How to boil chestnuts and peel them well

If you cook the chestnuts directly, it will be difficult to peel them. But if you just make a cut on the chestnuts, they will taste much better when you cook them. Of course, don't rush to peel it, you can blanch it with hot water. This will make it easier to peel and the skin and meat will be separated easily. Chestnuts are particularly bloating, so you can’t eat too many of them, as it will cause bloating in your stomach. There are many ways to cook chestnuts, and each one is delicious.

1After washing the chestnuts, use a knife to cut a hole in the middle of each chestnut, making sure to cut through the skin.

2. Put the chestnuts in a basin and add water to cover the surface of the chestnuts.

3. Add two seasoning spoons of salt.

4. Soak the chestnuts in salt water for about 5 to 8 hours.

5. Pour out the brine from the chestnuts, wash them with clean water and put them into the pressure cooker.

6. Use a pressure cooker to cook rice at high pressure for 15 minutes. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, you can also cook it in boiling water for 20 minutes.

7. The cooked chestnuts are easy to peel and eat the flesh, which is very sweet.

If the chestnuts are already cooked, it is difficult to peel them, so you can peel them like this. Use your mouth to open the wider end of the chestnut a little bit, then peel it little by little with your hands, peeling off the hard skin on the outside and then the thin skin on the inside.

You can also use a hook to bite the narrow end of the chestnut vertically. Remember to bite it "vertically" so that it is easier to peel.

If you want to make sure the chestnuts are easy to peel, you can think of a way to do it before cooking. Chop it into two halves with a knife, or make a cut in it, and then boil it in water. Once they are ripe, they are easy to peel.

You can also chop it into two halves and steam it on a grate. The cooked chestnuts will be sweeter and easier to peel.

You can also chop a small hole in the chestnut and then fry it instead of cooking it. After it is cooked, the hole will naturally open larger and it will be easier to peel.

Precautions

When frying chestnuts, you must control the heat well and avoid burning them.

The chestnut involucre is spherical, with sharp hairy thorns on the outside, containing 2-3 nuts, which split into 4 petals when mature. The nuts are dark brown and 2 to 75px in diameter. The sharp spines of mature cupule are long or short, sparse or dense. When they are dense, they completely cover the outer wall of the cupule, while when they are sparse, the outer wall is visible. The diameter of the cupule including the spines is 4.5-6.5 cm; the nut is 1.5-3 cm high and 1.8-3.5 cm wide.