After entering the late autumn, chestnut has become a beautiful landscape in many urban streets and one of the most popular food in autumn. Many of them like to buy raw chestnut and cook it at home. They think it's nutritious and delicious. How long does it take to cook Chinese chestnut? What are the precautions for eating Chinese chestnut?
How long does it take to cook chestnuts? 1. Put chestnuts in the pot and pour in clear water. If the amount of clear water is not more than chestnuts, open fire and cook.
2. After boiling, take out the chestnut by heat and cut the bottom (hard part) of the chestnut with a knife. The hot chestnut will be easily removed together with the skin when the skin is removed.
3. When the chestnut is cooked, turn off the fire and simmer for a period of time. As the saying goes, "seven minutes cooked, three minutes covered" is the truth. It not only saves fire, but also makes the food stewed more soft and rotten.
It can be seen that chestnut can be cooked in 20 minutes, and the taste is the best.
Notes on eating chestnut
1. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat chestnut raw. It is better to cook chestnut, or cook congee with jujube and rice.
2. There are more carbohydrates in chestnut. People with diabetes should eat less chestnut to avoid affecting the stability of blood sugar.
3. Chinese chestnut should be chewed carefully and swallowed with body fluid to achieve better tonic effect no matter it is eaten raw, fried or cooked.
4. People with constipation, puerpera, dyspepsia, infants and young children eat more chestnut.
5. Chestnut has high starch, which is difficult to digest if eaten raw. It is easy to stagnate Qi if eaten cooked. If you eat too much at one time, it will hurt your spleen and stomach. You can eat up to 10 per day.