Perhaps someone will find it strange how to prepare chestnuts, but it turns out to be ordinary for some peoples. In the Caucasus, Europe and America they are fried, stewed, boiled and eaten with pleasure. If you also want to taste chestnuts, the recipes for cooking dishes from them will help to fulfill this desire.
How to fry chestnuts in a frying pan?
When asked what can be cooked from chestnuts, most will advise to fry them. Therefore, first of all, we will analyze how to do this. You can fry chestnuts on the grill grate, in the oven, and in the frying pan. And the frying pan is recommended to take a special, with holes, but some manage to fry chestnuts in ordinary frying pans. For our recipe for cooking roasted chestnuts you need a frying pan, a knife and napkins. It is worth recalling that the chestnuts for frying, as well as in order to prepare other dishes, are suitable only edible, the fruits of horse chestnut that grows in most cities of the middle band will not work. Edible chestnuts differ more dense and soft needles on the skin.
Before cooking roasted chestnuts, you need to make a few cuts on them so they do not explode. Now put the chestnuts in a frying pan, put a layer of wet wipes on top and hold it under the lid for about 20 minutes. Periodically, chestnuts should be stirred and moistened wiped napkins. If the shell is cracked and easily removed, the chestnuts are ready, they can be removed from the fire. Chestnuts eat hot, you can salt and add a little vegetable oil.
How to cook boiled chestnuts?
As already mentioned above, chestnuts can and cook, as they are prepared in this way, now we will understand.
Chestnuts need to be cleaned, washed and peeled. Then pour the water into the pan and boil it. In the boiling water we lower the chestnuts and cook until ready. There is no need to cut and puncture the nut, when cooking, the chestnuts do not explode. Well, if you do not like eating chestnuts in their pure form, then with them you can cook a variety of dishes.
How to cook roast beef with chestnuts?
Ingredients:
- chestnuts - 500 g;
- Butter - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- beef - 750 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- meat broth - 1 l;
- white pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Chestnuts and onions are cleaned and cut into cubes. My meat, dry it with a paper towel and also cut into cubes. Melt butter in a saucepan and fry the onions in it until it is clear. Add meat and brown constantly stirring. Heated meat broth is added to meat, salt, pepper and cook for 1-1.5 hours under the lid. 20 minutes prior to readiness, we put chestnuts and cook the meat, making sure that the chestnuts are not boiled.
How to cook jam from chestnuts?
Do not know what else you can do from chestnuts? Try to cook jam out of them, suddenly become a favorite sweetness for tea?
Ingredients:
- chestnuts - 2 kg;
- sugar-700 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- peel of lemon and orange, a couple of sprigs of dill.
Preparation
Wash the chestnuts and put them in a pot of water. We put there dill and crusts of citrus, we cook all about an hour. Further, the water is drained, the chestnuts are cooled and peeled.
For a syrup pour a liter of water into the pan, add lemon juice, sugar and a few citrus peels. Cook on medium heat for 5 minutes. The syrup is allowed to cool.
Chestnuts we lay out on banks, fill in syrup and close with lids. Sterilize the jars in boiling water for 15-20 minutes. After 2 months, you can try the jam.
How to cook pudding from chestnuts?
Ingredients:
- chestnuts - 2 cups;
- sugar - ½ cup;
- milk - 1 l;
- flour - ¾ cup;
- Butter - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- yolks - 5 pieces;
- proteins - 8 pcs .;
- breadcrumbs.
Preparation
In half a liter of milk, cook peeled chestnuts until ready. Cooled chestnuts are rubbed through a sieve, dilute with a small amount of milk and add sugar. Oil the flour with flour and add to the mixture. Puree boil and cool. In separate bowls, whisk the proteins into foam and yolks. In the yolks, add protein foam, add the mixture in a puree and mix. The form for baking is lubricated with oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Pour the mashed potatoes into a mold and bake for 45 minutes. Ready pudding water any sweet sauce and served to the table.