Name of the dish: boiled chestnuts
Main ingredients: chestnuts
Seasoning: rock sugar
Practice steps:
1, chestnuts are clean, especially the impurities in the skin, and the insects should be picked out and only the full chestnuts should be kept.
2. In order to taste more, you need to cut the chestnuts. Pay attention when operating. When cutting the horizontal edge of chestnut with a knife, it doesn't need to be too deep, so as not to hurt the pulp, which is convenient for eating and can quickly crack.
3. Boil water in the pot, add chestnut and rock sugar, add water without chestnut, and friends who like to eat sweet can put more rock sugar.
4. Bring to a boil with high fire, then turn to low fire, and cook for another 25 minutes, and finally dry the sugar water. Note: don't burn the pot when collecting juice. When the juice is almost collected, stir it with a shovel. Be sure to operate with low fire, so that chestnuts are delicious.
5. The chestnuts after juice collection are a little sticky. You can eat it directly or clean it if you don't mind.
Nutritional value and efficacy of chestnut
1. Chestnut belongs to nuts, and the carbohydrate content of fresh chestnut is 40%. Protein can be 4%-5%, and vitamin B 1 and B2 are also very rich, with about 24mg of vitamin C per100g, including potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and manganese. The potassium content is particularly high.
2. Chestnut has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying kidney and strengthening heart, and is mainly used to treat nausea and other symptoms. Chestnut contains soft dietary fiber and its glycemic index is lower than that of rice. As long as sugar is not added in processing and cooking, diabetics can taste it. In order to lose weight, it is best to eat chestnuts as snacks between meals.