Cooking Candied Chestnuts in Their Shells – Have You Ever Tried It? It's Surprisingly Sweet and Soft
Before sharing the sugar-boiled chestnut recipe at the end of the chestnut season, let's share the recipe for sugar-boiled chestnuts, with the chestnuts in their skin. How soft and sweet they are, really delicious. If you've watched the movie 'Little Forest,' you probably remember the villagers' scene of cooking chestnuts together. It's said that cooking chestnuts like this can preserve them for a year, but it's really not until a few days, and a jar of sugar-boiled chestnuts is already empty. This is a quite moderate eating way, if not, it will be finished in a short time. But please remember, you should eat them with the skin.
Ingredients1000g chestnuts with skin, 600g white sugar, 10g baking soda
Method
1. Prepare the chestnuts with their skin, and carefully select them, removing any chestnuts with sprouts
2. Soak the chestnuts in water with 5g baking soda, soak overnight, that is 8-12 hours
3. Rinse the soaked chestnuts, put them in a pot, add water to cover the chestnuts, then add 5g baking soda
4. Bring to a boil over low heat, then cook for 15 minutes, take out the chestnuts and drain off the water
5. Put the rinsed chestnuts back in the pot, continue to cook over low heat until they boil, then take out the water again
6. Rinse the chestnuts with water, carefully remove the hard shell at the bottom, be careful not to scatter the chestnuts
7. Put 1000ml of water and white sugar in the pot, cook over low heat until the white sugar melts
8. Gently put the chestnuts into the pot, continue to cook over low heat until it boils, then turn off the heat
9. Wait for the chestnuts to cool slightly, put the chestnuts and syrup into clean and dry sealed bottles, scoop out to eat, it can also be a snack, it's great for making sugar syrup and cakes
Five's Food Notes
If chestnuts sprout, they cannot be eaten.
When making sugar-boiled chestnuts, it is mainly to avoid scattering the chestnuts, the skin and the bottom shell are preserved to facilitate the preservation of the chestnuts. I have tried the first time to remove the bottom hard shell, the chestnuts scattered halfway. But keeping the bottom shell affects the taste and every time to spit out the shell, it's troublesome. So I changed to remove it after the second rinse with water, and finally cook it in sugar syrup for heating, it must boil.
