Autumn comes, a lot of chestnuts ripe on the market, chestnuts are also popular friends are favorite food, also known as the "king of dried fruit". Because the nutritional value of chestnuts is very high, do not look at a small one, but rich in protein and vitamins, including vitamin C content is more than a dozen times more than apples, very exaggerated, and there are also a lot of minerals, higher than the average fruit, the nutritional value of chestnuts is not low. We commonly eat chestnuts fried chestnuts, chestnuts stewed chicken, etc., although the chestnuts are indeed delicious, but eat some effort, because the raw chestnuts is too difficult to peel the shells, many people have said that peeling the shells peeling to hand pain. Today I want to share with you 4 peeling chestnut shells small trick, after learning chestnut shells easily peeled off, a moment will be able to peel a big bowl, convenient and practical. Let's take a look!

1. cross knife cut method: chestnuts ready, all on the cutting board, with a knife in the chestnut shells above a cross shape, all cut and standby. Add a pot of water in the pot, high heat boil chestnuts into the pot to start cooking, time in two minutes or so is more appropriate (short time shells did not open, long time chestnuts cooked and more difficult to peel), two minutes or so off the fire. Fish out all the chestnuts with a slotted spoon and put them into an empty pot to dry for a while, as long as they are not hot, you can start peeling the shells. You can see that this time the chestnut shell has become much softer, and gently pull the gap, the shell is peeled off, very simple and fast, two minutes can peel a big bowl.

2. Microwave heating method: microwave ovens are now common household appliances in many families, usually used to heat a dish instructions are very convenient. Of course the microwave can also come to help us shelling. We put all the chestnuts, shell with a knife to cut a small opening, and then put all the chestnuts into the microwave oven to heat, after heating the chestnuts in the water will evaporate, chestnut shells will become more brittle, and fruit velvet these basically and shells will not be adhesion, after heating, take out very easy to peel. (Before heating must be in the shell of the chestnut first cut mouth, otherwise it is very dangerous)

3. Salt water soaking method: chestnuts boiled in water is actually a very common way to eat, boiled chestnuts eat sweet and soft, not soft and not hard is very delicious. We first find a large bowl, add enough water and salt, stir well until the salt completely melted all the chestnuts all into a large bowl, mix well and then placed, such as chestnuts soaked in salt water for at least 10 minutes, plenty of time can be soaked for a while. Soak for about ten minutes to take out the chestnut shells can feel soft, this time we can gently pinch, it is easy to peel. If you want to eat boiled, you can continue to cook with water, but salt water soaked chestnut shells have been very good peeling.

4. Sun exposure method: If the chestnuts are not in a hurry to eat, it happens to be the sun is relatively large, you can use this method. Find a clean gauze spread on the ground, put all the chestnuts on the gauze, after the sun, the chestnuts will be completely evaporated inside the water, but this can not be used in the shell of the cut mouth, sometimes if the sun is relatively large, chestnut shells will also be the sun's "blasted", so it's very good to peel, and the shell and the inside of the layer of skin! will not stick at all. After exposure to the sun after the chestnuts eat more crispy, and stored time will be longer.