Microwave heating method: cut the shell of the bought raw chestnuts with scissors and put them in a microwave oven for 30 seconds, and the clothes and meat in the inner layer will automatically separate. Before removing the chestnut coat in this way, the shell must be cut open, otherwise the microwave oven may break down.
Expansion due to heat and contraction due to cold: peel off chestnuts with a knife, boil them in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, and immediately soak them in cold water for 3-5 minutes. Chestnut skin is easy to peel off, and the taste remains unchanged.
Sun exposure method: expose the raw chestnuts to the sun for a day, and the chestnuts will crack.
Chestnuts can be eaten in a variety of ways, not only fresh, cooked, fried with sugar, eaten as vegetables, but also processed into various foods. Chestnut in the south is a delicacy in banquet dishes. Chestnut black-bone chicken, chestnut braised mutton, chestnut fried chicken pieces, chestnut stewed pig's feet and other dishes are widely known. Chestnuts fried with sugar in the north are waxy, sweet and delicious. The most special way to eat is to grind chestnut meat and cook porridge with glutinous rice, which is delicious and also an excellent medicinal diet, tonifying kidney and benefiting qi. In addition, there is the custom of making sweet wine with chestnuts and glutinous rice. The brewed sweet wine is fragrant and refreshing, and people feel very comfortable after drinking it. Su Dongpo said in a poem, "When you get old, you get waist and foot disease, and Shan Weng takes a good prescription from the old millet. The guest came here to say that it is late in the morning and late in the evening. After three swallows, the white jade pulp is collected. " Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote: "My teeth are floating and sighing, and my chestnut is burning to cure night hunger."
Liziji
The main ingredients are 1 chicken (about 400g) and 150g raw chestnuts.
Ingredients sliced onion and ginger * * * 10g
30g of seasoning soy sauce, 25g of sweet noodle sauce, cooking wine 10g, monosodium glutamate 1g, soup 400g, sugar 30g, water starch 20g, peanut oil 1000g (about 75g) and pepper oil 5g.
Cooking techniques:
1. Wash the chicken, cut it into 3cm square pieces, add a little soy sauce and mix well.
2. Wash chestnuts, chop them into cross-shaped blades with a knife, cook them thoroughly in a pot, take them out and peel them, split them in half, then add the chicken and chestnuts in sugar and fry them until they are red, and then take them out.
3. Put a little oil in the frying spoon, stir-fry onion and ginger, add sweet noodle sauce, add soy sauce, soup, cooking wine, sugar, chicken nuggets and chestnuts when the sauce is fragrant, cover the pan, move to low heat until it is 80% rotten, and then move to medium heat. When the soup is half cooked and the chicken is rotten, add monosodium glutamate and thicken it with water starch.
Flavor characteristics:
The color is red, the juice is mellow and sweet and salty.
Braised mutton with chestnuts
Ingredients: mutton 640g, chestnuts 320g, 1 red and white radish, cinnamon, star anise, red pepper, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken powder, sugar and salt.
Method:
1. Chop mutton, drain water after supercooling; Red and white radish cut into corners.
2. First put the carrot and the white radish in the pot, add water to boil, add the mutton, and cook for 15 minutes. After taking out the mutton and supercooling it, drain the water and discard the radish.
3. Ignition in the pot, stir-fry ginger, add mutton and stir-fry, then add wine, that is, add seasoning, cinnamon, star anise and pepper, boil and simmer for about 1 hour.
4. After the mutton is stewed, add the radish and chestnuts, stew until the chestnuts are soft, and then add the sauce to eat.
Yam chestnut pig tail soup
Efficacy Huaiyan Yam Chestnut Pig Tail Decoction has the functions of invigorating spleen and kidney, replenishing essence and filling marrow. Spleen and kidney are weak, waist and knees are sore, frequent micturition and nocturia are common, and this soup can be used as diet therapy.
Ingredients: 50 grams of yam, 250 grams of chestnuts, 1 pig tail, 2 slices of ginger.
The preparation method is that chestnuts are shelled and coated; The potion of yam is soft; Cut the pig's tail into pieces and let the water out. Put all the ingredients in a casserole, add water and boil for 2 hours. Season and serve with soup.