Chinese-style chicken calories: sauce and portion size

Chinese Style Chicken

209 g

Calculation basis: Diyetkolik starch-coated chicken with mushroom, carrot, green pepper and soy sauce.209g222.46kcal calculated recipe, not all takeaway chicken. Source ingredient lists skin-on raw breast, no invented boneless/skinless change.

Calculated from the 100 g values. — means unknown, not zero. ~ indicates an estimated serving weight.

222kcal

Carbohydrate15.8 g 28%

Protein24.1 g 43%

Fat7.2 g 29%

Chinese Style Chicken Nutrition Values

Nutrients	100 g	1 209 g weighed amount
Calories(kcal)	106	222
Carbohydrate (g)	7.58	15.84
Protein (g)	11.55	24.14
Fat (g)	3.46	7.22
Fiber (g)	0.92	1.91
Cholesterol (mg)	28.49	59.54
Sodium (mg)	122.92	256.9
Potassium (mg)	339.92	710.44
Calcium (mg)	16.16	33.77
Iron (mg)	0.71	1.48
Vitamin C (mg)	2.42	5.06

Values are calculated from a 100 g basis. The product, recipe and serving amount can change the result. See the food-specific notes below for the reference used.

Chinese-style chicken: recipe and portions

Counting Chinese-style chicken as plain chicken leaves out the starch coating, sauce and oil. The mushroom, carrot and green-pepper recipe used here provides approximately 222 kcal and 24.14 g protein per 209 g portion. Rice or noodles served alongside are additional.

Which chicken dish does the table describe?

Chicken strips are coated in starch, cooked in olive oil and combined with vegetables and soy sauce. The ingredient list specifies skin-on chicken breast. Skinless breast, thigh meat, a honey sauce or a thick batter produces a different dish. Sweet-and-sour takeaway chicken and chicken fingers therefore need their own recipe or product figures.

Dry starch in the coating is different from wheat flour; its weight cannot represent the whole dish. Carrot is also included in the cooked mixture, so raw carrot values alone cannot describe the chicken-and-vegetable meal.

Weigh the finished dish

A 150 g serving provides 160 kcal and 17.33 g protein; 100 g provides 106 kcal and 11.55 g protein. Include the vegetables and sauce you eat in the weighed amount. A palm-sized piece of chicken is not equivalent to a 209 g serving of the mixed dish, and counting strips or spoonfuls does not establish a reliable weight.

Rice and extra soy sauce

Weighing rice separately makes the meal total easier to assess. The chicken dish supplies protein, while the contribution of rice depends on its portion and preparation, including added oil. Soy sauce also varies in salt content. Sauce poured on at the table is extra to the quantity already used in the recipe; record only what you actually add and eat.

For buttered rice, add a separate calculation using the cooked rice weight served alongside. Entering the combined chicken-and-rice weight as chicken alone would give the wrong total.

Source and recipe limits

The reference is Diyetkolik’s starch-coated chicken recipe, using its 209 g portion estimate. Figures describe that prepared recipe rather than every takeaway or home version. The source does not state spoon weights or the final cooked yield. Total sugars and saturated fat with ambiguous units remain unknown; vitamin A in IU has not been relabelled as RAE.