I am cooking a spaghitti dinner for forty people?

Question

I would like to know how much sauce to make and how much meat I am going to need and how much pasta?

Answer 1

Heres some advice... ALOT!!

Answer 2

First off, plan for leftovers. That makes it easy. You can always make too much.

Tell you what........I make homemade sauce by a huge pot at a time. If you email me, I will scan my homemade recipe and email it back to you. IT IS BETTER THAN SEX!!! It makes 3 gallons, it will be enough for 40 people, you can freeze what's extra, and you'll get loads of requests for the recipe. The meat is included in this sauce.

You will need about a standard roaster full of pasta. If the crowd is mixed men, women, and children, you won't have a lot of huge eaters so it should work. If you had 40 spaghetti eaters like me, you'd need 2 roasters full. I'd make that just to be safe. Cook it, drain it, wash it off with very hot tap water in the colander, and then refrigerate it in advance. Cook it a little on the "raw" side. Heat it up in the roasters with the lid on and a little water in it just before serving. You'll lose a little bit to the sides of the roasters but you'll have plenty.

Feel free to email me for that sauce recipe. Nothing commercial or in the store can touch it. - Kevin

Answer 3

I normaly use about 1lb of meat for a "normal" pot of sauce (feeds 4-6) people, and about 3/4-1 lb of uncooked noodles.

So...to be on the safe side (I'd rather have left overs than not enough), I would use 10 lb of meat, and about 9-10 lb of pasta.

I just had a spaghitti dinner for 15 people and use 2.5 lb of meet and 3 lb of past...had just one serving of pasta and about 3 servings of sauce left...of course, it depends on how much other stuff you add to the sauce...you can make it real meaty and need more meat, or make it more saucy and use less meat.

Answer 4

As for the pasta, a normal serving is 4 oz. So take your total by 1.5. Some eat more, some eat less. And leftovers are good for yourself or your help to show appreciation. My husband could probably eat a pound of spaghetti, I'd only have 2 oz.

Unfortunately I can't help on the meat and sauce.

Answer 5

you will have yo times it by about 4 if 3 table spoons of olive oil instead you use 12 the amount is at the end about the olive oil its just an example what to do good luck i hope it all works out



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SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE

Ragù alla Bolognese
Emilia-Romagna
Preparation - Medium
Prep: 30 min Cook: 3-5 hrs
Serves 4

Spaghetti Bolognese - Bolognese sauce usually features at least two different kinds of meat, the meat is usually minced, not ground, and milk or cream in some measure is added at some point. This is our adaption of the Bolognese recipe. For a quick meat sauce with ground beef, see Simple Meat Sauce or try the more classic Bolognese Sauce with milk and nutmeg.

3 Tb olive oil (12)
3 TB butter (12)
1 large onion, finely chopped (4)
2 stalks celery finely chopped (8)
2 carrots finely chopped (size of a wooden match head) (8)
2 bay leaves (8)
1/2 tsp dry oregano (more to taste) 1 tsp fresh (2 or 4)
1/4 cup red wine (optional) (3)
1 14 oz and 1 28 oz can tomatoes (36 oz all together) (5 cups)
14 oz tomato sauce - homemade, or commercial, Hunts or similar (2 cups)
1 lb good quality beef, minced (4 ib)
1/4 lb ground pork or Italian style pork sausage broken up in small pieces (12)
salt
chili pepper or pepperoncino, small piece (more to taste)
IN an earthenware pot or the heaviest, deepest pot you have, heat the oil/butter. Add the chopped onion and saute briefly over medium heat until just translucent. Add the celery, carrot and optional hot pepper and cook gently until softened, about 2 - 4 minutes.

ADD the minced beef and the pork sausage, breaking it up with a fork. Add salt to taste, stir, and cook only until the meat has lost its raw, red color. Add the wine, turn the heat up to medium high, and cook, stirring occasionally, until all the wine has evaporated.

ADD the tomatoes, the oregano and the bay leaves and stir thoroughly. When the tomatoes have started to bubble, turn the heat down until the sauce cooks at the gentlest simmer, just an occasional bubble. Cook, uncovered, for a minimum of 3 to 4 hours, stirring occasionally. Taste and check for salt. (If you cannot keep an eye on the sauce for such a long stretch, you can turn off the heat and resume cooking it later on. But do finish cooking it in one day.)

USING FRESH TOMATOES: Plunge in hot water, peel and de seed as much as possible, simmer in a little water, covered, until soft, then process briefly to a coarse sauce consistency before adding.

YOU can refrigerate for up to 3 days. Freezes well. You can make extra portions for later.

Answer 6

entree? main meal? only dish or is there other food?
meat for bolognaise, meat balls or other?
on average around 10 packets of pasta and 5 kg of meat.
again with sauce, do you mean ready made sauce in Jars? if you are making the sauce cover the meat with water and keep adding tomato paste ( along with herbs and other flavours) until you get the consistency you want.

Answer 7

O K, I,ve done this before. 1 pound of pasta will feed 4 people, 1 pound of burger per pound of pasta and 1 jar of sauce per pound of meat. I hope that helps

Answer 8

I sometimes cook for 40 and I have found that this website has great ideas, especially for spaghetti dinners! There are lots of issues with cooking that much pasta! You've got to cook it ahead of time usually but how do you reheat it etc? I've never tried to cook that much spaghetti but this website has advice from a lot of people who've done it and notes about the "problems" encountered and their solutions. Good Luck!

http://members.tripod.com/~lotsofinfo/index.html

Answer 9

If you are really serious? Buy 15 32 ounce bags of pasta----15 large jars of sauce, and 2 20 pound trays of hamburger meat. Remember "portions" when setting up your buffet. GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 10

about 1 lb of pasta can serve 4 people, so i guess 10lb of pasta. sauce? umm..lets see depending on how much sauce, 1 gallon of sauce, and meats, 5lb of meat in sauce. I am just estimating, it depends on your taste.

Answer 11

get angel hair past a big bag of egg noodles make bread with butter or make garlic bread to help fill them get a few jars of prego or ragu in the big bottles at least 10 just in case if they want to add some on their pasta so make a pot of sauce get many bags of shredded mozzerella are parmesan in a container maybe add chicken parm or meat balls to make it more filling and less u need to get