Autumn is the best time to eat chestnuts, which can benefit Qi and spleen, enrich stomach and intestines, strengthen muscles and bones, prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Chestnut tastes very soft, waxy and sweet. Cooking chestnut and microwave blasting chestnut are also popular ways for many people. How can raw chestnut peel quickly?
How to cook chestnut
（1） How to cook Chinese chestnut
1. Preparation of materials;
2. Cut a small hole in each chestnut with a knife;
3. Pour the chestnut into the pot, add water and cook;
4. When the water is boiled and the heat is changed to a small fire, the cracks will become larger after the chestnut is cooked;
5. Put the boiled chestnut into cold water and immediately remove it;
6. It is easier to remove the shell and skin as soon as possible;
7. Peeled chestnut can be eaten directly;
8. It can also be put into the refrigerator. When you cook the soup, you can add a few. It's also very delicious.
（2） How long does it take to cook Chinese chestnut
Common cooking method: use cold water to boil chestnuts. Boil them in high heat. After about 15 minutes, change the heat to a low one, and cook them in a minimum heat for another 15 minutes. It's very fragrant and rotten. Noodles are delicious.
To cook in a pressure cooker:
Put the chestnuts in the pressure cooker, don't put too much, put a little water, slow and light fire, it'll take more than 10 minutes. If you use it directly, it is not good to cook it in water. If you soak it in water, the nutrition will be lost easily, and the original sweetness will be lost. Another way is steaming. There is no first way to taste delicious. Try it if you don't want to. Before cooking, remember to cut a knife on the chestnut, so that the chestnut is good-looking and peeled.
Five flavor cooking method
In addition to the common boiling method, chestnuts can also be cooked with the five flavor cooking method, so that the chestnuts can taste rich.
Step: clean the chestnuts, and then use a knife to make a slit on the surface. Put chestnuts in the pot, add some water, add five spices, and cook for about half an hour.
2、 How to peel Chinese chestnut
（1） Quick peeling method of boiled chestnut
1. Before cooking, use a knife to make a cross opening on the chestnut. After cooking, the chestnut skin will open and peel easily.
2. Boil the chestnuts with water, pour them into cold water and soak them for 10 or 20 seconds, then pull them up and drain them. The chestnuts will shrink when they are cold, so they can be easily removed. In the same way, it's OK to put it into the refrigerator for quick freezing after cooking, and the frozen chestnuts have a different flavor.
（2） How to peel cooked chestnut
Method 1, refrigerator freezing: after the chestnuts are cooked, they are cooled and frozen in the refrigerator for two hours to separate the shell and meat. In this way, the chestnut clothes can be peeled quickly and the chestnut meat is complete.
Peel method 2, hot expansion and cold shrinkage method: after the chestnut is cooked, cut a small mouth on its body, soak in boiling water for about one minute, and peel from the incision. Principle: after high temperature expansion, nuts and skins are easy to separate, and boiled eggs are quickly put in cold water to peel.
（3） How to peel raw chestnut
Peel method 1. Hot water immersion method: wash the raw chestnuts and put them into a basin, add a little salt, soak them in boiling water and cover the pot. 5 minutes later, take out the chestnut and cut it. The chestnut skin will fall off with the chestnut shell. This method can save time and effort.
Peel method 2. Microwave heating method: cut the shell of the purchased raw chestnut with scissors, put it in the microwave oven and heat it for 30 seconds at high temperature, and the inner layer of clothes and meat will automatically separate. Before using this method to remove chestnut clothes, it is necessary to cut off the shell, otherwise it may cause microwave oven failure.
Peeling method 3. Cooking chestnut in pressure cooker: wash chestnut with water, then put it into pressure cooker wet, remember, don't add any more water, just like this, then turn on the fire, use a small fire (turn down the whole circle of fire), so that the bottom of the pot can be heated evenly, put the pressure cooker on to heat, heat for a while, about three minutes, shake the pot, so on In order to heat the chestnut evenly. When the pressure cooker gets angry, you should always shake it. Because it's already very hot at this time. When it's about ten minutes, you will hear the sound of chestnut popping in the cooker. In this way, you can turn off the fire and simmer for another five minutes. Turn the cooker on and cool it down.
Skin removal method 4, sun exposure method: put the raw chestnut to eat in the sun for a day, and the chestnut shell will crack. At this time, it's easy to peel off the shell and the thin layer inside the chestnut, whether raw or boiled. However, the chestnuts to be stored cannot be dried in the sun, because the chestnuts can not be preserved for a long time.