VIDEO: How to prepare chestnuts properly

Prepare chestnuts in the oven

1. Preheat the oven to 180 °.
2. Score the chestnuts crosswise on the curved side.
3. Then place them flat on a baking sheet.
4. The baking sheet is now placed on the middle rail of the oven.
5. Leave the chestnuts in the oven until the peel starts to burst at the scratched spots. That takes approx. 20 minutes.


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6. Then take the chestnuts out of the oven and peel them, removing the inner skin as well.

Boil chestnuts in a pot

Alternatively, you can prepare the chestnuts in a pot. However, they don't get as crispy as they do in the oven

1. For this variant, too, first scratch the chestnuts crosswise.
2. Then let them simmer for about 15 minutes water draw.
3. Take the chestnuts out as soon as the peel pops open and peel them as quickly as possible: the drier or more dry. The colder the chestnuts, the more difficult it is to peel them. The best thing to do is to take the chestnuts out of the water one by one.

Glazed chestnuts 

Chestnuts are also perfect as garnish to meat (duck, goose, Wild)

1. Briefly heat 3 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of butter in a pan while stirring. The sugar initially turns into lumps, but then dissolves.
2. Then add 700 g of peeled chestnuts and turn them in the pan.
3. Clear the mixture in one shot red wine away.
4. You can also add a little cream.

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