how many grams in a tablespoon of brown rice?

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• How many tablespoons of raw brown rice make a single serving?
  A standard side-dish serving of cooked rice is about half a cup, which comes from roughly 3 tablespoons of raw long-grain brown rice — call it 32 g. For a heartier main-dish portion, four tablespoons (about 42 g raw) cooks up to a full cup. The bran does soak up more water than white rice, so the cooked yield per tablespoon is slightly higher.
• Why would a recipe call for tablespoons of brown rice instead of cups?
  Stuffed-vegetable recipes and rice puddings sometimes call for a couple of tablespoons per portion because the rice is going into individual cavities — bell peppers, tomatoes, ramekins — where a cup-scale measurement would be wasteful. Tablespoons also show up in soups and grain-blend recipes where rice is one component among many, and the recipe wants you to layer in 2-3 tablespoons rather than dominate the bowl.
• Does the gram weight per tablespoon change for short-grain brown rice?
  Slightly. Short-grain and medium-grain brown rice grains are stubbier and pack a touch denser, so a tablespoon can run 11-12 g instead of 10.6 g. The difference is small enough that for most home recipes you can use the long-grain figure. If you're scaling a rice pudding by weight across grain types, weigh once with your specific bag to lock the number in.

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