How many calories are in butter chicken?
Logged in Kallo on November 1, 2026
Anywhere from about 500 to 900 kcal. The butter and cream in the sauce matter, but so do the rice and bread around it. Here are four real plates, each typed into Kallo the way people describe them.
Restaurant, pilau rice and naan
Butter chicken from an Indian restaurant (butter chicken + pilau rice + butter naan)
Butter chicken from an Indian restaurant (butter chicken + pilau rice + butter naan)
With basmati rice
Butter chicken with plain basmati rice
Butter chicken with plain basmati rice
Half a takeaway portion
Half a portion of takeaway butter chicken with a little rice
Half a portion of takeaway butter chicken with a little rice
Homemade, chicken thigh
Homemade butter chicken (150g chicken thigh + tomato sauce + 1 tablespoon butter + 50ml cream) with 150g cooked rice
Homemade butter chicken (150g chicken thigh + tomato sauce + 1 tablespoon butter + 50ml cream) with 150g cooked rice
What moves the number
At the restaurant, the naan and the pilau rice are more than half of it. The butter and oil across the plate add another 228 kcal.
Where these numbers come from
Each meal above was typed into Kallo once, on November 1, 2026. Kallo split it into ingredients, estimated the grams, and took calories and macros from Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition, USDA FoodData Central, and FAO/INFOODS.
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Type yours the way you would say it, like “butter chicken, half portion, plain rice, no naan”, and Kallo works out the rest.