Cheburek: caloric value of the dish with different fillings

One of the most popular dishes, which along with samsa, shaurma, khachapuri, khinkali, etc. belong to the eastern, Central Asian cuisine, became a cheburek. The caloric content of all of them, by the way, is very high, but the taste is worth it. Cases and cafes selling these nourishing and inexpensive snacks can be found in any city, crowded place, because they are popular and in great demand. They can conveniently and quickly grab a bite on the road, which is so important for permanently employed people. Chebureks, perhaps, at least once tried everything, because few people can resist a hot appetizing pie with juicy meat or other filling in a crispy fresh test.

Features of the dish

The only thing that can stop a person who wants to buy a cheburek is calorie. Indeed, this patty is not from the category of dietary dishes. Despite the fact that the dough for cheburek is used without yeast, and the filling can be lean, it will still be 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 is accepted to replace it with ordinary vegetable oil. It should be understood that the cheburek literally bathes in hot oil during cooking, because only in this way it is possible to achieve its proprietary crispy golden crust.

So, the calorie content of roasted cheburek is on the average 240-270 calories per 100 grams of dish, but much depends on the composition and amount of the filling. Sometimes they contain 450, and even 600 calories. Quite a bit, but for a hearty snack the most it. And if there is a dilemma, when you want to eat a cheburek, but the diet prohibits everything fatty and fried in oil, it is worth trying to cook it yourself in the oven, smearing the dough with an egg to make it brown. This way you can reduce the caloric content of the pie almost twice, because it is due to the vegetable oil, which is soaked in a cheburek, it is considered harmful to the figure.

In this article, I would also like to consider several types of chebureks prepared with different fillings, and then determine if the caloric 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 the caloric content of a cheburek is with meat. The difficulty lies in the fact that the meat of different animals varies in terms of protein and fat content. Given this, we can say that the least calories are chicken chicken (225-250 kcal). If you use ground beef or mutton, then these pies will contain about 270-300 calories. Naturally, they all can differ in size, the amount of minced meat and onions in a snack, so the figures are approximate. Cheburek, whose caloric content is the highest (up to 430 kcal), will contain inside the pork mince, which, as a rule, has more fat than protein.

With cheese filling

Now we will find out the caloric content of the cheburek with cheese - the second most popular filling. But you need to understand that there are countless different varieties of this dairy product, and for each caloric content will be its own. Also, many mistakenly suggest that if the filling is not meat, then the cheburek will be more modest in terms of calories. However, the same cheese is sometimes more nutritious than meat or poultry. If, for example, to take the usual Russian hard cheese for cooking, then one ready-made cheburek with it will contain 260 kcal, and popular chebureks with cheese and greens - no less than 310 kcal. Delicious oriental pies are prepared with melted cheese, and it should be acknowledged that with it comes a deliciously delicate and unusual cheburek, the calorie content of which is quite acceptable (215 kcal).

Vegetarian fillings

No less nutritious potato and mushroom varieties of this dish (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 pleases cheburek with cabbage: it is surprisingly only 165-170 calories, so you can try it without hesitation on a diet.

Verdict

Summarizing, we can say that chebureks are difficult to attribute to useful food, because when frying them on oil, all the positive properties of the filling disappear and it becomes severe for the stomach.

But these pies are so fond of us that their caloric content is of little concern to anyone. After all, the main thing is to know the measure, then the beloved, even if not always useful food will not cause harm and extra pounds.