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You’ve priced a dish on a guess before. You picked a number that felt about right, and only found out later, once GST and the real cost of every ingredient were factored in, that the margin barely existed. A menu price built on instinct is hard to walk back once customers are used to paying it. Our recipe calculator works out your true food cost, your GST-inclusive cost, and your profit margin before the dish goes anywhere near a menu.

Chicken Karaage Burger with Spicy Mayonnaise

Method

Image of the ingredients for the karaage chicken burger recipe

Step 1

Preparing the chicken fillet: To make a marinade for the chicken, whisk together the soy sauce, sake, butter milk, sesame oil, ginger and garlic. Then, add 30 grams of caster sugar and whisk until the sugar has dissolved. Place the chicken thigh in the mixture and let it marinate for two hours in the fridge. While it is marinating, preheat your deep fryer to 180 degrees celsius.

Image of the chef marinating the chicken fillet

Step 2

After two hours, take the chicken out of the marinade and coat the chicken in the rice flour. Place into the deep fryer and cook each thigh until it is golden brown and crispy. Once it is done, season with salt and place it to the side.

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Photo shows the chef coating the chicken with flour and then deep-frying it

Poster of gourmet burger on a breadboard

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Step 3

For your kaffir lime marmalade, thinly slice the kaffir leaves, peel the zest off the lime and set aside. In a separate bowl, squeeze out the juice of the lime. Then, combine 125 grams of caster sugar and water in a pot. Place it on a low heat and bring to simmer. While continually stirring, add the lime zest and juice and bring to a simmer for a further 15 to 20 minutes.

Creating the zest

Step 4

To create your spicy mayonnaise, combine your Praise Whole Egg Mayonnaise, Holbrooks Worcestershire Sauce and Tabasco Sauce. Whisk the ingredients until they are blended together.

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Action image of the chef creating his spicy mayonnaise

Step 5

For the tatsoi and radish salad, thinly slice the Breakfast Radishes. Then, in a bowl, combine the radish leaves, Breakfast Radishes, lemon juice and sesame oil. Mix together, then season with salt and pepper to taste.

The chef is seen creating his radish salad

Step 6

To assemble your burger, carefully slice the Thaw and Serve Milk Bun. On the base of the bun, spread a thick layer of the spicy mayonnaise, then spread the marmalade on the base of the top of the bun. Gently put the karaage chicken down on the bun’s base, followed by a slice of cheddar cheese. Place the tatsoi and radish salad on-top. Finish off the assembly by placing the lid of the bun on top of the ingredients.

If burger buns are too basic, you can always use artisan bread to add a unique twist to your burgers.

Remember, you can also serve the burger with a side of crispy hot chips.

The Chef gently slices the bun open

The chef adds the chicken on top of the milk bun in the photo

The chef finishes off the burger and presents it for plating

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WHAT IS A RECIPE CALCULATOR?

A recipe calculator works out what a dish costs to make and what it needs to sell for to turn a profit. Some tools under that name are really a recipe converter, turning ounces and teaspoons into metric, or a recipe multiplier that scales quantities up or down, or a nutrition calculator returning the energy and carbohydrate count per serve. Ours is a recipe cost calculator. Enter your ingredient costs and servings, and you get a total cost, a cost per serve, and the margin behind your selling price.

HOW TO USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Enter your recipe name, method and serving size, and the number of servings the recipe makes.
Select “+ Add Ingredient” to build your ingredient list, then enter the quantity purchased and cost of goods for each item.
Enter the quantity your recipe actually uses for each ingredient, in grams, millilitres or each.
Select Calculate to see your total cost across the batch, plus the same figure with GST added and your cost per serve. This is where the calculator divides your total batch cost by your number of servings, converting it into a cost per portion.
Enter a Selling Price per serve to see your Food Gross Profit, Food Markup percentage and Total Generated Profit.

WHY FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Cafes and quick service kitchens change their menus often, and costing a new dish properly before it launches matters more than costing it quickly. Catering and events businesses price the same recipe at different scales throughout the year, a function for ten one week and an event for two hundred the next. Enter the servings for each job, and the calculator handles that recipe scaling without you reworking your ingredient list from scratch.

Bakeries producing large batches need to know the per-unit cost still holds as bakery ingredient prices shift. Contract caterers working to a fixed per-meal budget, such as aged care or education providers, can check a recipe against that budget before it goes into a wider meal planner or seasonal menu.

Across all of these, the value is the same. You get a cost per serve and a margin you can trust, built from your actual supplier pricing rather than an estimate.

Browse our recipes for menu inspiration, then cost them here before you commit to a price.

WHAT MAKES OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR DIFFERENT

Most recipe cost calculators are standalone software with no link to where you actually buy. Ours sits within Goodman Fielder Food Service, a foodservice supplier. Once you’ve priced a recipe and know your numbers, you’re already talking to the team that supplies the ingredients themselves. If a margin looks tighter than expected, that’s a conversation about ingredient pricing you can have straight away.

If you want to work through pricing on a specific dish or menu, our team can help. Get in touch today.

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