# Daal Portion Calculator

Plan dry lentils and water from your preferred per person quantities.

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Category: Cooking & Baking

Daal portions depend on the dry lentil quantity and the consistency you prefer after cooking.

Choose your per person basis, guest count and water quantity. Keep tarka and other additions in a separate ingredient plan.

## Inputs and controls

* People (people). Allowed range: 1 to 10000
* Dry daal per person (g). Allowed range: 0.001 to 10000000
* Water volume / dry daal mass (ml/g). Allowed range: 0 to 30
* Measured cooked mass / dry mass (×). Allowed range: 0.01 to 30

## How to use

* Enter people and dry daal per person.

* Enter water volume / dry daal mass and measured cooked mass / dry mass.

* Select Calculate result. Read the returned values alongside the assumptions below before copying, exporting or acting on the result.


## Why use this tool

The portion worksheet lets you resize your own daal batch without imposing a lentil variety or cooking method.


## Before relying on the result

This is a quantity worksheet. Lentil type, soaking, consistency and cooking method are not chosen by the calculator.


## Tool limitations

This is a quantity worksheet. Lentil type, soaking, consistency and cooking method are not chosen by the calculator.

## Questions

### Does the calculator choose the water for my lentil type?

No. Water is an entered recipe quantity. Match it to the lentil, soaking and cooking method you use.

### What should I check before using Daal Portion Calculator?

Check People, Dry daal per person, Water volume / dry daal mass and Measured cooked mass / dry mass. Use the exact units shown beside the controls and replace any example values with your own inputs.

Source page last modified (UTC): 2026-10-01T16:12:30+00:00

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