Ingredients: ribs, chestnuts

Accessories: onion, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, red pepper, rock sugar, cooking wine, soy sauce and salt.

1. Wash the ribs with clear water and soak them for fifteen minutes. After washing the chestnuts, cut a cross from them with scissors.

2. Put salt in the pot, pour chestnuts in and cook for ten minutes.

3. Pour the washed ribs into the pot, add two spoonfuls of soy sauce, and boil the onion and ginger slices.

4. After boiling, skim off the floating foam with a spoon and cook the ribs for 20 minutes.

5. Peel the chestnuts while they are hot, rinse the ribs with clear water for later use, and slowly melt in a small fire in a crystal sugar exothermic pot.

6. Pour in the ribs and stir-fry until golden brown, then stir-fry onion, ginger, pepper, star anise, fragrant leaves and cinnamon.

7. Add boiling water to the pot to boil, add 3 spoonfuls of soy sauce, and pour a spoonful of cooking wine into chestnuts to stew for 50 minutes.

8. Finally, thicken the soup, add a spoonful of salt and stir well.