Traditional Scottish dish skyrley. Fried rolled oats with sugar in a frying pan. Toasted oat flakes
We've found 10 breakfast oatmeal recipes to add more variety to your healthy diet.
Oatmeal Breakfast Recipes
Everyone has heard about the benefits of oatmeal, I won’t repeat it: even children know that this is the healthiest porridge, which should definitely be in every person’s diet. I'm lucky: I love oatmeal. I can eat it every day, and in its simplest form - steamed with boiling water - and I don’t get tired of it at all. But I know at least a dozen ways to cook oatmeal in case you suddenly want variety. I share them with you in this article. In all recipes we use long-cooked oat flakes.
1. Lazy oatmeal
The name suggests that it is, of course, not the oatmeal that is lazy, but the one who cooks it. Yes, it couldn’t be simpler: in the evening, pour oatmeal with a fermented milk product (kefir, fermented baked milk) or milk, add nuts/dried fruits/honey to taste and put it in the refrigerator, and eat it in the morning. There is also a lean or vegan version of this dish: twenty years ago in the magazine “Rabotnitsa” it was called “French Breakfast of Beauty”. In this version, pour oatmeal not with milk, but with water, add grated apple and a little honey. Eat it with pleasure in the morning.
2. Steamed oatmeal
Perhaps steamed oatmeal can compete with “lazy” oatmeal in ease of preparation: pour boiling water over the flakes and let stand for about twenty minutes. Then add pieces of fruit, nuts, honey. I also like to add coconut flakes or chocolate chips for baking.
3. Oatmeal pancakes
It's almost an oatmeal pancake, so beloved by healthy eating enthusiasts, but in the form of pancakes - it's easier to flip. They can be made from ground flakes or oatmeal, whichever you prefer.
What do you need:
- oatmeal - 5 tablespoons;
- milk - 0.5 cups;
- egg - 1 pc;
- vegetable oil for frying.
How to cook:
Mix milk and egg with a fork, add oatmeal. Stir and let stand for 15 minutes. Heat a frying pan, grease with vegetable oil. Spoon the oat mixture into the pan, forming small pancakes. Fry until the underside is browned. Turn over and fry the other side for the same amount.
4. Porridge
The legendary porridge, after which the eater gains remarkable strength. This is not your ordinary oatmeal, although it is prepared that way. Well, perhaps without sugar and salt, but in the modern interpretation of the recipe they are sometimes added. I’ll tell you a classic recipe, and you can figure out how to improve it for yourself.
What do you need:
- water - 2 glasses;
- oatmeal - 2 tablespoons.
How to cook:
Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add oatmeal and cook, stirring, for 15-20 minutes over medium heat until the porridge becomes thick.
5. Oatmeal cookies
We offered one of the oatmeal cookie options as a gift in a jar. Now I’ll tell you another option, much simpler.
What do you need:
- banana - 1 pc.;
- oat flakes - 50 g.
How to cook:
Grind the banana with a fork into a puree and mix with the cereal. Form cookies and place on baking paper. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees.
6. Granola
Granola, or muesli, is a product that is better to make at home yourself than to buy in a store. You can add any dried fruits or nuts to your granola. I offer a recipe for pear granola.
What do you need:
- pear - 1 pc.;
- honey - 2 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- oatmeal - 2 cups;
- sesame seeds, seeds, nuts, cinnamon, ginger - optional and to taste.
How to cook:
- Turn on the oven and preheat to 150 degrees.
- Grate the pear. Mix pear, honey, oil.
- Separately mix the flakes with all the fillings. Combine the two mixtures.
- Place baking paper on a baking sheet and spread the mixture over the baking sheet. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes, remove and stir occasionally.
- Allow to cool before use.
7. Oatmeal stewed in a frying pan
One of the most unusual recipes in this collection. Suitable for those who don’t like oatmeal because of its consistency, and will also help diversify their diet.
What do you need:
- oatmeal - 200 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- butter - 50 g;
- mixture of herbs, salt to taste.
How to cook:
Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, chop the onion. Fry onions and carrots in butter (can be replaced with vegetable oil). Add oatmeal and fry for a couple of minutes. Salt and sprinkle with herbs. Pour a little water (2 tablespoons) into the pan, cover with a lid and leave for 15-20 minutes.
