Liver Kebab - How Many Calories?

Calories and protein in a serving of liver skewers

A 150 g serving of the reference beef-liver skewers, prepared with oil, garlic and spices, provides 287 kcal and 30.7 g protein. Per 100 g it contains 191 kcal and 9.14 g fat. Flatbread, rice and separate meze served alongside are additional foods.

How much is one skewer, four or ten?

Skewer length and the size of the pieces vary. Remove the metal or wooden skewer and weigh the edible food. If four skewers contain 150 g altogether, the reference calculation is 287 kcal; 200 g gives 383 kcal. The same method works for ten skewers without assigning an invented weight to each one.

Skewers threaded with tail fat cannot be counted as liver alone. The selected recipe uses vegetable oil; lamb liver alternating with tail fat is a different preparation. Count oil within the recipe once, and treat extra oil added at serving separately.

Weighing raw beef liver as a recipe ingredient differs from weighing cooked skewers. Water loss, added oil and discarded pieces change the calculation. The liver sauté example includes vegetables and sauce in the dish weight, so its per-100-g table differs from skewers.

Planning the liver portion and its accompaniments

Eating fewer skewers but more flatbread may not reduce the meal’s energy as much as expected. Decide how much of each you intend to eat. The gram options are calculations rather than a personal diet prescription: 50 g provides 96 kcal and 150 g provides 287 kcal.

The 150 g example contains 9.48 mg iron and 468.49 mg cholesterol. Its protein and iron do not justify a large daily serving. The NHS advises avoiding liver and liver products during pregnancy because of their high vitamin A content.

Source note: Values follow Diyetkolik’s liver-skewer table and recipe description. They are recipe estimates, not a measured cooked yield. Source vitamin A is in IU and was not transferred to the RAE field. Sugars and the ambiguously labelled saturated-fat figure remain unknown.