Ingredients
One pound of chestnuts
One pound of water
Methods/steps
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Every time in the golden autumn, sugar-fried chestnut shops that have been dormant for a year are re-opened. Every time you pass by, you will be attracted by the tangy sweet fragrance and can't help but buy a bag to satisfy your craving.
There are many ways to make chestnuts. Here I will talk about the simplest one first.
First clean the chestnuts and pick out those with insect eyes and throw them away.
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Wash the chestnuts with water and salt. The salt has a certain disinfection effect. After washing, drain the water and put it aside. Get ready to cook in the pot. Just cover the chestnuts with water.
Turn off the heat 5 minutes after boiling. As the saying goes, boil for 70% and simmer for 30%.
In fact, chestnuts are now edible. Sweet!
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But it is not convenient to peel the chestnuts this way.
You can take it out, drain the water, and put it in an electric baking pan to remove the excess water.
This kind of chestnuts will not be very dry but will not lose its taste.
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If you like the kind sold outside, you can cut open the cleaned chestnuts and put them in the microwave oven 6 Minutes, then apply honey or sugar water and post on Weibo for 5 minutes before eating.
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There are many ways to eat chestnuts, including stew, porridge and snacks.
These must be explored slowly by individuals.
Only one will be introduced below:
Chestnut and coconut millet cake
Ingredients: 250 grams of millet, 5 chestnuts, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 2 tablespoons of coconut.
Method:
1 Wash the millet and soak it in cold water for half a day.
2Crush the cooked chestnuts
3Cook the millet and chestnuts in a small rice cooker with a little water.
4 Put the sugar into the cooked chestnut millet and mix thoroughly to form a rice cake mixture.
5 Use a spoon to put the rice cake ingredients into a deeper mold, compact it, and then gently knock it out to make millet cake.
6. Roll the rows of millet cakes in coconut until the surface of the millet cakes is evenly coated with a layer of coconut.
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Notes
New chestnuts generally have more fluff at the end.
Look for bug eyes.