Every time I go to the supermarket or catch a big party in the countryside, I will buy some sugar-fried chestnuts to go home, because before I learned to peel chestnuts, I liked eating chestnuts very much, but peeling chestnuts was too much trouble, so despite the high price, I couldn't resist the temptation of the king of thousands of fruits. Here, a kilo of sugar-fried chestnuts costs 18 yuan, while raw chestnuts only cost 3~5 yuan, which means that we can make 3 kilos ourselves by buying 1 catty of sugar-fried chestnuts from others. Dear friends who love chestnuts, learn to make your own sugar-fried chestnuts quickly. It's too cost-effective to do it yourself.
Today I will share with you 1 the most practical method. Maybe my friends have seen my video tutorial on peeling chestnuts. There are several ways to peel chestnuts, but the most practical method summed up by failure is the following one. We don't need to learn too much, just one is enough, just try.
We washed the chestnuts we bought with clean water several times, then added some salt, poured them into clean water without chestnuts, and soaked them in salt water for 20 minutes. The purpose is to sterilize, remove impurities and dirt from chestnuts, and soak chestnut shells to make them soft for the next operation. When there are blisters, some chestnuts will surface. Such chestnuts are generally rotten chestnuts with hollow inside and not full flesh. If you press them, you will lose them directly. If you press them with your hand, they will be hard.
In order to peel the chestnut shell easily, we must cut a knife or a cross knife on the chestnut shell. However, because the shell of chestnuts is very hard, it is not easy for us to grasp the strength when cutting. We can put chestnuts in the middle with chopsticks, so that they won't be cut down when cutting. The plane landed. Cut the knife on the convex surface so that the chestnuts won't run away.
Or we can use a bottle cap, which is more convenient than chopsticks, but we must use a bigger and deeper bottle cap, which can just put chestnuts in and cushion the cutting of the kitchen knife. Small bottle caps are really helpful.
In addition to cutting on the convex surface of chestnuts, we have to cut off both ends of chestnuts, with the plane of chestnuts facing down and the convex surface facing up.
If you are worried that the incision is not long enough and the chestnuts are not easy to open, you can also cut the incision to two-thirds of the chestnuts with scissors.
We add proper amount of peanut oil to the pot, pour a little water, cook the sugar until it is sesame oil color, pour water into it, put it into the chopped chestnuts and cook for about 5 minutes. When the water is dry, chestnuts laugh. Chestnuts are sweet and soft, peeled once every 2 seconds, and the inner membrane is also brought down. It's really fast and clean. I have tried many methods to remove chestnut shells, and only this one is the most practical. Parents can try! Failure summed up the method of peeling chestnut, peeling 1 piece in 2 seconds, clean and complete, and the novice succeeded at one time. If you want to eat sugar-fried chestnuts, make them yourself. Learn this method. Sweet and soft, it falls off when you touch the shell. It smells good!
Tip: When cooking chestnuts, it is wrong to only boil them in water. You should add some oil to lock the moisture in chestnuts. Sugar can make chestnuts shrink, so chestnuts open more easily.