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Groat

A groat is the kernel of a cereal grain. Cooks bake, boil, or simmer groats.

Part used
Kernel
Groat, whole

Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use groat

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer

Preparing it

Groats are often soaked before cooking to make them easier to chew.

On the table

Dishes made with groat

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.
  • Kaszotto

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include groat.

Around the world

What groat is called

Names in 42 languages, from Wikidata.
  • French

    gruau · farine de gruau

  • Italian

    granella

  • Portuguese

    sêmea

  • German

    Grütze

  • Dutch

    grutten

  • Greek

    πλιγούρι · πλιγούρι (κόκκος)

  • Turkish

    krupa

  • Russian

    крупа · сечка · крупы

  • Polish

    kasza

  • Arabic

    جريش خشن · الجريش الخشن

  • Persian

    بلغور (دانه)

  • Hebrew

    גריסים · גריסי פנינה

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  • Armenian

    ձավար

  • Azerbaijani

    yarma

  • Bashkir

    ярма

  • Basque

    solteko salgai

  • Belarusian

    крупы

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    крупы

  • Breton

    brignen

  • Cantonese

    麥米

  • Chinese

    麦米

  • Chuvash

    тырпул

  • Czech

    kroupy

  • Esperanto

    grio

  • Estonian

    tangud

  • Galician

    gran

  • Hungarian

    dara

  • Icelandic

    klíðislaust korn

  • Irish

    piocuaran · coirce scilligthe

  • Japanese

    ひき割り · 穀物のひき割り · 小麦のひき割り · 挽き割り

  • Javanese

    groat

  • Kazakh

    жарма дақылы · жарма (крупа)

  • Korean

    알곡 · 쌀

  • Latvian

    putraimi

  • Lithuanian

    kruopos

  • Ossetic

    къурупа

  • Samogitian

    kroupā

  • sjd

    сӯрэм

  • Slovenian

    drobljenec

  • Swedish

    semolina

  • Tatar

    ярма

  • Ukrainian

    крупа

  • Welsh

    Rhynion · rhynion · Talch · talch

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1436715

Photos

Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons