Recipe Name Chicken Stir Fry Yield 15 servings Chicken breas

Recipe Name: Chicken Stir Fry                          Yield: 15 servings
Chicken breast strips 4lb                                    Carrots, julienne 2 lb.
Almonds, roasted 10 oz.                                     Soy sauce 3 oz.    

Based on the recipe above, how many pounds of bone-in raw chicken breast are needed for 325 people, given a 40% loss to trim and bones?

calculate how many pounds of carrot are needed to feed 225 people. Assume that you expect a 17% peel and cutting loss from AP to julienne strips of carrots.

Solution

HEre as 40% is lost in trim and bones, that means 60% of total amount of Chicken breast is given as 4lb.

So if total amount of breast for one person be x lb, then

60% of x = 4

or 0.6x = 4          or x= 4/0.6 = 40/6 = 6.66666 lb

so total Chicken breast required for 325 persons be = 325 x 6.66666 = 2166.67 ln

so last answer for first part is 2166.67 lb

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Again as 17% is used for peeling etc, so

total 87% of x lb =2

or 0.87x =2           or x = 2/0.87 =2.299 lb

so total amount of carrot needed for 225 people

= 2.299 x 225 = 517.24 lb

so last answer of part b is 517.24 lb