Recipe for edible chestnuts

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Surely many have read in books or observed personally in Paris the numerous street vendors of roasted chestnuts. So almost everyone knows at least one way to cook chestnuts - you need to roast it. But not everyone knows which chestnuts are suitable for this.

Thus, many note that, despite the well-known abundance of chestnuts in Odessa and Kyiv, there is no street trade in their fruits. And the point here is not at all the lack of entrepreneurial spirit among the locals. Just a tree, which tourists come to admire the flowering, is called horse chestnut. The preparation of its fruits for food is impossible for the reason that they are not edible. And they eat the nuts of the noble chestnut, which grows in our country only in the southern regions. These trees, if you delve into the botanical jungle, even belong to different species. The actual edible species is not even a chestnut per se, but belongs to the beech family.

But it doesn't matter now, we want to know the recipecooking chestnuts rather than having a botany class. In the people, both trees are called chestnuts solely because of the external similarity of the fruits, which are shiny brown nuts that ripen inside a prickly shell.

The similarity is very conditional, and it is difficult to confuse edible chestnuts with horse chestnuts. Judge for yourself - on the left you see the fruits of horse chestnut, and on the right below - those that can be eaten. As you can see from the photo, the edible variety is smaller and has a flat side.

Chestnut recipe

Frankly, they don't need to be cooked at all. These nuts are quite tasty and raw, but tradition requires these chestnuts to be roasted, so it will not deviate from the canons. Purchased fruits with a dense and shiny skin are washed, a cross-shaped incision is made on the flat part of the nuts. This is necessary in order to prevent the fruit from exploding during the frying process, but we want to get a normal dish, not chestnut popcorn. After cutting, we place them in a pan, cover it with a lid and send it to the stove, where they will have to spend about half an hour, just do not forget to shake them periodically. The readiness of chestnuts is determined simply - you need to press on the nut with your finger - if it is soft, then you can turn off the fire and serve the finished dish to the table. They should be consumed hot with s alt.

But the recipe for making chestnuts may be different. They can also be boiled, stewed, baked in the oven and dried. They are used to make purees and seasonings.meat dishes. They stuff poultry, make chestnut desserts and puddings. There is even a recipe for making chestnuts with rice and soup with these fruits.

For lovers of culinary exotics, here is a recipe for chestnut soup. We make a frying of onions, carrots and celery. We clean the chestnuts, fill them with meat broth and send them to the stove. Separately, fry a little flour and combine it with vegetables. After the chestnuts soften, pour the vegetables into the pan, s alt and pepper to taste and cook for about 10 minutes, after which we filter the broth. Whip the boiled vegetable mass in a blender until gruel. We again combine this puree with the broth, mix and serve with sour cream. For more "entourage" you can add sherry. Try it - you won't regret it.