The easiest way is to boil the water and put it in a pot. Depending on the size, it usually takes about 4 minutes to boil, and the pot is just an ordinary pot.
I don't know which method is the best for peeling chestnuts. It needs to be practiced.
1. First, cut open the chestnut shell with a knife, then boil the chestnut in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, then take it out and soak it in cold water for 3-5 minutes. At this time, it is easy to peel the chestnut with a fingernail or a knife.
2. Soak the chestnuts in boiling water, shell all two chestnuts, put them in a pot, soak them in boiling water and stir them with chopsticks, and the chestnut film will be removed.
3. Pack chestnuts in plastic bags and put them in the freezer. After freezing for 3 days, take it out and thaw it. After 1 hour, cut it with a kitchen knife (only 1 knife), and the fur attached to the chestnut will fall off when it is gently torn.
nowadays, the stalls selling chestnuts in the vegetable market are booming day by day. There are all kinds of shells, cracked shells and hard shells.
Chestnut is not only sweet and palatable, but also has the effects of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening tendons, and promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Therefore, Su Zhe, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in "Serving Chestnuts" that "getting old will add to waist and foot diseases, and Shan Weng will pass on the prescription when serving chestnuts." The chanting. In addition to traditional home-cooked delicacies such as sugar-fried chestnuts, osmanthus chestnut soup, chestnut cake, chestnut chicken, braised pork of chestnuts and fried chestnuts with green onions for leisure snacks, chestnuts can also be cooked as follows:
Steamed pork with chestnuts
This is a famous traditional dish in Hangzhou, where pork belly with the width of index finger and the size of half a playing card is wrapped in pickled with soy sauce, sugar and wine for two hours. This dish is golden and bright in color, fat but not greasy in mouth, and sweet and fragrant in chestnut mud.
Chestnut with scallion oil
This is a simple and delicious home-cooked dish. Shell and peel chestnuts, cook them until they are soft and not broken, pour them into a frying pan, stir fry quickly, then pour in marinade mixed with starch, salt and monosodium glutamate in advance, continue to stir fry until the marinade becomes thick, sprinkle chopped green onion, and then get out of the pan and sit down. This dish is chestnut brown and green, sweet, salty and soft, delicious and palatable.
Chestnut paste
This is a beet. Boil chestnut until crisp, press it into mud, stir-fry it in a clear oil pan, and pour in a little clear oil and white sugar with a thumb-sized spoon while frying until the chestnut mud is moist and sweet, and then serve. Chestnut mud is yellow, brown and shiny, sweet but not greasy, and has the charm of chestnut cake.
Braised pork with chestnut
Ingredients: ginger, garlic, pepper, star anise pork belly and chestnut
Practice:
1. Add oil to a wok and stir-fry several ingredients in the picture.
2. Put the meat in the pan and stir fry for a few times, and then add cooking wine to continue stirring. Stir-fry with soy sauce and salt, then add water and simmer.
3. When the meat is almost stewed, put the chestnut in the pot and then stew. When it's all cooked, collect the juice with high fire and add chicken essence and sugar to the pan!
Related links: Why are chestnuts fried with sugar?
Sugar-fried chestnuts are on the market, and the sugar used for sugar-fried chestnuts won't enter the chestnuts at all, which is useless to increase the sweetness. Isn't it a waste? But why is chestnut fried with sugar? Who is so stupid? Why not stir-fry with sand like other roasted seeds and nuts, or simply sell boiled chestnuts.
Actually, the reason why sugar is used to stir-fry chestnuts is purely for the convenience of eating. Maybe you think that sugar-fried chestnuts feel a little sticky to your hands, but because of sticky hands, they can also stick to other things. Chestnuts have a high starch content and two layers of skin, so it is inevitable that crumbs will fall off when eating. The outer layer of sugar can just stick the crumbs here, which makes us eat healthily and avoid littering everywhere. What's more, chestnuts coated with sugar look brighter.
that's the magic of sugar, that's all.