8. Oatmeal crumble
What do you need:
- oat flakes – 100 g;
- wheat flour – 100 g;
- sugar – 50 g;
- butter – 100 g;
- jam, frozen berries, fresh berries or pieces of fruit - 200 g.
How to cook:
Mix oatmeal with flour and sugar. Cut the butter into cubes or grate it. Using your hands, rub the dry mixture into crumbs. Place berries, fruits or jam in a heat-resistant form. Sprinkle with the resulting crumbs and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
9. Oatmeal pie
What do you need:
- milk - 200 ml;
- oatmeal - 150 g;
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- cocoa powder - 50 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 1 tablespoon;
- starch - 1 tablespoon;
- butter - 100 g;
- soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
- sugar - 200 g.
How to cook:
- Heat the milk in a ladle to approximately 80 degrees (do not boil) and pour it over the oatmeal. Mix well and cool.
- Melt the butter and cool.
- Line the baking dish with baking paper and turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.
- Add sugar, cocoa, butter to the cereal with milk and stir well.
- Add egg and cottage cheese to the mixture and mix well again.
- Separately mix flour, starch and soda, add dry ingredients to the oat mixture.
- Transfer the resulting dough into the pan and bake for about 35 minutes. Cut the finished pie into squares.
10. Granola bars
What do you need:
- oatmeal – 10 tablespoons;
- banana - 2 pcs.;
- honey - 1 tablespoon;
- dried fruits, nuts - to taste.
How to cook:
Grind the banana with a fork and mix with dried fruits, nuts, honey and oatmeal. Place in a cake pan and smooth the surface. Bake for 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 150 degrees. Cool, cut into rectangles.
Photo: Anna Atai, recipeshubs.com
Skirlie – Scottish fried oatmeal
Skirley - a savory Scottish oatmeal side dish
Skirlie (Skirlie is read as sk Yo Lee) is an old Scottish dish made from oatmeal, inexpensive, and tastes very satisfying and pleasant.
If you are tired of ordinary side dishes, try making Skirli - fried oat flakes soaked in butter and onion spice will give you new taste sensations and diversify your table.
Cooking options for Skirli
In Scotland there are several ways to prepare Skirley.
Some housewives fry rolled oats in butter, some use fat (chicken, duck, or melt regular lard). And each option of oil or fat adds its own flavor to the scotch fry.
There is an option to fry Skirley in fat rendered from pieces of brisket or bacon (they can then be removed and returned to the already fried oatmeal).
Oatmeal flakes can be used both tender (like our instant ones) and half and half with coarser rolled oats. It turns out delicious too.
They use either simple onions or red ones, which we usually put in salads.
Sometimes finely chopped greens (parsley or green onions) are added to the skyrli. This brings the flavors of a Scottish side dish of rolled oats to life.
What to serve with Skirli - food combinations
This sumptuous plate of hearty home-cooked food from Scotland includes skyrley, onion and carrot mince, green peas and mashed potatoes. Photo: minceandskirlie.wordpress.com
Skirli is prepared and eaten as a separate dish.
Either they fry minced meat and onions with it (or stew it as a gravy). Although, for some reason, some Russian housewives think that Skirli is oatmeal with minced meat, but this is a misconception. Traditional oatmeal skirley is in itself, minced meat gravy is in itself, these are separate dishes. You can combine it, it's really tasty.
And often in Scotland they serve mashed potatoes or some simple vegetables with skyrli.
Skirli can be served with stewed, boiled or fried chicken or other poultry.
In Scotland, partridge is traditionally added to Skirley (which we will most likely never have on hand, as well as venison, which is also often served with Scottish porridge). Skirli can be served with lamb, stewed kidneys with olives, scallops, fried cod, boiled mussels, leeks and fennel.
Skirli with chicken leg - tasty, simple and inexpensive. Photo: scottishrecipes.co.uk
Some people like Skirli cold and serve it with a couple of pickled eggs.
Skirli can also be used as a side dish or filling for pies.
