Bulgur Wheat: Cups to Grams
Bulgur Wheat weighs 140 g per US cup — so a recipe in cups and a recipe in grams can be swapped either way. 100 g is 3/4 cup, and 2 cups is 280 g.
💡 Tip: Weigh it dry — bulgur nearly triples once cooked, so dry and cooked cups are very different
Grams to cups chart for bulgur wheat
| Grams | Amount | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 3/8 cup | 1.76 |
| 100 | 3/4 cup | 3.53 |
| 150 | 1 1/8 cups | 5.29 |
| 180 | 1 1/4 cups | 6.35 |
| 200 | 1 3/8 cups | 7.05 |
| 250 | 1 3/4 cups | 8.82 |
| 300 | 2 1/8 cups | 10.6 |
| 400 | 2 7/8 cups | 14.1 |
| 500 | 3 5/8 cups | 17.6 |
| 750 | 5 3/8 cups | 26.5 |
| 1000 | 7 1/8 cups | 35.3 |
Bulgur: precooked, just soak
Bulgur is parboiled, dried and cracked wheat, so it's already partly cooked — a cup of dry bulgur weighs about 140 g. Fine bulgur needs only a soak: pour over an equal-or-slightly-greater volume of boiling water and rest about 15 minutes. Coarser grades simmer like rice.
It roughly doubles to triples in volume once hydrated, making it the base for tabbouleh, pilafs and grain bowls.
Cups to grams chart for bulgur wheat
| Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1/4 | 35 | 1.23 |
| 1/3 | 46.7 | 1.65 |
| 1/2 | 70 | 2.47 |
| 3/4 | 105 | 3.7 |
| 1 | 140 | 4.94 |
| 1 1/2 | 210 | 7.41 |
| 2 | 280 | 9.88 |
| 3 | 420 | 14.8 |
| 4 | 560 | 19.8 |
Spoon reference: 1 tablespoon ≈ 8.75 g, 1 teaspoon ≈ 2.92 g.
Bulgur Wheat against the other grains & legumes
Among the 17 grains & legumes charted here, bulgur wheat is 4th heaviest at 140 g per cup, between frozen peas at 134 g and quinoa (uncooked) at 170 g.
That gap matters when you substitute by volume: use a cup of quinoa (uncooked) where the recipe wanted bulgur wheat and you have added about 30 g extra — 21% more than intended. Weighing instead of scooping removes the problem.
Bulgur Wheat conversion questions
- How many grams is 1 cup of bulgur wheat?
- A level US cup of bulgur wheat comes to roughly 140 g (4.94 oz on a scale).
- How many grams is 2 cups of dry bulgur?
- About 280 g, at roughly 140 g per cup.
- How many cups is 150g of bulgur?
- About 1⅛ cups of dry bulgur.
- How much water does bulgur need?
- Fine bulgur: pour over an equal-or-slightly-greater volume of boiling water and soak about 15 minutes. Coarse bulgur simmers like rice.
- How much does dry bulgur expand?
- It roughly doubles to triples in volume once soaked or cooked.
- Is bulgur the same as cracked wheat?
- Similar but not identical — bulgur is parboiled (precooked) cracked wheat, so it cooks much faster than plain cracked wheat.
- How many cups is 100g of bulgur wheat?
- About 3/4 cup — that is 100 divided by the 140 g a cup weighs.
- How many cups is 200g of bulgur wheat?
- Just over or under 1 3/8 cups, depending how firmly you fill the cup. 200 g ÷ 140 g per cup = 1 3/8 cups.
- How many cups is 250g of bulgur wheat?
- About 1 3/4 cups — that is 250 divided by the 140 g a cup weighs.