There is a song in Shennongjia: "Pear dates in August, hawthorn in Xuan Yue, chestnut in October." The wild chestnut in Shennongjia is regarded as the best chestnut because of its small quantity, good composition and good taste. Chestnut is known as the "king of dried fruits" and belongs to the genus Castanea of Beech. China is the hometown of chestnuts. Chestnut tree is one of the earliest cultivated fruit trees in China. The ancestors ate chestnuts for about 4,000 years, and chestnuts are found in Banpo site in Shaanxi.

Although chestnuts have all kinds of beauty, we should pay more attention to them when using them. "extremes meet" is a well-known truth, and chestnuts are no exception. In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shixiong once said in his book "Diet Spectrum of Living with Interest": "All foods need to be chewed carefully, and swallowing liquid is beneficial. If you eat until you are full, all the suffocation will hurt your spleen. " It means warning everyone that eating chestnuts is beneficial, but you should also chew slowly and not be greedy. If you eat too much at a time, you will not only fail to nourish your body, but also hurt your spleen and stomach in turn. Today, I will share with you the delicious method of chestnut. Don't roast chestnut and teach you a new way to eat it. It is simple and nutritious. Children often eat it and grow taller. Come and show me how it is made.

Chestnut porridge

Ingredients: chestnut millet glutinous rice black rice

Production method

1, prepare a small bowl and put a handful of black rice, a handful of yellow rice, a handful of white glutinous rice, and a handful of ordinary rice. Wash all the rice with clear water, and then drain the water and pour it into the plate.

2. Tidy it up and spread it evenly on the bottom of the plate, then put the plate in the refrigerator for two hours, or put it in the refrigerator overnight.

3. Let's prepare some chestnuts again. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the mature season of chestnuts, and chestnuts are known as "hardcore crops" and "woody crops". Therefore, chestnut has the functions of benefiting qi and strengthening spleen and nourishing the stomach and intestines, so it can be properly given to children at ordinary times.

4. Clean the chestnuts. Put a small cross knife on the head of the chestnuts. After all the chestnuts are processed, pour them into the pot, add clear water and boil them for 3 minutes. After cooking, take them out so that you can peel off the chestnuts easily. Be sure to peel off the chestnuts while they are hot. It will not be easy to peel them when they are cold. After shelling, break them into small pieces and put them on the plate.

5. Miscellaneous rice was frozen for two hours, then it was taken out and thawed a little. I used a casserole to boil the water in advance. After the water was boiled, I poured the miscellaneous rice in. During the freezing process, the rice grains would produce some honeycomb holes, which would immediately expand when it met hot water. If breakfast is in a hurry, you can use this method to cook rice, so that it can be cooked and boiled faster and save time.

6, stir well and cook for half a minute to put the chestnut kernels in. The whole process takes about 20 minutes. During the cooking process, we have to stir several times to prevent the bottom of the pot from being burnt. Add some brown sugar before the pot, which tastes better. Look at the nutritious and delicious breakfast porridge. Spleen-strengthening, gluten-strengthening, nutritious and delicious can be cooked and drunk often at home.

Lixiao private words

1. Raw chestnuts are not easy to peel. Boil chestnuts in water for 3 minutes, and peel them while they are hot.