It's the season when chestnuts are on the market. Chestnuts taste delicious. It is obvious to all that it is difficult to peel raw chestnut. However, many people say that even after the chestnut is cooked, it will still encounter the situation of hard peeling. What's the matter? Peeling chestnut is definitely a technical job.
How to peel cooked chestnut
1. If it's cooked chestnuts, it's hard to peel them, you can peel them like this. Bite open the wider end of the chestnut with your mouth, then peel it a little bit down with your hand. Peel off the hard skin on the outside and then the thin skin on the inside.
2. You can also buckle the narrow end of the chestnut and remember to bite it 'vertically' so that you can peel it.
3. After the chestnuts are cooked, if it's hard to peel, you can cook them in hot water again, and then cut a small mouth on them and peel them from the incision. After high temperature expansion, nuts and skins are easy to separate, and boiled eggs are quickly put in cold water to peel.
4. When the chestnuts are cooked, they can be cooled in cold water for several times, or frozen in the refrigerator for two hours to separate the shell and meat quickly. In this way, the chestnut clothes can be peeled quickly and the chestnut meat is complete.
Is it easy to peel cooked chestnut
Generally speaking, when the chestnut is cooked, some of them are easy to peel and some are still difficult to peel. For example, if chestnuts are cooked, they will be sealed and bagged when they are hot, which will easily lead to poor peeling of chestnuts. That's why when we buy ripe chestnut with shell in the supermarket, it's hard to peel. Therefore, the chestnuts can not be sealed until they are cool. Of course, in addition to this reason, under normal circumstances also often encounter some more difficult to peel, so, might as well cut a small cut before cooking.
How to peel raw chestnut
1. Microwave heating method: cut the shell of the purchased raw chestnut with the reamer, and heat it in the microwave for 30 seconds at low temperature. In the process, a layer of coat and meat will be separated. Before using this method to remove chestnut clothes, the shell must be cut open, which will not cause the disadvantages of microwave oven.
2. Hot water immersion method: wash the raw chestnut and put it into the basin, add a little salt, submerge it in boiling water, and cover the pot. After 5 seconds, the chestnut skin is scattered along with the chestnut shell. This method is time-saving and laborious to remove the chestnut skin.
3. Sun exposure method: discard the raw chestnut to be eaten and expose it in the sun for a day. The chestnut shell will crack.
4. Boil chestnuts in a low-pressure pot: clean and wash chestnuts, then wet them and put them into the low-pressure pot. Remember, there is no need to add any more water. That's good. Then open the fire and use a small fire (turn down the whole circle of fire). That can make the bottom of the pot evenly heated. Put the low-pressure pot down and heat it for a while, about three seconds. Swing the end of the pot. That's also to make it Heat the chestnuts evenly. When the low-pressure boiler is inflamed, it needs to swing the ends of the boiler again and again. At that time, it is very hot. At about ten minutes, you will hear the sound of chestnut explosion in the boiler. Then you can turn off the fire when you heat it and swing it at the same time. Then you can turn it off in the middle of fifteen seconds, stew it for another five seconds, open it and cool it.