Chestnut is a kind of food that many people like to eat, especially in winter, when fried with sugar, it is very famous and has good nutritional value. Eating some properly at ordinary times is also good for your health, but chestnuts are delicious and hard to peel, which is also objective. In fact, chestnuts can be peeled well by certain methods, such as salt water cooking and pressure cooker cooking.

How to cook chestnuts and peel them?

1, chestnut shell method 1: cook with salt water.

Boiling chestnuts with salt water can help chestnuts peel quickly. The specific operation is: firstly, wash chestnuts with clear water to remove the fluff in the shell. After washing, cut a hole in the middle of the chestnuts with a knife, then put it in salt water and cook for four or five minutes with slow fire. Chestnut shells and skins can be quickly removed when it is hot.

2. Chestnut hulling method 1: Cook in a rice cooker.

Like the above method, after the chestnuts are washed, cut a hole and put it directly in the rice cooker for dry cooking without adding anything. Just press the cooking button, and after the button jumps, the chestnuts can be taken out, and it is easy to peel and peel. However, because chestnuts are ripe at this time, they are easy to break when peeling, so be careful when shelling in this way.

3, chestnut shelling method 1: pressure cooker cooking.

Similarly, chestnuts need to be washed, cut and dried in a pressure cooker without adding water or anything else. After the pressure cooker is inflated, it can be turned off in two to three minutes, and it is easier to take it out and peel it. But this method is difficult to master the temperature, but it is fast and convenient.

4, chestnut shelling method 1: microwave cooking.

Cooking chestnuts in the microwave oven is the fastest and best way to shell. Chestnuts cooked in this way are not only easy to shell, but also have a particularly beautiful color. The method is: after washing chestnuts, cut a hole, put it into a bowl, add a lid, and then put it in the microwave oven together with the bowl for heating. It is very convenient to take out chestnuts after heating and peel them while they are hot.

The above four methods of cooking chestnuts can make chestnuts easy to shell, but among these four methods, microwave cooking is more convenient and faster, and the peeled chestnuts are good in color and not fragile, which is the most ideal method. If you don't have friends in the microwave oven at home, it is a good way to cook chestnuts with salt water, and the chestnuts after shelling are not fragile. However, if you want to be lazy, using rice cookers and pressure cookers can also make chestnuts easy to shell, but chestnuts are easy to break after being cooked like this, so you need to be careful not to make the chestnuts look rotten when peeling.