Uncooked white rice: cups to grams
A cup of uncooked long-grain white rice weighs about 198 g, so a handy estimate is 200 g. Jasmine, basmati and arborio rice weigh about the same per cup.
1 cup of uncooked white rice = 200 g
½ cup = 100 g · ¼ cup = 50 g · 1 tablespoon = 10 g
Convert any amountUncooked white rice: cups to grams
| US cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 25 g |
| ¼ cup | 50 g |
| ⅓ cup | 65 g |
| ½ cup | 100 g |
| ⅔ cup | 130 g |
| ¾ cup | 150 g |
| 1 cup | 200 g |
| 1½ cups | 300 g |
| 2 cups | 400 g |
| 3 cups | 590 g |
| 4 cups | 790 g |
Tablespoons and teaspoons
| Spoon | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 10 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 25 g |
| ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) | 50 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 4 g |
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Grams to cups
Going the other way, for a metric recipe in US cups:
| Grams | Cups of uncooked white rice |
|---|---|
| 25 g | about 2 tbsp |
| 50 g | about ¼ cup |
| 100 g | about ½ cup |
| 125 g | about ⅝ cup |
| 150 g | about ¾ cup |
| 200 g | about 1 cup |
| 250 g | about 1¼ cups |
| 300 g | about 1½ cups |
| 400 g | about 2 cups |
| 500 g | about 2½ cups |
| 1 kg | about 5 cups |
How much does it make?
Rice roughly triples in volume as it cooks. One cup (200 g) of uncooked white rice makes about 3 cups of cooked rice, enough for 3 to 4 people as a side.
Cooked rice
Recipes that call for cups of cooked rice, such as fried rice, need about 170 g per cup. You can pick "Cooked rice" in the calculator.
Weights are for a level US cup (236.6 ml), spooned in, based on published baking ingredient-weight charts. Weighing will always be more accurate than any cup.