How to cook fresh chestnuts

Chestnut is a food that is familiar to everyone. Many people often buy some sugar-fried chestnuts to eat in their daily lives. Of course, in some places where chestnuts are produced, people also like to use chestnuts to make a variety of foods. For example, many people like to cook fresh chestnuts to eat. However, if you want to cook chestnuts deliciously, you have to master certain methods. Next, I will introduce to you how to cook fresh chestnuts!

1. Can fresh chestnuts be cooked and eaten?

It can be cooked and eaten.

Ordinary cooking method: Boil chestnuts in cold water, bring to a boil over high heat. After about 15 minutes, switch to low heat and cook on the lowest heat for another 15 minutes until cooked. Very fragrant, soft, and delicious.

How to cook with a pressure cooker: Put the chestnuts in the pressure cooker, not too many, add a little water, and cook on low heat for more than 10 minutes. It will not taste good if boiled directly in water. When chestnuts are soaked in water, the nutrients will be easily lost and their original sweetness will also be lost. Another method is steaming. It’s not as delicious as the first method, so you might as well try both. Remember to cut the chestnuts before cooking, so that the cooked chestnuts will look good and be easier to peel.

Five-spice cooking method: In addition to the ordinary water boiling method, chestnuts can also be cooked using the five-spice cooking method. The chestnuts cooked in this way taste rich in flavor.

2. Quick Peeling Method for Boiled Chestnuts

1. Before cooking, use a knife to make a cross on the chestnuts. After cooking, the chestnut skin will expand and it will be easy to peel.

2. After boiling the chestnuts in water, pour them into cold water while they are still hot and soak them for about 10 to 20 seconds. Take them out and drain the water. The chestnut skin will shrink when it gets cold and can be easily removed. Similarly, you can also freeze the chestnuts in the refrigerator after cooking, and the frozen chestnuts have a unique flavor.

3. Suitable people for chestnut

Chestnuts are not only delicious, but also have high nutritional value. However, depending on the cooking method, chestnuts are suitable for different people.

Cooked chestnuts are suitable for people of all ages: cooked chestnuts can soothe the stomach and spleen, and relieve spleen deficiency.

Pregnant women eating chestnuts can not only supplement various trace elements, which is beneficial to pelvic development, but also promote the growth and development of the baby. Women who eat chestnuts can delay aging, make their skin glow and become radiant and tender. It can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, which is beneficial to beauty and health.

Men who eat chestnuts can strengthen their yang, nourish their kidneys, strengthen their muscles and body, regulate their stomach and intestines, and also effectively relieve fatigue.

However, patients with diabetes, rheumatism and those with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating it. Chestnuts are difficult to digest, so you should not eat too many of them, otherwise it will cause stomach bloating. Since infants and young children have incompletely developed gastrointestinal tract, eating chestnuts can easily cause bloating and be difficult to digest, so they should be eaten with caution. If children have mouth ulcers, they can eat chestnuts appropriately. In addition, spoiled chestnuts cannot be eaten.