15 minutes. Cooking chestnuts is usually boiled in a pot of water and cooked for about 15 minutes, but if it is cold water in the pot, you need to cook for about 20 minutes is better. Chestnuts, also known as chestnuts, cooking method is divided into two kinds of hot and cold water in the pot:

1, cold water in the pot to cook the chestnuts advantages of the meat is more soft and glutinous, suitable for the elderly and children to eat, but also better peeling, but the disadvantage is that the taste is too powdery and not sweet.

2, hot water in the pot to cook the chestnut advantage is more sweet and savory taste, and cooking time will be shorter, so the most commonly used is the first hot water in the pot for the best.

Cooking chestnut skills:

(1) raw chestnuts can be eaten, but must be fresh chestnuts, if you buy the old chestnuts may have been worms, can not regenerate eat. Judge the old and new is also very simple, first look at the color, black, no light is the old chestnut, followed by smell, there is no fragrance chestnut flavor is the old chestnut, and finally try to crack one, if it is very dry very small is also the old chestnut.

(2) cooking chestnuts, you can first give the chestnuts an even cut, and then add the right amount of salt in the water to improve the electrolytes of the water, so that when cooking chestnuts chestnuts can be cooked faster soft, but also easier to peel the shell.

(3) Cooking chestnuts can not be cooked too long, whether it is cold water in the pot or hot water, otherwise the flavor of the chestnuts will cook out, the taste is too powdery, and not sweet.