Introducing a way to make your own sweetened chestnuts at home in a rice cooker. You don't have to spend a few dollars to make a big pot, it's really worth it. Chestnuts can not only nourish the stomach and spleen, and the taste of sweet and soft, is a lot of people sought after by the favorite. But outside the sale of sugar fried chestnuts, because the fried when mixed into the quartz sand is black, chestnut epidermis rubbed all black, some flesh is also black.
Today we will introduce a way to use the rice cooker to do sugar fried chestnuts, both clean, hygienic and not black dirty hands.
The first point, cleaning treatment
Buy home chestnuts carefully cleaned, especially the surface. After that, use a knife to make a cut on the surface of each chestnut. You can also cut a cross, so that the chestnuts can be more flavorful, but also to ensure that the rice cooker can be cooked through, more soft and sticky.
The second point, add accessories
The first thing is to put some rock sugar, if you like other flavors, you can also add some brown sugar, their own free play. Then in the rice cooker, drop some oil, do not have to be too much, according to their own taste control is good. Finally, add water, to just want to disappear over the surface of the chestnuts as a standard.
The third point, the simmering pot
Turn on the button to make rice, use the most common mode on it. After that let the rice cooker run on its own, never pause to open the lid in the middle. After the rice cooker finishes cooking, let it simmer for about 10 to 20 minutes to make the chestnuts more flavorful and soft.
It's best to use a rice cooker with a pressure function. Large chestnuts can also be easily undercooked, but both can be remedied by reaming and increasing the simmering time.