Sugar Roasted Chestnuts

Name: Sugar Roasted Chestnuts
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g Chestnuts (fresh); 20ml olive oil; 30g White sugar; 30g water

by Connie Chen

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

4

In the golden autumn season, what I am most worried about is chestnuts. The sweetness and nutrition of chestnuts are unforgettable. In Liang Shiqiu's pen: "In Peiping, after the autumn festival every year, a large iron pot is erected outside the door of almost every dried fruit shop on the street, a short section of chimney is tilted up, and a small Liba swings a large shovel. Stir-fried chestnuts. It is not dry stir-fried, but it is stir-fried with sand, and sugar is added to make the sand form large and small pieces, so it is called sugar-fried chestnuts. The black smoke of bituminous coal spreads, the sound of stir-frying, and the explosion of millet sometimes : Sound, woven into a lively scene of late autumn and early winter. There are no children who don’t like to eat chestnuts. Buy a pack of a few copper plates, wrap them in straw paper, and tie them with hemp stems. It’s hot, sometimes it’s hot. Take it home, reluctant to finish it for a while, and hide it in the quilt to keep it warm." This chestnut is extremely vital in the writer's writing.
Nowadays, chestnut specialty stores use machines to fry chestnuts, home-made street [sugar-fried chestnuts] can be used in microwave ovens, electric baking pans, pressure cookers, ovens, etc. The creativity of eating goods is unlimited. I personally like to use the oven to make [Sugar Roasted Chestnuts], which is simple, convenient, and close to the street taste.
Chestnut is rich in nutrition and is known as the "King of Thousand Fruits". It is called "Five Fruits" together with peaches, apricots, plums, and dates. It is called "health food" abroad. It is a superior fruit for invigorating the spleen and kidneys and prolonging life. May wish to make [Sugar Roasted Chestnuts] at home this fall to appreciate the street delicacies!

Ingredients

Sugar Roasted Chestnuts

1. Wash the chestnuts and wipe the moisture from the chestnuts

2. Cut each chestnut down the waist with a kitchen knife. Don't be too violent at this step, just cut the inner skin, cut too deep, the chestnut will not be easy to peel when it is broken.

3. Add a spoonful of olive oil to coat the chestnuts with oil

4. Place in the middle of the preheated oven, and bake at 200° for 20 minutes

5. When roasting chestnuts, mix granulated sugar and water, heat to melt into syrup

6. Take the chestnut that has been roasted for 20 minutes out of the oven, pour it into the syrup and mix well

Tips:
1. Olive oil can be replaced with corn oil, or butter, etc.;
2. Sugar can be replaced with honey, maple syrup, etc.;
3. Pay attention to your own safety when using a knife on chestnut, and don't hurt your hands;
4. The knife mark on the chestnut does not need to be too deep, just cut the epidermis and inner membrane;
5. For the oven version of sugar-roasted chestnuts, don't choose the large ones, the medium ones are easier to roast and roast thoroughly;
6. The baking time after brushing with sugar water depends on the size of your chestnuts.