Increasing A Recipe

[sherrardk]

My daughter made some savoury rice at school today - enough for one person - if I want to make it for six people do I just multiply all the ingredients by six or is it more compacted than that?

[tamborine]

1 tea cup of rice = 2 meals

[retrocop]

That's what we do.If a recipe says serves 4 and we are cooking for 6-8 we double all of it and particularly with a rice dish.ie. Risotto the liquid is most important. However if there are spices like chilli to be used in the original recipe then it would be wise not to double that ingredient. :-)

[tamborine]

[tamborine]

Chicken fries better than beef.

[sherrardk]

The original recipe had 1 teaspoon of curry powder - six seems a bit excessive.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd do 3 teaspoons Sher, that should be enough.

[tamborine]

curry powder? No no no! Fried rice is chinese meal with NO curry powder else you lose the ingredients taste.

[sherrardk]

It's not fried rice - it's some sort of savoury rice (I didn't taste it - I have a no-school cooked tasting policy).

[tamborine]

tumeric makes rice yellow

[ethandron]

I would multiply every ingredient by six.
Imagine making it for one. Then making it for one again. And again, till you’ve made it six times. Then tipping all six into a big bowl, it would taste exactly as it would have done following the recipe for one.

[Prudie]

I agree with eth

[ummmm]

Same as Eth...I multiply everything but the amount of people I'm cooking for.

[snags]

''1 tea cup of rice = 2 meals''

Maybe if you're a shrew. Or in prison.

I would also multiply all ingredients by 6.

[retrocop]

I also agree with Eth but would still not multiply the amount of chilli e.g. per person, Imagine 6 scotch bonnets or worse Dorset Nakia. :-(

[gingejbee]

^^^herbs and spices still need to be multiplied by six......if, say, 5gm of chilli for one, then 30gm for six portions.

[sanmac]

I'd also say roughly multiply the major ingredients by 6; however, I never follow a recipe's directions for the amount spices, herbs, etc...I just add to taste.

[spathiphyllum]

Yes! :D (its not more complicated)

[dannyk13]

You could multiply the rice etc by six, but if it is a risotto then your needs to be three times the amount of rice by volume.

[dannyk13]

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