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Chowhounds' most creative ideas for topping savory oatmeal, as discussed on our Home Cooking board.
Sorta Healthy, Sorta Cajun
"I just had some with steamed broccoli, a bit of shredded mozzarella and some Tony's [Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning]." —Laurawnm
When I saw this thread, I wondered "why not porridge congee?". This combines my Scottish heritage with my love of good food everywhere. Great ideas.
oh thank god - i am so relieved to find likeminded folks. i'm chinese and i grew up eating oatmeal w/ soy sauce.
I've always loved my oatmeal with miso dressing and hot sauce. Call me crazy!
I get the five-minute oatmeal feathery and pretty dry then do anything I'd do with polenta. Topping it with a sauteed hash of peppers, mushrooms and garlic works very well. Easy standby is asiago and black pepper. Straying from the spirit, but adding peanut butter makes a very nice sludge.
there is a dish in the cincinnati area called 'goetta'. it is steel cut oats cooked with meat/sausage, onions and bay. you can eat it at that point (not common at all) but is more traditionally cooled/congealed, sliced and fried.
There's a new kind of oat (cavena nuda) that is being called rice (rice of the prairies). I buy it at a store called the Bulk Barn in Canada. I cook it in the crock pot for a long time and it comes out very creamy, a bit like risotto. So far I have served it where I would serve rice, but I think it could be used as oatmeal. It has good nutritional properties.
When I worked up in the North, among the Inuit, they used to use the water leftover from boiling wild geese and other game birds to boil up oatmeal. It was served on the runny side and salted. It was really, really good!
Recently it dawned on me that oatmeal can be used exactly like rice. My favorite savory combo at the moment is steel-cut oats with Francis Lam's slow-cooked greens (http://www.salon.com/food/recipes/2010/11/18/slow_sauteed_greens_recipe) and scrambled egg. (Another option in a pinch is wilted spinach and a hard-cooked egg. Pretty much any combination of greens and eggs works for me!)