Cabbage-peas sabzi

One serving of Cabbage-peas sabzi — 1 katori — comes to 73 kcal, 3.8 g protein, 7.4 g carbs and 3.1 g fat. Scaled to 100 g it works out to 61 kcal and 3.2 g protein, which makes it not a meaningful protein source on its own for a vegetable item. That single serving is about 4.9% of a 1,500 kcal day and 3.7% of a 2,000 kcal day, so it's more of a filler than a target-hitter on protein without much extra planning.

Walking off Cabbage-peas sabzi takes roughly 1,825 steps, using the rough approximation of 0.04 kcal burned per step (a population-average estimate for a moderate walking pace, not a personalised number). At ₹6 a serving it costs about ₹31.6 for every 20 g of protein it delivers, which is a mid-to-high price for protein compared with dal, eggs or soya chunks. It fits nearly every Indian diet type, including vegetarian, Jain, vegan. It works at lunch and dinner. It's a common tiffin-box item.

If you want variety without changing the macros much, the closest swaps in the vegetable category are Beans thoran / poriyal (with coconut), Bhindi sabzi (jain, no onion), Sweet corn, boiled, Cucumber-tomato salad (no onion) — each keeps a similar role on the plate while shifting the exact protein-to-carb balance a little.