Chestnuts fried with sugar are soft, sweet and delicious.

chestnut fried with sugar is dark brown, shiny, crisp and easy to peel, sweet and delicious. Chestnuts fried with sugar are soft and sweet, which was called "perfumed sugar" by the ancients. Sugar-fried chestnuts are a traditional Chinese candy snack, which is made by frying fresh chestnuts with sugar. The natural sweetness of chestnuts is combined with sugar syrup to produce a sweet taste. During the frying process, the syrup on the outer layer of chestnuts will form a brittle and hard sugar coating, which adds a crisp taste to chestnuts.

Beijing chestnuts are delicious because they are fragrant, sweet, waxy and delicate in taste after being fried, especially the astringent skin on the inner layer is easy to peel off. This feature benefits from Yanshan Mountain, where chestnuts are planted intensively in Beijing. It belongs to granite soil-forming parent material, that is, what people call medical stone soil, with high silicon content and rich minerals.

Precautions for purchasing chestnuts

1. Look at the appearance

Fresh chestnuts will have a layer of fine fluff on the outside, and the color is reddish brown. If there is no fluff on the outside and the color is dark, it is likely that chestnuts have been stored for a long time and smell old. In addition, the taste of chestnut does not depend on its size. On the contrary, smaller chestnuts may be sweeter and more delicious.

2. Look at the shape

Chestnuts can be roughly divided into two shapes, one is semi-circular and the other is flat, which is related to the growth of chestnuts. Generally, there are three chestnuts in a whole prickly chestnut skin, which are semi-circular on both sides and flat in the middle, while the natural taste on both sides is sweeter due to sunlight, and the middle one is not so sweet.