Rice Calculator for How Much Rice to Cook (2024)

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1. How much rice per person

• How many cups per person
• How many grams per person
• How much is one serving of rice

• How many calories in a half-cup of rice
• How much protein is in a serving of rice

How much rice per person

The rice calculator can help you determine the amount of dry rice (uncooked rice) you need to feed a person. It works for any type of rice: white, brown, Basmati, Jasmine, Black japonica, Arborio (risotto rice), as well as any type of grain (long grain, short grain, or medium grain rice).

How many cups per person

If rice is the primary dish, use half a cup of uncooked rice per person (US legal cups), or ¾ rice cooker cups per person. Rice typically doubles its weight and volume when cooked, so that ½ cup would become about one full US cup. Consider increasing the amount to ¾ cups or a full rice cooker cup if feeding a large or especially hungry adult.

If rice is a side dish, typically about ⅔ of the above amount is recommended, so about ¼ US legal cup, or ⅓ of a rice cooker cup.

How many grams per person

For a primary dish made primarily of rice, consider 90-100 grams per person. When cooked, it roughly doubles to 200 grams of cooked rice per serving. If it is a side dish, the recommended amount is about 60g of uncooked rice per person. As it expands after cooking, absorbing water, it will equal to 120g of cooked rice.

For other measures of dry rice, including milliliters (ml), fluid ounces, and imperial units, use our calculator above.

How much is one serving of rice

One serving of cooked rice is roughly 1 US legal cup or about 1.5 rice cooker cups. This is equivalent to 180 to 200 grams per serving. To prepare this amount of rice, you need roughly half the amount of dry rice in a recipe.

Uncooked to cooked rice calculation

Converting dry rice to cooked rice amounts is a common task when one wants to plan and scale a cooking recipe. All types of rice roughly double in volume and weight after being cooked as they absorb the water and oil present in the rice cooker, pot, or frying pan. Therefore, a good rule of thumb to find out how much cooked rice one cup dry rice is, is to simply double the uncooked amount.

Some examples for uncooked to cooked rice equivalences:

• 1 cup dry rice equals 2 cups of cooked rice.
• 2 cups of uncooked rice equal 4 cups of cooked rice.
• 3 cups of uncooked equal 6 cups of cooked rice.
• 4 cups equal 8 cups when cooked.
• 100 g of dry rice is 200 g of cooked rice.
• 250 g of dry rice equals 500 g of cooked rice.

The math to find how much cooked rice you will end up with is that easy, but you can use our uncooked rice to cooked rice calculator to help speed it up. Note that the type of rice does not really matter as all properly cooked rice expands to roughly twice its size. To avoid undercooking or overcooking your rice, make sure you get the rice to water ratio right, as well as the cooking time. Undercooked rice can be saved by adding a bit of water (if it had evaporated or was fully absorbed), and leaving for a little longer on the stove. Overcooked rice is, unfortunately, not something you can recover from.

Rice cooking chart

Here is a brief chart to save you when you wonder how much rice you need to feed a given number of people. All numbers assume the standard serving size used for rice as a primary dish.

Amounts are given in cups and grams. For example, to see how many cups of rice are needed for three servings, look up the row and the corresponding cup measurement unit. If weighing the rice on a kitchen scale which is typically recommended for best results, use the measurement in ounces or grams. For other units and other numbers of servings use our rice calculator above.

Rice nutrition facts

Rice is a grain, it is high on starch and is rich in proteins, but primarily consists of carbohydrates (carbs) with 100g of cooked rice containing roughly 28g of carbs ^[1] which amounts to about 45g per serving. Rice is very low on fats with just 0.28g per 100g or about 0.45g of fats per serving.

How many calories in a half-cup of rice

Cooked white long grain rice contains about 59 Calories per half-cup of cooked rice or about 117 Calories per half-cup of dry rice. This comes from the USDA measurement of 130 Calories per 100 grams of cooked white long grain rice which translates to roughly 234 Calories per serving ^[1].

How much protein is in a serving of rice

According to data from the USDA FoodData Central, cooked white long grain rice contains about 2.7 grams of protein per 100 grams ^[1], and so one serving contains roughly 4.5g of protein. It should be noted that steamed rice retains roughly 20% more protein than cooked rice.