Scottish Oatcakes
Scottish oatcakes are traditional cookies made from healthy oatmeal and cooked in a cast iron skillet. Eat them fresh with cheese, butter, or jam, or make ahead and serve at breakfast or for a snack. Enjoy the taste of Scotland with these simple oatcakes!
Servings: 18 oatcakes
Calories: 45kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups steel-cut or rolled oats or Scottish oatmeal
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾-1 cup boiling water
Instructions
- Grind steel-cut or rolled oats in a food processor or blender until it is the texture of cornmeal. (Skip this if you're using the already ground Scottish oatmeal.) Measure out 1⅔ cups (235g), and set aside the extra for dusting.
- Pour the ground oats into a mixing bowl and add the butter, salt, and baking soda. Gradually stir in enough boiling water until a pasty, but not sticky, dough is formed and the mix is well blended.
- Turn out the dough onto a surface lightly dusted with some of the extra oatmeal. Knead gently a few times, then roll out the dough to 3-5 mm thick. Cut the dough into rounds with a 2½ inch cutter, re-rolling the scraps as needed.
- Heat a 10-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat until hot, then lightly butter it and evenly space 6-7 oatcakes in it. Cook them for 10-15 minutes on each side, then remove to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with the remaining ones.
- Alternatively, place them on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375°F oven for 30 minutes, flipping them after 20 minutes.
- Serve them warm or room temperature with butter, jam, cheese, chutney, or any desired topping.
Notes
- Store leftovers at room temperature in a metal cookie tin to keep them crisp.
- Oatcakes are traditionally cooked on the griddle (cast iron skillet) on only one side, then toasted over the fire on the other. Feel free to toast them in a toaster to simulate this effect.
- Experiment with using different textures of ground oatmeal to get various results.
- Keep the heat in the skillet on medium-low so the oatcakes cook more in the center without burning the outside.
Nutrition
Serving: 1oatcake | Calories: 45kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 42mg | Potassium: 28mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 59IU | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 0.3mg