Skirley is a very simple meal and if you just have gravy or fried fish, feel free to add it to a plate of fried rolled oats. And if there is no side dish, just sprinkle the Skirli with herbs, or eat the dish without any additives. It is already very tasty and perfectly satisfies hunger.
Scottish Skirley Recipe
What is needed for Skirly
for 4-5 servings
- Instant oat flakes – 200 g (=2 cups + 2 teaspoons);
- Onion – 1 piece;
- Butter – 175 g (5/8 pack = half a pack + a quarter from the other half);
- Fresh or dried thyme - to taste (we use 1 teaspoon). If you don't like thyme, use basil.;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook Skirli
- Cut the onion into thin half rings.
- In a large frying pan, melt the butter and sauté the onion for 2 minutes.
- Add oatmeal to onion. Season with pepper and thyme. Mix everything and add salt. Fry, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes.
I added fried minced meat to Skirly. It was delicious.
This Scottish porridge is quite tasty. And the family is perplexed - what did they feed them?
If you decide to cook Skirli with minced meat, then you need to start with this, because the gravy takes about 40 minutes to prepare.
Minced gravy recipe for Skirli
What you need for minced meat gravy
- Any minced meat (chicken, pork, beef, pork-beef, minced turkey);
- Onions – 2 heads;
- Butter – 25 g;
- Meat broth (or water) – 0.5 l (2 cups);
- Salt and pepper to taste.
How to prepare minced meat gravy for Skirli
- Finely chop the onion (or into quarters of rings). Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the onion in it for 4 minutes over medium heat.
- Add the minced meat to the onion, increase the heat and fry, stirring, for 8 minutes.
- Pour in the broth, salt and pepper. Simmer uncovered over low heat for 30 minutes.
10 minutes before the end of stewing, start cooking Skirli so that both dishes ripen at the same time. Place the porridge on a plate and pour the gravy over it.
Ready-made Skirli with minced meat gravy.
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out of 5) I never thought that there were so many people who like to fry oatmeal. And how many recipes! I will write about the most worthy ones. They're simple and cheap, so experimenting with these products will cost you next to nothing. But what an opportunity to surprise your family!
Ingredients:
Not long ago I learned about the bottom dish - it’s simple to the point of disgrace. It tastes like kozinaki or grilled meat. And besides, it’s completely natural, which is something you don’t buy in a store every day.
Preparation:
1. Grease a frying pan with oil, heat it up, pour in the cereal and sugar.
2. Turn the heat to medium and start frying, without stopping stirring. By the way, the sugar may not completely dissolve, and some of it may form into whitish lumps. But this is not scary - it will not affect the taste, but will only diversify the finished homogeneity of our grillage.
3. When the sugar has completely melted and the flakes have acquired a golden hue, remove them from the frying pan onto a plate (if you want to throw a piece into your mouth straight from the frying pan, be careful, they are devilishly hot!).
By the way, in my photo, the flakes are a little overexposed - no longer yellow, but brownish. This is not an acquired taste - caramel of this color has a bitter aftertaste. But in our family they love it that way. If you want exactly sweet caramel, then as soon as individual parts of the flakes turn yellow, immediately turn off the frying pan. Remember that it will remain hot for a while and warm your cereal.
There is no need to coat the plate with oil - the flakes will not stick.
It takes up to 10 minutes to do everything.
4. We wait until our kazinak cools down and sticks together. All! We break it into pieces and treat it to our relatives.
Fill the pan with water immediately after cooking, as particles of sticky caramel will remain on it. If it hardens, it will be very difficult to wash this caramel.
These toasted flakes can be eaten just like that, or you can decorate cakes with them - sprinkle the top of the cake or make thin crispy grilled layers between the cake layers. You can even experiment and add toasted flakes to the dough to imitate nuts.
And continuing the theme of toasted oatmeal is a hearty Scottish recipe for Skirlie.
1. Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the onion cut into half rings in it for about two minutes.
2. Pour into a frying pan, add salt, season and fry for about five minutes.
3. Serve as a side dish for meat (standardly in Scotland, skirley is served with fried minced meat).
The cooking method is the same, the ingredients are similar, but the dishes are completely different - a crispy delicacy, homemade grilled meat and soft, aromatic porridge. Try it!
