how many grams in a tablespoon of peanuts?

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• How many grams of peanuts are in a tablespoon?
  About 8.9 g for chopped or whole shelled peanuts measured level. Coarsely chopped peanuts pack a little looser than whole, but the difference rarely exceeds 1 g per tablespoon. That's the going amount for a topping spoon over pad thai or bun cha, where one tablespoon per portion gives you visible peanut without overwhelming the dish.
• Is a tablespoon of peanuts enough to top a noodle dish?
  For most Southeast Asian noodle dishes — pad thai, pad see ew, bun bo xao — one tablespoon of crushed roasted peanuts per serving is the standard finish. It adds about 9 g of nuts per plate, which reads as a clear textural layer without burying the herbs and lime. Two tablespoons starts to feel like a peanut-forward dish rather than a garnish.
• How much peanut butter does one tablespoon of peanuts make?
  Roughly one tablespoon, give or take. About 9 g of roasted peanuts blends down into 11-13 g of peanut butter once you account for the oil released and any added salt. That's not a useful single-batch quantity — homemade peanut butter only makes sense at the cup scale — but the ratio holds if you're scaling up.

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