Sweet fried chestnuts sweet pink sticky, a bite, but outside to buy too expensive, many people like to eat will buy some fresh chestnuts, home to do their own. In addition to making sweet fried chestnuts, chestnuts and chicken burned together is also very delicious. Fresh chestnuts have a sweet flavor and can be eaten directly after boiling them in water.
Cooking chestnuts is easy, but many people can't cook them well, and although they are cooked, they are hard to peel off the shells. Barely peeled off, the chestnut meat is still stained with a layer of skin, very affect the taste.
Today I share with you the skills of cooking chestnuts, many people use the wrong method, resulting in chestnuts difficult to shell.
When cooking chestnuts, it is wrong to cook them directly with water, which is a common mistake made by most people. Here to teach you the correct method, add 1 step, chestnuts cooked automatically open smile, shells a break on the fall, do not stain the skin.
Cooking chestnuts
1, selection
Want chestnuts are delicious and good cooking, you have to be able to pick good chestnuts. Some of the chestnuts have been empty or bad, with a pinch of chestnut shells, if more hard, elasticity is very good, pressed down to recover, and the amplitude is very small, indicating that the chestnuts are relatively fresh, chestnut meat is also more, very full.
If you press down on a nest, can not be restored, that chestnut is not fresh, and chestnut meat is very little.
2, processing
In my hometown, chestnuts are also called hairy chestnuts, because it is in the tree when there is a layer of hairy shell, but in the picking has been removed, we often see chestnuts.
Even so, the rest of the chestnut also has a layer of shell, a layer of membrane coat, if you do not master the correct method, it is difficult to peel the shell after cooking, the membrane coat will also be adhered to the chestnut meat. Chestnuts cleaned, with a kitchen knife in the chestnut shell cut a small opening, and then boiled with water, cooked chestnuts heat expansion, chestnut shells on the automatic opening, the film coat will not stick.
3, cooked
Cooking pot pour into the amount of water, add a spoonful of salt and stir well, pour the chestnuts after the fire to cook, boil and continue to cook for 20 minutes, the chestnuts are cooked. If you use a pressure cooker to cook, the time should be shorter.
4, shelling
Boiled chestnuts, be sure to peel the shell while hot, because the shell is relatively soft, but also more moist, can be gently broken off.
Once the chestnuts become cooler, the water evaporates, the chestnut shell will become hard, the inside of the membrane coat will also be attached to the chestnut meat, it is difficult to peel. If you forget to peel them after cooking, you can soak them in hot water for a while, and the shells will become soft. With a finger along the opening of the chestnut shell a break, the chestnut shell will fall.
Peeled chestnut kernel, used to do chestnut roast chicken is the most fragrant, more delicious than potatoes roast chicken pieces. The flavor of the chestnut and the chicken blend with each other, more fragrant than braised pork.
If you want to do at home fried chestnuts, chestnuts do not have to cook, directly in the chestnut shell on the cut a mouth on the line, and then soaked in water, so that the chestnuts to absorb water, so that the texture is more soft and sticky, and good shells, and do not have to fry paste.
Nutritional value of chestnuts
Chestnuts are a kind of nuts, its nutritional value is very high, rich in starch, but also contains monosaccharides and disaccharides, carotenoids, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, protein, fat, inorganic salts, and other nutrients, it is a good supplemental nutritional ingredients.
Chestnuts after the big market, the price is very cheap, like to eat friends quickly buy some boiled to eat, but chestnuts are not good digestion, do not eat too much at a time, 10 on almost.
Blackened chestnuts are bad?
The shell of the chestnut is intact, but after peeling the chestnut kernel color is relatively black, is it bad? In fact, no, because the chestnut is rich in starch, starch is easily oxidized, it will make the color black, not bad. If it is a black spot or black spot, the chestnut is moldy, it is best not to eat.