And bon appetit!
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Recipe for fried rolled oats with sugar, nuts and candied fruits in a frying pan.
This is a very simple recipe for an unusually tasty delicacy from our childhood. It was published a long time ago in the Soviet magazine “Family and School”. And, of course, many people remember him. But for newcomers, the very first reaction is usually distrust, but this recipe has been tested for many years and decades. This means you just need to take a risk and try at least once.
I remembered this recipe, of course, when I saw it on a culinary forum in one discussion. There were a lot of confirming comments and advice from my peers, so I read everything, took it into account and am conveying everything exactly to you all.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups - rolled oats or pearl barley
- 0.5 cups - sugar.
Cooking fried rolled oats in a frying pan
So here's the basic recipe. Take a dry frying pan and pour 2 cups of cereal into it " Hercules"or regular washed pearl barley, then add half a glass or glass Sahara, put on medium heat and, stirring constantly, fry until the sugar begins to melt and the mixture acquires a golden brown color. Be careful not to overcook it, otherwise it won’t be tasty later. Pour the mixture into a plate, break into pieces and let cool.
Now options and advice from experienced people.
“You can add a little butter and then the mixture will be softer. For flavor variety, you can add vanillin or vanillin sugar. These crisps can be sprinkled on cakes, desserts, cottage cheese, sweet porridge, and ice cream.”
“And the “specialists” of our time mixed sour cream with sugar and boiled it until they got something like toffee, it was very tasty.”
“My mother made these sweets for me when I was a child, only she put a teaspoon on a greased baking sheet like pancakes, and when they cooled down, we pressed them off, in my childhood these sweets were called GRILLAGE.”
“I add cream, vanilla sugar + sugar to taste to the cottage cheese, put some in a glass bowl (salad bowl), the next layer is blue and green grapes cut in half (seedless) to cover the cottage cheese, the next layer is cottage cheese and top it all with crisps.”
“When you fry the crisps, add a spoonful of butter, then they don’t stick together and turn out crumbly. Children love it! both tasty and healthy!”
About 2 cups of cereal per 0.5 cup of sugar. It is approximately; in principle, you can “to taste”, “for an amateur” or “by eye”, if you can.
"Kazinaki"
- 7 tbsp Hercules
- 10 tbsp. Sahara
- 3 tbsp. rast. oils
Place everything in a frying pan and fry until rolled oats brown. After removing from the pan, you can add vanilla, nutmeg, cumin or cinnamon. Pour the whole mass into a bowl and add separately roasted (crush lightly with a rolling pin) hazelnuts, peanuts, walnuts, peeled and toasted sunflower seeds - this is what we did in childhood. I would like to note that you need to take fine-grained sugar. There were also “school” and “premiere” candies (if anyone remembers) - they are very similar to the sherbet that is now sold in stores. So: grate 300 g of these sweets and mix with toasted hot cereal - 2 tbsp. + 2 tbsp. l. butter + vanillin. Knead the whole mass well with your hands, compact it in a bowl and after an hour you can cut it into “sweets”. Well... almost halva with nuts - we (the children of that time) thought so.”
« Only he also adds half a glass of refined (odorless) sunflower oil. And with a knife, until the mass has cooled down, he forms different figures - squares, diamonds ... And recently he made this recipe only from nuts - peanuts - in general it turned out SOOO tasty! Bon appetit!"
“To prevent the sugar from burning, you need to stir constantly and at the first sign of burning, immediately remove the pan from the heat and immediately pour the mixture into another bowl, and fill the pan with water.”
“And if you grease a frying pan with oil, lay out apples, sprinkle fried cereal with sugar on top and pour milk and eggs over it all, you’ll get a delicious charlotte.”
“We also prepare sweet corn, soybeans, and rice (only the grains need to be soaked first to swell, and then dried).
« Can I also have orange peels in sugar?
“You can make cookies: fry 2 cups of oatmeal in the oven, cool. add 1 raw egg, half a glass of sugar and chopped walnuts. Mix everything and place a teaspoon on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown. But make sure it’s not raw.”
Well, since we’re remembering our childhood again here, here’s a song from there... from “Beautiful Far Away...”
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