How do you adjust a recipe that serves 4 people to make it suitable for one person

alialkomi

Hi guys
Can help me

AmunahSki

I assume some ingredients (i.e. one egg) can’t simply/easily be divided by 4, or you wouldn’t be asking the question.

Perhaps you should make it as given/listed, eat 1 portion and freeze 3 portions, if it’s suitable for freezing?

Can you perhaps link or list the recipe, so we can give more accurate guidance?

mtaratoot

The only two ways I can thing of are:

1. Divide all the ingredients in the recipe by four.
2. Make the recipe and eat one serving. Save the leftovers for another meal or give them to three friends.

I think the second way makes the most sense if you're going strictly from a recipe. Sometimes cook times can be affected by the amount you make. You can generally scale a recipe up or down, but sometimes it can come out wrong because not all of the scale factors are linear.

ivorfmorgan

Cook for four, freeze three and eat one

Hobartlemagne

AmunahSki wrote: »

I assume some ingredients (i.e. one egg) can’t simply/easily be divided by 4, or you wouldn’t be asking the question.

Perhaps you should make it as given/listed, eat 1 portion and freeze 3 portions, if it’s suitable for freezing?

Can you perhaps link or list the recipe, so we can give more accurate guidance?

One large egg is roughly 2 fluid ounces. 1/4 of that is 1 tbsp. You can whisk your egg, measure a tablespoon, then eat the rest or discard.

mtaratoot

I advocate strongly against throwing away any edible food.

If you have a recipe that needs a quarter of an egg, use the whole egg or skip the egg.