how many grams in a cup of pistachio nuts?

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• How many grams in a cup of shelled pistachios?
  About 120 g for shelled, raw or roasted pistachios, spooned into the cup and leveled. If you're starting with in-shell nuts, plan on roughly 240 g per cup of in-shell volume yielding about 120 g once cracked — the shells take up half the space. Bronte and Iranian varieties run a touch lighter per cup because the kernels are smaller and more uniform.
• Do I weigh pistachios before or after grinding for cake?
  Weigh them whole, then grind. A pistachio-cardamom cake or a financier-style cake calling for 1 cup of ground pistachios means 120 g of nuts before they hit the food processor. Grinding aerates the meal and a 'cup of ground pistachios' can swing 90-130 g depending on how fine you grind. Weighing whole keeps the flour-to-nut ratio honest.
• Are Sicilian Bronte pistachios the same weight per cup as Iranian or American?
  Close enough for volume work — all shelled pistachios cluster around 115-125 g per cup. Bronte kernels are smaller, longer, and more deeply green, and Iranian Kerman pistachios sit in the same size range. California pistachios tend to be plumper, so a cup runs slightly heavier. For baklava or pistachio paste where color and flavor drive the recipe, the variety matters more than the gram count.

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