Oatmeal is ground oat groats that is made by crushing oat grains. Oatmeal is rich in nutrients - proteins, unsaturated fatty acids, mucous substances, vitamins B1, B6 and E. They also contain iron and calcium, phosphorus and lecithin. They are easily digestible and they are known for their richness in dietary fibre that regulates cholesterol and glucose in blood. Oatmeal helps reduce blood pressure and they have positive influence on the nervous system and they mitigate hyperthyroidism.
Oats as Food with Healing Properties
Ancient cultural peoples were not aware of oats as food. It grew in the fields as weed and it was only in the early Middle Ages that its advantages were discovered by Slavs. Their experience with oats was further taken to Germans and Celts. At present, we can encounter up to fifty species of oats in Central Europe alone.
Oats is not only food, it is also a healing agent. Very few foods can match oats in terms of nutrient content. Effects of oats are obvious in diseases of throat, chest and stomach, in fevers and in treatment of eczemas. It is a great food for recovering patients.
Oatmeal Makes for a Great Energy Resource
It has been used for a long time as a diet food. Oatmeal breakfast energizes your body enough for the whole morning and you don't usually get hungry until lunchtime. Oatmeal is also used as a supporting agent for muscle growth and they help reduce weight and build the body.
Oatmeal breakfast provides a tired and weakened body with a generous dose of energy. Oatmeal is also a popular pre-training food for athletes and bodybuilders. You can make them sweet or savoury and they will feed your hunger reliably. You can prepare them in hundreds of ways.
It helps in case of intestinal and stomach problems, digestive problems and it strengthens the immune system. It also mitigates hyperthyroidism. It is suitable for dieting as it helps degrade fats and cholesterol in the body. Oatmeal also helps men increase their testosterone levels.
Oatmeal is most frequently available in the form of whole oat grains that puff up and soften in water or milk. You can also get so-called fine oatmeal that softens more easily. Another variation is oatmeal, i.e. flakes made of oat flour, that is frequently used in dieting and is also a part of infants' nutrition. You don't have to chew on them - they are very fine.
Oatmeal has no characteristic taste and they are versatile for use. We can use then anywhere we want to make a simple, good, nutritious and easily digestible dish.
Oatmeal Not Only in the Kitchen
Interest in oatmeal keeps increasing approximately since the 1960s. It the U.S., oatmeal was very popular also in the 1980s. They were most frequently prepared in the form of porridge. In rational diet, they form a basis for various dishes and spreads. They are even added into some alcoholic beverages; they are even used in cosmetics in soaps and body milks on the basis of oats milk. They are also used in medicine and as a seasoning for dogfood.
Most frequently, oatmeal is used to thicken soups, but it is also great for various porridges, stuffings, meatballs, meatloaves, as a coating for frying instead of breadcrumbs; we can also use fried oatmeal for sprinkling instead of cheese. We also add them into various vegetable dishes - to make the dish richer and to make it more coherent. We can also use oatmeal to prepare sweet desserts, cookies, cakes, pancakes... Finely ground oatmeal can even substitute flour.
Oatmeal Recipes
Oatmeal for Breakfast
Oatmeal for breakfast is very easy and fast to prepare. You can make them sweet or salty. There are countless variations, we bring you some of them here:
Honey Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 2 tbs honey
- 1 tbs butter
Honey Oatmeal - Preparation
Fry the oatmeal on a Teflon pan until they turn golden. Then, push them away from the centre and melt the butter in the centre. Use the butter to mix in honey and oatmeal. Fry everything quickly so as to prevent the mixture from getting sour. Take it off the fire and let it cool down. We can eat the mixture as it is or add it into a yoghurt, etc. You can also improve the mixture by adding some cinnamon.
Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
- 50 g oatmeal
- 0.25 litre water
- 1 tsp butter
- 1 tsp honey
Oatmeal Porridge - Preparation
Heat up some water and add the oatmeal in it. Keep stirring it constantly and make it boil. Sweeten the porridge with honey, pour it into a deep bowl and place a piece of butter on top.
Oatmeal Crepes
Ingredients
- 150 g oatmeal
- 2 eggs (whites suffice)
- 200 ml milk
- sugar
- a pinch of salt
Oatmeal Crepes - Preparation
Put milk, sugar and salt into a blender and blend up a smooth matter. Add oatmeal and you get a slightly thicker matter. Pour an appropriate amount of dough into a heated pan, spread it on its entire surface and fry on both sides. If you use a teflon pan, you may even fry without using any fat.
Oatmeal Grenola
Ingredients
- 3 tbs oatmeal
- 150 g sour cream
- 1 tbs raisins
- 1 tbs chopped nuts
- 1 tbs honey
- half an apple
Oatmeal Granola - Preparation
Put oatmeal in a bowl and mix it with cream. Add raisins, nuts and sweeten it with honey. Slice an apple into small slices. You can prepare it a couple of hours in advance; it will make the oatmeal smoother.
