Roasted Chestnut

The period around the Mid-Autumn Festival is the season when chestnuts are ripe for the market. Next to the food stall at the entrance of the street, there have been several temporary stalls selling sugar-fried chestnuts recently. As long as you pass by, you can smell the tempting chestnut scent from a distance. Strangely, the sugar-fried chestnut smells very fragrant and the color is shiny. It doesn't smell so good when it is really bought and eaten. Disappointed, I simply bought freshly peeled raw chestnuts and went home to cook for myself. A hundred meters away from the corner is the vegetable market, where many stalls sell these seasonal fruits and vegetables.
There are 2 varieties of chestnuts on the stall, and the prices are different. The stall owner told me that if you want to eat good-quality chestnuts, you can choose this kind of chestnut that is smaller and rounded like an awl. The bigger chestnut, although it is cheaper, looks good on the surface. In fact, 10% of the nuts are bad. The stall owner told me the truth when he saw that I often helped her buy fruits and vegetables. When you buy chestnuts, you can also pick them up and smell them with your hands. If there is a special smell, don't buy them. Deteriorated chestnuts may cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Although chestnut is delicious, it should be modest. Since chestnuts are not low in carbohydrates, when eating chestnuts for tonic, avoid eating too much, especially for people with diabetes, so as not to affect the stability of blood sugar.
Perhaps most people find it troublesome to peel chestnuts, especially raw chestnuts. Many people buy chestnuts to cook at home, but peeling the inner skin of chestnuts is really a headache. Here are a few ways to peel chestnuts. The first is to make a cut of the chestnut, then boil the chestnut in salt water for 5-7 minutes, pick it up and quickly soak it in ice water for a while, it is particularly easy to peel. There is also this method that I shared with you today. Using the heat expansion and contraction during the baking process of the oven, the chestnut inner skin and outer shell will burst open automatically. With a gentle hand, the golden chestnut kernels can be easily taken out. , It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, full of aroma. Before putting it in the oven, the chestnut should be cut. This process is in the vegetable market, and the stall owner has already taken care of it for me. If you do it yourself, be careful, because the surface of the chestnut is too smooth, you must fix the chestnut before you start.