Recipe Development

Creating your recipes

Having recipes that produce high quality dishes is extremely important for most cafes, restaurants and hotels.  These recipes need to have consistant results everytime regardless of who prepares them and yield an appropriate quantity for your business.  It is also important your recipes are as healthy as they can be.

Get started developing your recipes using the template below.  This will allow you to enter the cost of ingredients and quantities needed.  In doing so you can work out your food cost for any number of portions or final weight of product you wish.

When creating your recipes ask these questions about added fat, salt or sugar:

• Can it be left out?
• Can the amount be decreased?
• Can a substitute be used to improve the nutritional value or taste?
• Could other ingredients be added to improve the nutritional value?
• Can the preparation or cooking methods be changed to reduce the fat content?