How many grams is half a cup of dried lentils?
Half a cup of dried lentils (dry lentils) weighs
96g
That's 3.4oz. In a 250ml metric cup it's 101g.
This uses the US cup, the size American recipes mean. Half a cup is 118ml by volume.
Other amounts of dried lentils
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 16069: “Lentils, raw”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 cup = 192g
- 1 tablespoon = 12g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The teaspoon is a third of the tablespoon. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.