Fried chestnuts with osmanthus in Suzhou in autumn are not only fragrant with osmanthus, but also fragrant with sugar. Suzhou people like to fry chestnuts with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar. With the autumn wind, the air is filled with thick sweetness. When I was a child, after school, my mother always stood at the school gate with a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts stained with shiny black stones. It was the sweetest memory of childhood about autumn! Full chestnuts are fried until they shine. Peel a chestnut that has just come out of the pot and is still hot and send it to your mouth. Sweet and fragrant, with endless aftertaste. I just bought a bag of chestnuts and ate them up in a short time. Buy another catty of chestnuts. After dinner, the whole family will sit together, chat, eat sugar-fried chestnuts and have fun.
"Chestnut" is not only a favorite food of Suzhou people, but also has some other meanings in Suzhou dialect. Suzhou people bend their forefinger and hit people on the forehead, which is called "Maolizi"; Something that had been going well suddenly happened, called "a hot chestnut broke out in a cold wok." It is said that in Suzhou and the night before the first frost, people will put chestnuts on pillows for the night and eat them after dawn to pray for winter energy.
In autumn, ginkgo fried chestnuts and chestnuts mature together with a tonic-ginkgo! Every year when ginkgo comes on the market, Suzhou people try something new. Hot ginkgo and sugar-fried chestnuts are the most popular snack partners this season. Ginkgo biloba exploded in the microwave oven, green and tender as jade. Hot gingko used to be eaten, just like sugar fried chestnuts, and vendors were selling it all over the street. Ginkgo vendors choose a pair of burdens, with a charcoal stove at one end and a wok on it. If someone wants to buy it, the vendor will open the pot cover, grab a handful of ginkgo in the cage at the other end, put it in the pot, stir-fry it with a piece of clam shell until the ginkgo pops open, and then eat it. Now the fried ginkgo is sweet and bitter.
Other ways to eat 1. Fried chestnuts
The most classic way to eat chestnuts is to stir-fry chestnuts with sugar. The sweetness of sugar is introduced into the heart with the aroma of chestnuts.
Family practice
Step 1: Prepare several chestnuts, clean them, and cut a knife in the middle of the back of chestnuts (use the knife safely).
Step 2: Put the chestnuts into the rice cooker, add sugar and a little water.
Step 3: Press the cooking function of the rice cooker until the end of the program, and the juice is dry after the end.
Chestnut roast chicken is a traditional delicacy in Xishan.
The meat is tender and waxy, and everyone loves it.
2.roasted chicken with chestnuts
Roast chicken with chestnuts is a traditional famous dish, with chestnuts and chicken as the main ingredients. After cooking, the finished product has the smoothness of chicken and the sweetness of chestnut. The juice is rich and mellow, and its color is red and bright. It is really delicious and attractive.
Family practice
Step 1: Cut the chicken into small pieces, blanch it in a pot, take it out and drain it for later use.
Step 2: Stir-fry shallots and ginger slices in a wok, add blanched chicken pieces and stir well, then add cooking wine, soy sauce, salt and sugar and stir well, then add star anise, cinnamon and fragrant leaves, and finally add a proper amount of warm water to boil.
Step 3: Put the chestnut kernels into the pot, blanch them, put them into the chicken pieces that have been stewed for half an hour, and stew them together for about half an hour.
Step 4: when the time is up, adjust the fire and collect the juice, and turn off the fire after the soup begins to thicken.
Stir-fried chestnuts are sweet and greasy, and roasted chestnuts are delicious and mellow.
Have a lily chestnut soup to relieve boredom, fresh and refreshing.
3. Lily chestnut soup
The freshness of lily, coupled with the sweetness of chestnuts, is sweet and refreshing, and has the effects of clearing away lung heat and calming the nerves.