Oatmeal Soups
Oatmeal Soup with Carrots
Ingredients
- 200 g carrot
- 2 tbs oatmeal
- 1 tbs oil
- vegetable or meat broth
- 1 onion
Oatmeal Soup with Carrots - Preparation
Fry the chopped onion on oil and add grated carrot and a pinch of salt to make the carrot release its juice. Pour boiling broth over it and add the oatmeal. Boil everything for 15 minutes.
Such soup is suitable if you are fighting constipation. It contains soluble and non-soluble dietary fibre, vitamins of the groups A and B, calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc.
Oatmeal Soup with Garlic
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- garlic to your taste
- vegetable or meat broth
- 4 tbs oatmeal
- parsley leaves
- marjoram
- salt
- 1 tbs fat
Oatmeal Soup with Garlic - Preparation
Fry the finely chopped onion on heated fat, add the oatmeal and fry it until it turns pink. Then pour the borth over everything and boil until everything softens. Season the soup with garlic pressed with salt and marjoram. Boil shortly. Then serve with chopped parsley.
"Tripe" Oatmeal Soup
Ingredients
- 2 carrots
- parsley
- quarter celery
- 4 tbs oatmeal
- 2 tbs very fine flour
- 2 tbs oil
- 1 tbs butter
- 3 cloves of garlic
- meat broth
- 2 tsp sweet ground paprika
- salt
- marjoram
"Tripe" Oatmeal Soup - Preparation
Fry the oatmeal and the flour on oil, pour the broth over them and mix everything together. Cut the cleaned vegetables into noodles or grate it and boil it shortly in the broth. Mix the heated butter with ground paprika and add them into the soup together with pressed garlic, then boil everything together. Season the soup with marjoram, add salt and serve it with bread.
Oatmeal Soup with Cauliflower
Ingredients
- 1 medium-sized cauliflower
- 1 egg yolk
- 1.5 tbs butter
- 0.5 tbs vegetable fat
- 0.5 tbs dried yeast
- 2 tbs oatmeal
- parsley
- salt
Oatmeal Soup with Cauliflower - Preparation
Boil the cauliflower in salty water until it softens. Then remove it and put butter and oatmeal into the cauliflower water and boil them for about 15 minutes. Strain the soup through a sieve or blend it in a blender, then add an egg yellow and pour it over the boiled disintegrated cauliflower. Add finely chopped parsley and yeast.
Oatmeal Soup with Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups oatmeal
- 3 tbs butter
- 200 ml cream 12%
- vegetable broth
- 4 tbs chopped chives
- 1 pinch salt
Oatmeal Soup with Cream - Preparation
Fry oatmeal on butter shortly, pour water over it, add the broth and boil for 10 minutes. Add salt to taste, then add cream and boil for another 10 minutes. Serve with chopped chives.
Main Dishes with Oatmeal Sides
Potato Pancakes with Mushrooms and Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 50 g carrot
- 50 g parsley
- 50 g cabbage
- 1 onion
- 50 g dried mushrooms
- 200 g oatmeal
- 0.5 litre water
- eggs
- marjoram
- salt
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 tbs parsley
- oil
Potato Pancakes with Mushrooms and Oatmeal - Preparation
First, prepare a thick oatmeal porridge. Submerge dried mushrooms into lukewarm water for a little while and then boil them for about 10 minutes. Then put a tablespoon of oil into a pan and use it to fry the chopped onions, then add other vegetables and stew it together until everything softens. Then mix everything together - the porridge, the vegetables, the mushrooms - and add eggs, salt, parsley, pressed garlic, and make little pancakes (5-6 cm in diameter). Then fry them on oil on both sides until they turn golden. Such pancakes are suitable either as an autonomous dish or as a side dish for meat and vegetables.
Oatmeal Vegetable Flapjacks
Ingredients
- 150 g oatmeal
- marjoram
- garlic
- herb salt
- chopped parsley
- fried onion
- 200 ml broth
- 100 g boiled or frozen vegetables (peas, corn, carrot, etc.).
- oil
- 2 leggs
Oatmeal Vegetable Flapjacks - Preparation
Mix all the aforementioned ingredients (apart from eggs and vegetables) together and add the broth. Mix everything well and leave it to grow for an hour and a half. Then add the eggs, vegetables and stir well. Season to taste. Use the prepared mixture to make little flapjacks which you fry on oil on both sides.
Sweet Oatmeal Recipes
Oatmeal Pancakes
Ingredients
- 100 g oatmeal
- 300 ml milk
- 50 g very fine flour
- salt
- 1 eggs
- 10 g yeast
- baking fat
- cinnamon sugar
- fruit marmalade
- cream cheese
- whipped cream
Oatmeal Crumpets - Preparation
Submerge the oatmeal into a part of the milk for an hour; add flour, salt, eggs and leaven made from the yeast. Add the remaining milk and work runny dough. Bake on both sides and season it with cinnamon sugar, smear it with marmalade, cream cheese and decorate with whipped cream or a flavoured yoghurt.
Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 150 g oatmeal
- 200 ml water
- 150 g sugar
- 240 g very fine flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
Oatmeal Cookies - Preparation
Pour water over oatmeal. After a little while, add other ingredients and work dough, spread it and make holes in it with a fork. Cut out circles or other shapes with a cutter and bake them in a heated oven for about 10 minutes.
