PRACTICAL KITCHEN HELP
Cooking tools
Small calculators for the planning problems that come up most often when cooking Pakistani food for a crowd.
Cooking for a dawat, an Eid lunch or a family gathering usually starts with the same questions: how much rice, how much meat, and how to convert a recipe written in cups into grams. These tools answer those questions quickly. They give estimates rather than exact figures, because appetites, side dishes and the rice itself all vary, so round up when in doubt.
What can I cook?
Tick the ingredients you already have, from chicken and potatoes to besan and anardana, and see which of our recipes you can make now and exactly what is missing from the rest. Choices in a recipe, such as ghee or oil, count either way.
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Biryani calculator
Choose chicken, beef, mutton or vegetable biryani, the number of adults and children, appetite, whether it is served with sides and how much you want left over. It estimates the rice, meat, onions, yoghurt, tomatoes, potatoes, oil, ginger-garlic paste, herbs and lemons to buy.
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Rice calculator
Works out how much uncooked rice to cook for biryani, pulao, plain rice, fried rice or khichdi, depending on the number of people, appetite, whether rice is the main dish or a side, and the variety of rice.
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Kitchen unit converter
Converts between cups, spoons, millilitres, grams and ounces, including ingredient-specific conversions for rice, flour, sugar, ghee and lentils, and between Celsius, Fahrenheit and gas marks.
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