We are often asked how many calories are in momos, so we sat down last week with an online nutritional counter and worked out the calories, fat, carbs and protein for Lobsang’s Cheese and Spinach Momos recipe.
Serving size: One momo
- Calories 35.2
- Total Fat .8 g
- Saturated Fat .5 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat .2 g
- Cholesterol 1.9 mg
- Sodium 111.2. mg
- Potassium 27.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 5.2 g
- Dietary Fiber .4 g
- Sugars 4.6 g
- Protein 1.8 g
Serving size: 10 momos
- Calories 352
- Total Fat 8 g
- Saturated Fat 5 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 2 g
- Cholesterol 19 mg
- Sodium 1112 mg
- Potassium 275 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 52 g
- Dietary Fiber 4 g
- Sugars 46 g
- Protein 18 g
The overall calorie count is not too bad – 35 calories per momo – as long as you don’t go wild with your quantities, and if you don’t have any heavy side dishes in the meal. Usually we just have a salad or brussels sprouts with our momos.
But the truth is that we regularly eat about 10 momos at a sitting. You get full quite a while before that, but there’re just so dang good that it’s hard to stop. Some people eat a lot more than that. It isn’t unheard of to eat 20 or more, and of course some perhaps more civilized or restrained people eat less 😉 But for us, a standard serving is about 10 momos.
Also, you need to take into account any pickles or hot sauce (sepen) or soy sauce you eat with your momos, and this had some surprising and disturbing values. The carbs and fat are okay for the amount of dipping sauce you would have for a meal of momos, but we were shocked to see that the sodium count was sky high! There’s the same amount of sodium in just a bit of dipping sauce as for 10 momos! We may have to rethink the Patak’s and soy sauce, though we love them so much!! Or only eat the hot sauce we make ourselves, which will be MUCH lower in sodium.
Serving Size: 1 tablespoon each of Patak’s
Lime Pickle and Kikkoman’s Lite Soy Sauce
- Calories 45
- Total Fat 3 g
- Saturated Fat 0 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0 g
- Cholesterol 0 mg
- Sodium 1135 mg
- Potassium 0 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 3 g
- Dietary Fiber 1 g
- Sugars 0 g
- Protein 1 g
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