Chestnuts are common food in autumn. It is a kind of food with high nutritional value. Chestnuts are rich in vitamins, protein, fat and minerals, such as calcium, iron and potassium. Eating it is good for your health. Most chestnuts are ripe and harvested from August to September. Generally speaking, the fresh chestnuts of that year will be listed one after another around September. Autumn is the best season to eat chestnuts. Eating chestnuts properly at this time is both seasonal and delicious.
Chestnuts are abundant, cheap and delicious in cold weather. Although chestnuts have high nutritional and health value, they also need to be eaten properly. It is best to eat chestnuts as snacks between meals or between meals, rather than eating them in large quantities after meals. This is because chestnuts contain more starch and are easy to eat after meals, which is not conducive to maintaining weight.
Common ways to eat chestnuts
1, fried chestnuts with sugar
Chestnuts can be eaten with sugar or fried. The method of frying is simple. As long as there is a microwave oven at home, you can cut raw chestnuts with scissors and put them in the microwave oven. Heat for 3 minutes, add proper amount of edible oil and sugar, stir well, and heat at high temperature for 3 minutes. After taking it out, the sweet and delicious chestnuts are ready. It can be eaten directly after cooling.
Chestnuts can be used as chicken soup.
Chestnut flat fruit can also be used as soup. You can take out chestnut shells and pulp, then make soup with hens and American ginseng, then put the prepared ingredients into the pot and add a proper amount. Boil onion, ginger and water for two hours, then add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Chestnut porridge is delicious
Chestnut porridge is also delicious. When cooking, chestnuts should also be taken out in advance, and then put together with porridge materials such as rice, red beans, glutinous rice, black rice and mung beans. After the porridge is added, add a proper amount of soft glutinous rock sugar porridge, and then open the rock sugar to make chestnut eight-treasure porridge.
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