600 kcal. A lot, but for a hearty snack, that's it. And if a dilemma arises when you want to eat cheburek, but the diet prohibits everything fatty and fried in oil, you should try to cook it yourself in the oven, brushing the dough with an egg so that it browns. In this way, you can reduce the calorie content of the pie by almost half, because it is due to the vegetable oil that the cheburek is soaked in that it is considered harmful to the figure.

In this article, I would also like to consider several types of chebureks cooked with various fillings, and then determine whether the calorie content of one of the most popular dishes of Central Asian cuisine varies greatly depending on the chosen product for filling the dough.

Cheburek with meat, please

Let's start with the classics and find out what is the calorie content of pasties with meat. The difficulty lies in the fact that the meat of different animals differs in terms of protein and fat content. Given this, we can say that the least calorie chicken cheburek (225-250 kcal). If you use ground beef or lamb, then such pies will containabout 270-300 kcal. Naturally, all of them can differ in size, the amount of minced meat and onions in the appetizer, so the numbers are approximate. Cheburek, whose calorie content is the highest (up to 430 kcal), will contain minced pork inside, which, as a rule, contains more fat than protein.

With cheese filling

Now let's find out the calorie content of cheburek with cheese - the second most popular filling. But you need to understand that there are countless different varieties of this dairy product, and each will have its own calorie content. Also, many mistakenly assume that if the filling is not meat, then the cheburek will come out more modest in terms of calories. However, the same cheese is sometimes more nutritious than meat or poultry. If, for example, we take ordinary Russian hard cheese for cooking, then one ready-made cheburek with it will contain 260 kcal, and popular chebureks with cheese and herbs - at least 310 kcal. Delicious oriental pies are also prepared with melted cheese, and we have to admit that with it you get an insanely tender and unusual cheburek, the calorie content of which is quite acceptable (215 kcal).

Vegetarian toppings

The potato and mushroom versions of this dish are no less nutritious (265 and 275 calories, respectively). But such fillings are often combined with eggs, cheese, rice, then the declared figure can be doubled. Most of all, in terms of calories, the cheburek with cabbage pleases: it surprisingly contains only 165-170 kcal, so you can try it on a diet without a twinge of conscience.

Verdict

SummingAs a result, we can say that pasties are difficult to attribute to he althy food, since when they are fried in oil, all the positive properties of the filling disappear and it becomes heavy for the stomach.

But these pies are so fond of us that few people care about their calorie content. After all, the main thing is to know when to stop, then your favorite, even if not always he althy food will not bring harm and extra pounds.