Lightly Toasted Oatmeal

Shamish

Following a recipe for cooking a turkey i know about 3 weeks late but our was broken and just got a new one

Can anybody tell me the difference between normal oats and medium lightly toasted oatmeal?

It's needed for the stuffing and i could only see the normal stuff.

Thanks

Shamish

Shamish

For some reason my post aint appeared :S

I said,

Does anybody know the difference between normal oatmeal and medium lightly toasted oatmeal?

I need it for a stuffing receipie so we can finally have our turkey now that we have a working oven LOL.

Thanks

Shamish

thriftlady_2

I've just lost a post too

Porridge oat are rolled oats. They look like squashed grains of oats. They're usually sold with the cereals in supermarkets.

Oatmeal has been ground to a flour-like consistency. It is not as fine as wheatflour and comes in several grades. There's fine oatmeal, medium, pinhead and coarse oatmeal. For a stuffing medium oatmeal sounds about right. I don't think you can buy it toasted. To toast it put it in a frying pan and watch it like a hawk, it burns easily.

I use it for coating herring fillets

Seakay

Oatmeal is usally available in 3 types, course (or pinhead), medium or fine ground; the toasting you will probably have to do yourself, in a dry fring pan or on a baking sheet under a grill set to low. A friyng pan over a low light is probably easier to see when the oatmeal is done - keep stirring or shaking it around until the colour changes slightly, it's better underdone than overdone as that usually means burnt!

Shamish

For some reason my post aint appeared :S

I said,

Does anybody know the difference between normal oatmeal and medium lightly toasted oatmeal?

I need it for a stuffing receipie so we can finally have our turkey now that we have a working oven LOL.

Thanks

Shamish

Shamish

Thanks i bought rolled oats doh!

Have to rush out and buy the correct stuff thanks

Queenie

Shamish wrote:

Thanks i bought rolled oats doh!

Have to rush out and buy the correct stuff thanks

No, you don't need to if you have a food processor - just process the oats in short bursts until it resembles fine breadcrumbs; then you can 'toast' them in the frying pan

Shamish

Thanks Queenie,

Thought that was maybe the case but sent the wife out for some anyway just to be on the safe side

Turkey now cooking away thanks