Cone Chestnut cooking delicious and good shelling practices are as follows:

Tools/materials: cone chestnuts, salt, water.

1, we will cone chestnut clean, dry water, and then use a knife or scissors in each cone chestnut are cut on the cross flower knife, and the row should be slightly longer, so that good shelling.

2, we poured the amount of water in the pot, put a small spoon of salt to boil, after the water boiled into the processed cone chestnuts, cover the lid and simmer for 20 minutes or so, if you are not sure whether cooked or not, you can taste one, be sure to cook thoroughly, cooked, you can turn off the fire, peeling the shells while they are still hot, and then cooled down, it's not good to peel.

Cone chestnut selection method:

1, look at the appearance:

Fresh cone chestnut appearance will have a layer of fine velvet, and the color is reddish-brown, if the cone chestnut appearance has no velvet, dark, then it is likely to be a long time to put a cone chestnut, smells like a stale taste. In addition, the cone chestnut is good to eat does not lie in the size of the head, on the contrary, smaller cone chestnut may be sweeter and more delicious.

2, look at the shape:

The shape of the cone chestnut is roughly divided into two kinds, one is a semi-circular side of the flat side, and the other body is flat, which is related to the growth of the cone chestnut, generally a whole cone chestnut with thorns inside the skin there will be three cones chestnut, both sides of the semi-circular, the middle of the flat side of the two sides of the sunshine, the natural flavor of the more sweet, in the middle of the no big have a The sweetness of the flavor.

3, look at the wormhole:

Cone chestnut sweet or not is the second, if you buy the cone chestnut wormhole, it can be a waste of time, look at the wormhole is to look at the bottom, there are obvious small holes in the eye, the second is to look at the cone chestnut skin has obvious black spots, so buy cone chestnut don't listen to merchants to catch the big one, or have to carefully select.

4, shake a shake:

Take up the cone chestnut shake, if shaking up the sound, then this cone chestnut can not be, this cone chestnut has shrunk, put a long time, the inside of the cone chestnut may have been blackened, and pick up the fuller, press, shaking up the sound is a good fresh cone chestnut.