Currently, culinary art has reached a very high level, this makes it possible to cook not just edible, but rather delicious dishes from the most ordinary and unusual products. For example, from chestnuts - the product is rather unusual and is rarely used as the basis for creating any dishes. Often a person, walking around the city, steps over them or steps on without thinking that these fruits can taste great. But there are those who know how to roast chestnuts and can prepare from them an original independent dish or side dish.
Before describing cooking methods and telling how to roast chestnuts, you should pay special attention to the fact that you can only collect fruits on the street in the Caucasus (and even that is not all). In this area, it is not the decorative appearance of the plant that grows, but the so-called "noble" that can be fried and eaten. This variety can be identified by the presence of long and soft spines, and their skin during maturation becomes white. Edible fruits are more like nuts. It is recommended to eat only such chestnuts, as all others can be harmful.
First you need to wait for the ripeness of the fetus. This can be determined by its green skin with thorns, which, during the ripening period, breaks easily enough. You can fry the product both outdoors during a picnic, and at home, in a pan, in the oven and even in the microwave. About these methods will be described in the article.
Before roasting chestnuts, it is necessary to wash them, cut the peel. The incision method is unimportant, the main thing is that during the heat treatment the fetus can freely turn around. If you do not perform this procedure, at an elevated temperature, it can simply burst and cause some problems.
Roasted chestnuts, the recipe for which is simple enough, can be used as a complete and independent dish, and can be used as an additive (ingredient for any dish). Often they are added to salads, chestnuts are also cooked in gravy or sauce and stuffed with meat.
How to fry chestnuts in a pan? For this purpose, the future dish must be put on the pan and cover. The frying technology itself is very simple, the only thing you need to do is shake the pan a little every five minutes. In total, the frying should last no more than half an hour. After cooking, the fruits can be eaten, they become soft. In order to enhance their palatability, you can add a little salt and sunflower oil.
You can get a lot of pleasure from dishes such as roasted chestnuts. The recipe implies the ability to cook them also in the microwave, which is much simpler. First you need to cut them a little, then put them in a special container, fill them with salted water, so that one third of them are closed, and put to prepare. Cooking time at maximum power is approximately five minutes. Readiness can also be determined by softness.
Chestnuts can also be roasted in the oven. For this purpose, they are also notched; you can make an incision a little deeper to insure against an "explosion." After this, the fruits must be laid out on a baking sheet, upward cuts. Before starting to fry, the oven must be heated to the maximum, the cooking time at this temperature takes about 30 minutes. It is important not to miss the moment when the contents of the chestnuts leak out, after which they must be kept in the oven for another seven minutes and can be pulled out.
You should know that with heat, with heat, chestnuts are much tastier, and the longer they are postponed, the more their taste will dim. Therefore, this product is not recommended for future use.