How to make chestnuts

1. Black-bone chicken and chestnut nourishing soup

Ingredients: 1 black-bone chicken, 200 grams of chestnuts, 15 red dates, appropriate amount of wolfberry, 1 hour of ginger piece.

Method: Cut the black-bone chicken into pieces and put them into cold water. Remove after the water boils. Pour half a pot of hot water into the casserole, add the blanched black-bone chicken, add ginger slices, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer. After stewing the black-bone chicken for half an hour, add the chestnuts. After stewing for half an hour, add the red dates and wolfberry (soak the red dates and wolfberry in warm water for a while), simmer for another half an hour, and finally add salt. It is suitable for people with physical weakness, blood deficiency, insufficient liver and kidney, and unhealthy spleen and stomach.

2. Chestnut, Sweet Potato and Pork Ribs Soup

Ingredients: 400 grams of chestnuts (shelled), appropriate amount of sweet potatoes, two ribs, 400 grams of red dates, appropriate amount of ginger, and water.

Method: Wash the spareribs, cut into pieces, boil in water, remove and set aside. Peel and coat the chestnuts; peel the sweet potatoes and cut into large pieces. Wash the red dates, pat them flat and remove the cores. Boil water, add ribs, chestnuts, red dates and ginger slices, simmer over high heat for 20 minutes, then turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour, add sweet potato cubes, simmer for another 20 minutes, season with salt and serve. It nourishes qi and spleen, nourishes yin and kidneys, strengthens muscles and bones, and relieves constipation and detoxifies.

3. Chestnut roasted local chicken

Ingredients: half a local chicken, ginger, chives, coriander, more than ten chestnuts, dark soy sauce, sugar, oil, garlic, raw Pump the right amount.

Method: Clean and rinse the internal organs of the native chicken and cut into pieces for later use. Heat oil in a pan, sauté the garlic until fragrant, pour in the chicken pieces and stir-fry over high heat until they change color, add an appropriate amount of dark soy sauce and sugar to evenly color, add an appropriate amount of water to cover the chicken pieces, add chestnuts and ginger slices, and add an appropriate amount of raw Bring to a boil, then simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes until the chestnut powder is glutinous, sprinkle in chives and coriander, and reduce the juice over high heat.

How to peel chestnuts

1. Hot water soaking method

We first wash the selected chestnuts and put them into a container, add a little salt, Submerge in boiling water and cover the pot. After 5 minutes, take out the chestnuts and cut them open. The chestnut skin will fall off together with the chestnut shell. This method saves time and effort by removing the chestnut skin.

2. Stirring method with chopsticks

Cut the chestnuts into two halves, remove the shells and put them into a basin. Add boiling water to soak for a while and stir with chopsticks. The skin of the chestnuts will mix with the chestnuts. The flesh breaks away. The soaking time cannot be too long, otherwise it will affect the nutritional content of chestnuts.

3. Refrigerator freezing method

After the chestnuts are cooked, cool them and put them in the refrigerator for two hours to separate the shell and meat. In this way, the chestnut skin is peeled off quickly and the chestnut meat is intact.

The probability of success of this method is relatively high, so it is recommended that everyone use this method. In fact, it uses the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to separate the skin and meat.

4. Microwave heating method

Cut the outer shell of the purchased raw chestnuts with scissors and heat them in the microwave at high temperature for 30 seconds. The inner layer of skin and meat will be Automatically disengage. Before using this method to remove chestnut coating, be sure to cut the shell, otherwise it may cause the microwave oven to malfunction.