What Can I Make With Steel Cut Oats?

[maddycat]

I just bought a bag of Bob's Red Mill gluten-free steel cut oats. I have never had them before (I've only baked/cooked with rolled oats). What can I make with them other than basic hot cereal? Can they be used for cookies?

Thanks,

Marcia

[missy'smom]

I just got some as a sample. I use the rolled oats in baking, but steel cut will react differently I think. My guess is that they won't absorb moisture as well and may not soften up as easily. You may be able to add cooked steel cut oats to things. I used to add a cooked mulitgrain cereal to pancakes, just followed the regular recipe and folded in maybe a 1/4 c. of the thick cooked cereal. You don't want to add cereal that is too wet. I see alot of muffin recipes that call for a cooked cereal. Bob's has one on the bag of Mighty Tasty Hot cereal and it may be on their website as well.

[cruelshoes]

I don't think they would work well in cookies. I think they would stay too hard. Open Original Shared Linkfrom the Bob's Red Mill website to give you other ideas on how to use them.

[bakingbarb]

Can you grind them a bit in the blender then you could use them for flour or such.

Also you can presoak any grain in buttermilk and use it for bread. SIGH I could have told you how to do this before I went gluten free, I have no idea how to do it this way. LOL

I would have said soak some in buttermilk then add some fat, sugar, salt, yeast and some flour. So I guess I'm not much help!