1, cook chestnuts in the shell before a small cut, you can use a regular pot to cook or cook with a pressure cooker, the former probably need to cook about 30 to 40 minutes, the latter probably need to cook about 20 to 30 minutes, if you want to cook out of the chestnut softer and more flavorful, you can prolong the cooking time appropriately.
2, in general, boiled chestnuts can not add seasoning, because the chestnuts itself has a sweet taste, if you want to eat a little sweeter or more salty, you can according to personal taste appropriate increase in sugar or salt.
3, cook chestnuts before the first chestnut clean, remove surface impurities, with a knife cut open and then cook the chestnuts both flavorful, but also easy to peel, cooked can be put out of the refrigerator frozen, frozen after eating another flavor.
4, if you do not have a pressure cooker at home, in addition to the use of ordinary pots and pans to cook chestnuts, in the case of a small number of chestnuts, you can also use the rice cooker to cook, just put the chestnuts into the rice cooker, modulate the time, wait for the cook can be.