Paella for a crowd
For seafood paella, EventCalc scales rice, seafood, vegetable stock and peas to your group. The basis is a published recipe for 4 servings. EventCalc counts one serving per adult and scales every ingredient linearly to your guest count — without inventing a finished weight for the cooked dish, which the source does not state.
Ingredients for your guest count
| Ingredient | Recipe (4 servings) | 10 people | 20 people | 30 people | 50 people | 100 people |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onions | 1 pcs | 2.5 pcs | 5 pcs | 7.5 pcs | 12.5 pcs | 25 pcs |
| Garlic | 2 pcs | 5 pcs | 10 pcs | 15 pcs | 25 pcs | 50 pcs |
| Red bell pepper (each) | 1 pcs | 2.5 pcs | 5 pcs | 7.5 pcs | 12.5 pcs | 25 pcs |
| Yellow bell pepper (each) | 1 pcs | 2.5 pcs | 5 pcs | 7.5 pcs | 12.5 pcs | 25 pcs |
| Olive oil | 45 ml | 113 ml | 225 ml | 338 ml | 563 ml | 1.13 l |
| Paella / risotto rice | 300 g | 750 g | 1.5 kg | 2.25 kg | 3.75 kg | 7.5 kg |
| Vegetable stock | 900 ml | 2.25 l | 4.5 l | 6.75 l | 11.25 l | 22.5 l |
| Chilli flakes | 1 g | 3 g | 6 g | 9 g | 16 g | 31 g |
| Sweet paprika powder | 3 g | 6 g | 13 g | 19 g | 31 g | 63 g |
| Mixed seafood (frozen, cooked) | 600 g | 1.5 kg | 3 kg | 4.5 kg | 7.5 kg | 15 kg |
| Peas (frozen) | 150 g | 375 g | 750 g | 1.13 kg | 1.88 kg | 3.75 kg |
| Lemon | 1 pcs | 2.5 pcs | 5 pcs | 7.5 pcs | 12.5 pcs | 25 pcs |
The "Recipe" column is the source's original figure. Every other column is scaled from it: for 10 people that is 2.5 times the recipe.
Calculate your own guest count
- Olive oil
- 225 ml
- Paella / risotto rice
- 1.5 kg
- Vegetable stock
- 4.5 l
- Chilli flakes
- 6 g
- Sweet paprika powder
- 13 g
- Mixed seafood (frozen, cooked)
- 3 kg
Listed without an amount
The recipe lists these without a quantity: Salz, Pfeffer, 1 Prise Safran. EventCalc invents no gram figure for them and therefore does not include them in the shopping list.
Servings instead of finished weight
The recipe states a serving count but no weight for the finished dish. That is why the planning unit here is "serving" and not "grams of Seafood paella". An invented gram figure would imply a precision the source does not support.
The same principle applies to price: ingredients with a verified market reference feed the cost estimate, ingredients without one stay openly reported as missing. An incomplete estimate is never presented as a final total.
Sources & data status
- REWE: Paella mit MeeresfrüchtenVerified by EventCalc on Sep 3, 2026
How EventCalc separates source values, its own assumptions and price status is explained on the methodology page.
Frequently asked questions
- How much Seafood paella for 20 people?
- Onions: 5 pcs, Garlic: 10 pcs, Red bell pepper (each): 5 pcs (see the table for the remaining ingredients).
- How is it scaled from the recipe basis?
- Every ingredient amount is multiplied by "servings needed divided by 4". For 20 people that is 5 times the recipe.
- How are children calculated?
- EventCalc counts 0.6 servings per child. The recipe itself gives no child-specific value — the factor is a declared EventCalc assumption.
- How much rice per person for paella?
- Derived from the recipe: 300 g of paella/risotto rice for 4 servings, so 75 g of dry rice per serving. That is a derivation from this specific recipe, not a general paella recommendation.
- Fish or vegetable stock?
- The recipe allows either. EventCalc uses the vegetable-stock option by default because a verified market reference exists for it — an EventCalc choice, not a requirement of the source.
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