Saturday, November 3, 2007
chestnuts roasting...
 ... in the oven. and it tastes as good as the ones from the street vendors and stalls in the malls. yummy! but there's just one thing missing - that hypnotizing and tantalyzing aroma that, everytime - as in everytime it reaches my nostrils will automatically take me to the stall to buy 300 grams worth of it, so share with the family, of course! it's not cheap, mind you... so, when someone sent me an email on how to cook it at home, the same day i went to the groceries and bought 400 grams of it. it is just sooo easy - so i'm sharing the method of cooking with you guys, as well... here goes: "Preheat your oven to 210 C. Make a cut across the round side of each to keep them from exploding, and arrange them either on a rack or on a cookie sheet. Roast them until the skins have pulled back from the cuts and the nutmeats have softened (exactly how long will depend upon the chestnuts, but at least 15-20 minutes). Remove the nuts from the oven, make a mound of them in an old towel, wrap them up, squeeze them hard -- they should crackle -- and let them sit for a few minutes." enjoy it while it's hot (but not too hot, of course!) - only a little over 7 weeks to go 'til christmas!  Labels: holidays, in the kitchen, swiss life |
posted by frapr at 5:38:00 AM
Thanks for this post! I've been wondering how to cook these critters for the longest time. The Migros and Denner are still offering them on sale! I'll get a nice big sack tomorrow... LOL
glad it helped! so easy, isn't it? :) hey, leave some for us, too!
Got some chestnuts of the local market, I didn't know how to cook them. So I thought I'll go on google. I typed in chestnut how to roast them. You web site came up and now I know how to roast them.Now I am going to cook them. Thank you.