4 cups of uncooked couscous would be a good amount for 12 servings. It also depends on how you cook the couscous, meaning if this is a great recipe that family and friends rave about, then 5 cups would be better. But if it is a side and half the people go for seconds, 4 cups would suffice.
1 cup of dry macaroni elbows is equal to 4oz. So 3 cups of dry macaroni is equal to 12oz.
.One cup of uncooked rice will yield two cups of cooked rice
Use 1/3 of a cup per person depending on how hungry they are. So 4 cups should do it. Rice will expand to about 2 1/2 times it's uncooked volume.
8 oz of uncooked, dry macaroni is about 2 cups
4 cups of uncooked elbow macaroni is About 1 pound, 1 ounce.
Small dry macaroni is about 3.6 cups to the pound
Macaroni is about 120 grams to a cup. That is 3.6 cupsper pound
8 oz of dry macaroni weighs 8 oz. -I guess you really wanted to know how many cups is 8 oz of dry macaroni - it is about 1.8 cups.
A cup of uncooked macaroni is approximately 4 ounces . So 16 oz is 4 cups.
That is 1.5 cups
1 3/4 cups to 2 cups uncooked macaroni equals 8 oz. (about 4 cups cooked)
To answer your question, about 2-3 cups of macaroni will make 10 cups of cooked macaroni. That is only because macaroni swells up when you cook it.................
3 cups dry macaroni
About 3.8 cups.
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