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rolled oats

rolled oats

1 2.0
Grains that are steamed and flattened to make porridge or granola
  • noun
  • /roʊld oʊts/
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  • Mixing rolled oats with yogurt creates a delicious and healthy snack.

Examples

  • Traditionally, it is made from rolled oats, dried fruits, and nuts.

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  • I enjoy cold rolled oats with milk and raisins, and in the winter, I make cooked cereal.

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  • So I add half a cup of rolled oats to each glass.

  • Yesterday you had rolled oats with water on their own.

  • Add the rolled oats and mix until well incorporated.

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  • And when I was told that, oh, you can get more protein in your oatmeal, I'm like, yeah, no, I will be making my rolled oats with half milk and half water.

  • I'm about to go out and buy some Quaker oats or any rolled oats I can find at this point to make my own cereal.

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  • Add fiber in the form of flax seeds, chia seeds, rolled oats, or wheat germ.

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  • For a nutritious breakfast, I often prepare oatmeal using rolled oats and fresh fruit.

  • To make the cookies chewy, add some rolled oats into the dough along with chocolate chips.

How Ready

cold cereal
1 1.0
cereal
195 1.0
muesli
3 3.4
rolled oats
1 2.0

Surface Forms

rolled oats singular
rolled oats plural
rolled oat singular

Morphology

rolled + oat

The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'rolled' describes a processing action applied to 'oats', so a learner can infer these are oats that have been rolled/flattened into flakes. This kitchen/food sense is a straightforward modifier-noun combination and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will very likely grasp the meaning.

Etymology

Rolled oats comes from the way whole oats are steamed and pressed flat into thin flakes. The word rolled gives the picture of oats being flattened, so the name means oats made this way for 'porridge' and baking.