I'll be making chicken 'n rice for my wife's office party. Be lots of
other stuff there, but I'm trying to figure how much rice per serving.
I'm thinking 1/2 to 3/4 cooked rice per person. Input??? Also, I
usually use 1 3/4 cup fluid per cup of rice (Jasmine) and it works
great. Can I just multiply by "x", or do I need to make adjustments to
the fluid/rice ratio?

Thanks in advance.
Bubba

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You wanna measure, or you wanna cook?

>Bubba asks:
>
>I'll be making chicken 'n rice for my wife's office party. Be lots of
>other stuff there, but I'm trying to figure how much rice per serving.
>I'm thinking 1/2 to 3/4 cooked rice per person. Input??? Also, I
>usually use 1 3/4 cup fluid per cup of rice (Jasmine) and it works
>great. Can I just multiply by "x", or do I need to make adjustments to
>the fluid/rice ratio?
>
>You wanna measure, or you wanna cook?

Without knowing what other foods will be served and how many guests it's
difficult to say... with other starchy foods available, ie. potato salad,
macaroni salad, and other pasta dishes, even sandwiches, a lot of folks may not
touch the rice... but rice is cheap, so if you follow your Sig line you'll cook
extra, use enough rice to at least balance the quantity of chicken you'll
prepare... you don't mention how much chicken either, or even a hint of what
chicken and rice recipe. Need more info.


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Bubba wrote:
> I'll be making chicken 'n rice for my wife's office party. Be lots of
> other stuff there, but I'm trying to figure how much rice per serving.
> I'm thinking 1/2 to 3/4 cooked rice per person. Input??? Also, I
> usually use 1 3/4 cup fluid per cup of rice (Jasmine) and it works
> great. Can I just multiply by "x", or do I need to make adjustments
> to the fluid/rice ratio?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Bubba

I'm not sure about portions per person since you aren't specific as to the
recipe, what else will be served, etc. But as a general rule double the
liquid, double the rice. I've never had any problems with doing that.

Jill

1/2 cup of uncooked rice yields about one full cup. If there's other
food there, you can presume people will take about a scant 1/2 cup
maybe less. The rice to liquid ration for a pilaf is always 1 to 2.
One cup rice, two cups liquid. 2 cups rice, 4 cups liquid. Bigger
amounts than that I may reduce the water slightly. Obviously for a
softer rice you need more liquid.

Hah....I just noticed you sig. ;-)

On 08 Dec 2004 15:52:46 GMT, (PENMART01)
wrote:

> use enough rice to at least balance the quantity of chicken you'll
> prepare.

Good input!

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wrote:

> 1/2 cup of uncooked rice yields about one full cup.

For most types of rice, 1/3 cup raw yield a cup. The standard recipe is
a 2:1 ratio of water to rice.

For jasmine rice, I use signficantly less water.




Brian

wrote:

> 1/2 cup of uncooked rice yields about one full cup.

For most types of rice, 1/3 cup raw yield a cup. The standard recipe is
a 2:1 ratio of water to rice.

For jasmine rice, I use signficantly less water.




Brian