How many cups is 250g of dried pasta?
250g of dried pasta (dry pasta) is
2½ cups + 2 tbsp
That's 2.63 US cups, 2.49 metric cups, or 42 level tablespoons.
Worked out from 1 US cup = 95g. Cups are rounded to the nearest kitchen fraction, with what's left over in level tablespoons. If you have scales, weighing is more accurate.
Pasta shapes pack differently, so a cup of each weighs a different amount. The headline figure is penne.
Other amounts of dried pasta
- 100g: 1 cup + 1 tbsp
- 200g: 2 cups + 2 tbsp
- 1 cup: 95g
- Half a cup: 48g
- A quarter cup: 24g
- 1 tablespoon: 5.9g
- Full table for dried pasta
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 20120: “Pasta, dry, enriched”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 cup spaghetti = 91g
- 2 oz = 57g
- 1 cup elbows = 122g
- 1 cup penne = 95g
- 1 cup farfalle = 81g
- 1 cup rotini = 96g
- 1 cup shells = 64g
- 1 cup lasagna = 90g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The tablespoon figure is the cup weight divided by 16, since USDA doesn't list a tablespoon for this ingredient. 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.