How to make delicious raw chestnuts

Raw chestnuts are rich in nutrients and can be eaten directly after removing the shell, but this will increase the burden on the human digestive system and is not conducive to the body's absorption of its nutrients. So how can raw chestnuts be cooked to taste good? What are the different ways to cook it in daily life?

How to make delicious raw chestnuts

1. Raw chestnuts and osmanthus are especially delicious together. When eating raw chestnuts, you need to prepare 1 kg of fresh chestnuts, 50 grams of lard, 250 grams of rock sugar, and 30 grams of sugar osmanthus. Make a cross on the shell of the prepared fresh chestnuts, put them in a pot, add water, heat and boil, and cook for about 5 minutes. Take them out and remove the shell to get the chestnut meat.

2. Cut the chestnut meat into cubes, put lard in a pot, heat it to 60% hot, then fry the chestnut meat in the pot for a while, take it out and blanch it in water to remove the fat, then put it in a steamer and steam it. After it is steamed, take it out and put it into the pot together with rock sugar, add appropriate amount of water, heat it to boil, and melt all the rock sugar. When the soup becomes thick, take it out and put it in a bowl, then sprinkle with sugar osmanthus and you can eat it.

How to cook raw chestnuts

1. Cook porridge

Porridge cooked with raw chestnuts is especially delicious. To cook porridge with raw chestnuts, you should first remove the shells of the raw chestnuts, then wash the chestnut flesh, and then prepare appropriate amounts of rice, millet, red beans, mung beans, purple rice and other porridge ingredients, wash them and put them together in the porridge pot, add appropriate amount of water and a few pieces of rock sugar, heat to a boil, then simmer over low heat. When the porridge in the pot is soft, sticky and thick, turn off the heat, take out the food and eat it.

2. Chicken Feet Stewed with Chestnuts

Raw chestnuts can also be stewed with chicken feet. When making it, you need to prepare five or six chicken feet, 200 grams of chestnuts, 1500 grams of water, and an appropriate amount of table salt. In addition, you need to prepare 150 grams of peanuts. Wash the chicken feet and blanch them in boiling water for 5 minutes. After taking them out, put them in the soup pot, add ginger slices, peanut kernels and raw chestnuts, and finally add water. Bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat for two hours. Add table salt to season before serving.

After reading the editor's introduction to how to eat raw chestnuts, you will not only know how to make raw chestnuts delicious, but also learn about its complete cooking methods. If you have raw chestnuts at home, hurry up and try different ways of eating them.