In autumn, not only is there a strong fragrance of osmanthus, there are delicious pomelo, chestnuts, mooncakes, crabs and other food, but the delicious raw chestnuts are very difficult to peel, I do not know how to cook and eat taste better and easier to peel it?
raw chestnut how to cook delicious to cook how longput a little sugar or honey, a little cooking oil to cook very tasty, the time is about 20-30 minutes or so, the specific method can be referred to the following steps:
1, prepare chestnuts 1,000 grams of water, edible salt, cooking oil, honey or sugar appropriate amount.
2, boiled chestnuts one by one with a knife cross openings, openings, pay attention to the knife, the knife side of the choice of chestnut raised side, so that the water boiled chestnut skin is very easy to rise open, easy to peel edible.
3, put the chestnuts into the pot, plus no more than the chestnut surface of the water, the right amount of cooking oil, a little salt, the right amount of sugar or honey.
4, with cold water to cook chestnuts, boil over high heat, after 15 minutes or so, change the small fire, with a small fire and cook for another 5-10 minutes.
5, cook until the chestnuts are cooked, turn off the fire and simmer for a period of time. As the saying goes: "seven points cooked, three points covered", this method not only saves fire, but also allows the food to stew more soft and rotten.
6, take out a chestnut, you can see the surface of the obvious cross cracks, the color is golden, peel a taste, the texture of the powder is cooked, if there is still some dry and hard need to continue to cook, cook a good chestnut taste sweet, the texture of chestnuts like eating sugar fried powder, very tasty.
raw chestnuts cooked delicious or steamed deliciousCooked delicious, the reasons are as follows:
1, chestnut steamed, due to the separation of water, even if the water into some flavored sugar can not penetrate into the chestnuts, if the chestnuts themselves do not have a high content of sugar, if the cooking out of the flavor is not enough to cook the chestnuts can be put on the sugar flavored to taste more flavorful and delicious some
2, cooking chestnuts Can make each chestnut are evenly heated cooked, cooked through the taste consistent, and steamed out of the chestnut, if the chestnut portion is more, there may be internal hard core or individual phenomenon is not cooked.
How to save raw chestnuts after cooking 1, refrigerated storage: 2 daysCooked chestnuts and boiled sweet potatoes, if a short time can be eaten, it is best to refrigerated storage is appropriate, so that it is convenient to eat the second heating, but the refrigerated time is not long, can only be saved for 2 days or so, once you find that the chestnuts tasted bad or the taste is not right, do not eat it, at this time, there has been a large number of bacteria and other harmful micro-organisms, continue to eat is not good for health. microorganisms, continue to eat on the health is not good.
2, frozen storage: 1-3 monthsIf you want to save cooked chestnuts for a long time, you can cool them, control the water, and then put them into a sealed plastic bag, placed in the freezer layer of the refrigerator to save, the time can be up to 1-3 months, the temperature is high when you can slightly thawed and eat directly, the flavor is better; when the temperature is low, you can put the microwave oven to defrost the texture and nutrition did not change much.
The fastest way to peel the skin of raw chestnuts 1, hot water immersion methodRaw chestnuts washed into the vessel, add a little salt, submerged in boiling water, cover the lid, 5 minutes later, remove the chestnut cut, chestnut skin with the chestnut shells come off together, this method of removing the chestnut skin, time-saving, labor-saving.
2, incision immersion methodchestnuts cut in half, remove the shell, cover the lid with boiling water to soak for 5 minutes, while hot to peel, simple operation, peeling is also easy.
3, salt water immersion methodchestnuts poured directly into salt boiling water for 5 minutes, and then use a knife to cut a mouth, shell and skin while hot, this method of peeling chestnuts quite complete.
4, refrigerator freezing methodChestnuts cooked and cooled into the refrigerator after two hours of freezing, so that the shell meat separation, so that the chestnut coat peeled up both fast, chestnut meat and complete.
5, heat expansion and cold contraction methodwith a knife to remove the shell of chestnuts, into the boiling water in 3-5 minutes, immediately after fishing into the cold water soaked in 3-5 minutes, it is easy to peel off the chestnut coat, and the flavor remains unchanged.
6, sun exposure methodThe raw chestnuts placed in the sun for a day, chestnut shells that will crack, then whether raw or cooked peeling, it is easy to peel off the chestnut shell and inside the layer of thin skin, but ready to store chestnuts can not be sunshine, because the chestnuts can not be preserved for a long time after the sun.
7, incision salt water boil?Chestnuts after washing, with a knife from the center slightly cut a mouth, put in salt water, cook on the stove for 5 minutes, remove the chestnut shell and skin while hot, very simple and practical.
8, microwave methodChestnuts with a knife cut a small mouth, placed in a bowl, cover, microwave ding for a few minutes, peeled while hot, this method is easy to peel, and the color is quite beautiful, but put a while the color will become darker, do not mind if you can use this method.