Halving recipes/reducing quantities

[deedub]

Hi all, I'm sure this has been answered elsewhere so if someone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. We're a small family and my kids can be a bit fussy about anything 'new'; my consultant advised me not to 'tweak' recipes to start with (I'm a newbie) which is fine for foods that can be frozen but tonight I'm left with a huge amount of risotto that the kids won't eat  . I'm not keen on freezing risotto so wondering if anyone has any tips on halving (or more) recipes? The EDC mushroom risotto quantity was about 3 times more than I needed.
Meantime I'll be eating risotto for lunch for a week  - good thing it's yummy!

[Vivaroo]

Hi Deedub,  I pretty much halve most recipes because we're a small family and I hate to waste ingredients if it turns out bad.  We had half the risotto tonight and it was my best effort thus far.  I halved everything but cooking time and kept herbs & vegetables original quantity, cause we like veggies, used pumpkin & mushroom.  I think when halving keep to similar cooking time, maybe check a couple of minutes early.  Dinner type recipes I think are forgiving, not so sure about halving cake/bread recipes.

Left over risotto maybe you could do a fish pie/tuna mornay type thing tomorrow night, or make little fish/veggie cakes, or stuff capsicums?

[judydawn]

Deedub, check out this thread for some more ideas for leftover risotto.

[fundj&e]

Depending on how much rice you have left, i would add mozzarella, napolitana sauce and bechamel sauce in layers like you would a lasanga, and bake it in a baking dish that has been buttered on the bottom and side, sprinkle some bread crumbs all over, it makes a nice crunchy crust

i make this using long grain rice. i use napolitana or bolognese sauce, bechamel sauce , peas, hard boiled eggs, mortadella, mozzarella, parmesan cheese and fried eggplant. 

[deedub]

Thanks Vivaroo, will halve the recipe next time as suggested. I'm sure the kids will come to love it eventually! Thanks for the link Judy, will check it out when I've got more time.