Oatmeal

Also called oat meal

Oatmeal comes from the seeds of a cereal grain. Cooks bake, simmer, or dry-toast it, use it raw, or add it to thicken dishes. It pairs with milk, sugar, raisins, nuts, and cinnamon.

Category: Grains, flours & pasta
Part used: Seed
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Poland
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Yonygg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use oatmeal

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Boil simmer
Dry toast
Raw
Thicken

Cooking with it

Thick old-fashioned rolled oats may take longer to cook.

Goes well with

On the table

Dishes made with oatmeal

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Sour rye soup
Poland

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

Around the world

What oatmeal is called

Names in 32 languages, from Wikidata.

Italian
farina d'avena · ingrediente a base di avena
Dutch
haver
Turkish
yulaf ezmesi
Russian
овсянка · овсяная каша · овсяные зёрна · овсяная крупа
Polish
kasza owsiana
Arabic
دقيق الشوفان · دقيق شوفان · شوفان
Persian
بلغور جو دوسر
Hebrew
שבבי שיבולת שועל · קמח שיבולת שועל
Hindi
जई का दलिया
Chinese
燕麥片 · 麥皮 · 麦片
Japanese
オートミール
Korean
오트밀

Show all 32 languages

Afrikaans
hawermout
Armenian
վարսակաձավար
Azerbaijani
vələmir yarması
Belarusian
аўсяная мука
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
аўсяная мука
Betawi
hapermut
Cantonese
麥皮
Catalan
farina de civada
Cheyenne
ho'sâhtsenáénâhéno
Czech
ovesné vločky
Danish
havregryn
Esperanto
platigita avena grio
hyw
վարսակով նախուտեստ
Ido
gruelo
Indonesian
havermut
Javanese
oatmeal
Latvian
auzu pārslas
Old English
ātemǣl · Ātmǣl
Simplified Chinese
燕麦片
Slovenian
ovseni kosmiči · ovsena kaša · sestavina na osnovi ovsa · beli oves
Swedish
havregryn
Traditional Chinese
燕麥片
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
燕麥片
Ukrainian
вівсянка · вівсяне борошно

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: Q2089240

Photos