Servings

Use this guide to judge a sensible serving!

Guidelines to Servings and Portion Sizes

At first glance the procedure to amend a 4 person recipe to serve 2 people would seem to be obvious: simply divide all of the ingredients in two.

Although many recipes follow this rule, it is far from satisfactory. For this reason, we do not provide an automated portion adjustment.

I usually cook for 2 people, but most of the recipes I follow are for 4 people and to adapt them I find the following rough guidelines helpful:

A theoretical recipe for 4, adjusted for 2 people

• Meat ,eggs, fish, potatoes, rice, pasta, bulky vegetables, canned vegetables: halve the quantities
• Onions, garlic, chillies, herbs, spices, seasonings: generally leave as in the original recipe but pay consideration to strong ingredients: the heat from chillies, the pungency of garlic and ginger.
• Sauces, use half of the ingredients and make half the quantity
• Fats and oils for frying: reduce by half, you can always add extra if necessary

Be confident and trust your judgement, unless you are a real novice, your best guess is probably going to be pretty close.

See also

• Portions per person
• Additional help.
• Introduction to discussion pages.
• Interactive weight conversion utility

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