Now is the season when chestnuts are on the market in large quantities. In addition to the common practice of boiling chestnuts and frying chestnuts with sugar, there are many practices of chestnuts. Look at the following practices of chestnuts!

Method of Chestnut 1 Method 1: Lily Chestnut Soup

Materials: fresh lily 100g, Chinese chestnut (shelled) 150g, Chinese yam 30g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Exercise:

1. Wash lily, chestnut and yam. Put the three materials together in a casserole and add a proper amount of water.

2. After the big fire boils, cook for two hours with low fire. Add some rock sugar and you can enjoy it.

Efficacy: moistening lung and nourishing yin, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.

Practice 2: Tea Tree Mushroom Chestnut Chicken

Ingredients: Agrocybe aegerita, chestnuts, half chicken, onion, ginger, star anise, pepper, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine and a little sugar.

Exercise:

1. Soak Agrocybe aegerita in advance, remove roots and impurities, and wash for later use. Bite chestnuts in the microwave for two or three minutes and peel them for later use. Wash the chicken and cut into pieces, cut the onion into small pieces and slice the ginger.

2. Put water in the pot, put the chicken pieces into the water, take them out, wash them and drain them; Put oil in a wok, add onion, ginger, star anise and pepper and stir-fry until fragrant; Add chicken pieces, stir-fry until the chicken pieces change color and the water is dried.

3. Add soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar and cooking wine and stir-fry until the color is even; Add Agrocybe aegerita and chestnuts and stir-fry; Add boiling water until the chicken pieces are cooked, and turn to low heat for 30-40 minutes until the chicken pieces are crisp and rotten; Finally, add salt to taste, collect the juice over high fire, and add the shallots and dice them.

Efficacy: Agrocybe aegerita has the effects of invigorating qi, appetizing, tonifying kidney and nourishing yin, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, improving human immunity and enhancing human disease prevention ability. Coupled with chestnuts that nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, this dish is most suitable for autumn health.

Practice 3: Chestnut and red jujube porridge

Ingredients: chestnut, red dates, glutinous rice and rice.

Exercise:

1. Wash glutinous rice and rice, soak them in clear water in advance, then put them into the pot together with clear water suitable for stars, add red dates to boil, then turn to low heat and cook for about 30 minutes, stirring in the middle to prevent sticking to the bottom of the pot.

2. Cut the cooked chestnuts into small pieces. After 30 minutes, add chestnut pieces and continue to cook for about 20 minutes until the porridge is thick.

Efficacy: Jujube has the functions of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, caring skin, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and chestnut has the functions of invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach. Cooking porridge with red dates, chestnuts and glutinous rice is sweet and delicious and easy to absorb. It is a delicious food for all ages.

Practice 4: Stewed sea cucumber with oil beans and chestnuts

Ingredients: sea cucumber, chestnut, snap beans, oil, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, white sugar, oyster sauce, soup stock, ginger, garlic and water starch.

Exercise:

1. Soak the sea cucumber in clear water, wash it and cut it into small pieces. Shell and inner membrane of chestnut, cut into pieces, wash oil beans, remove tendons, cut into small pieces, slice ginger and chop garlic. Heat oil in the pan, add garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add beans and stir-fry until soft.

2. Add chestnuts and continue to stir-fry until cooked. Season with salt and set aside. Heat oil in a pot, add ginger and garlic until fragrant, then add sea cucumber and stir-fry for a while, then add cooking wine, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar and stir-fry to taste.

3. Add the fried snap beans chestnuts, pour in a small amount of stock, simmer until the juice is collected, thicken with water starch, and season with salt.

Efficacy: Stewed sea cucumber with oil beans and chestnuts is nutritious and has the effects of enriching blood, tonifying kidney and moistening dryness.

Health tips

Chestnut contains inorganic salts such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, starch, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and potassium, and various components such as carotene, B vitamins and folic acid. Beef is rich in protein, fat, vitamin B, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and cholesterol. It has the effects of strengthening tendons and bones, tonifying deficiency and nourishing blood, resolving phlegm and calming wind.