Autumn is the harvest season, the fields are golden, the chestnuts that spread over the mountains are the time of ripening, and the chestnuts with dense openings are like smiling faces, greeting our arrival.
Author Ding Liping
At the beginning of April, when the chestnuts bloom, a piece of white velvet that comes into view is like the tentacles of a snail, and the flowers that look like needles emit a sweet and refreshing fragrance that floats in all directions along the mountain wind. The chestnut that has just turned out is like a small ball, its thorns are soft, and after the rain of the day, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, the soft thorns gradually become hard steel needles, like a small hedgehog curled up into a ball.
The shell of the chestnut completely cracked when it hit the ground, revealing a shiny brown flesh. Chestnut roast meat is a delicacy that is washed with the finest pork belly, boiled in a pot to remove the bloody taste, and cut into 3 cm square pieces with a knife.
Cut the chestnuts in two, blanch them in a pot of boiling water, shell them, heat the salad oil until they are seven ripe, and remove them when the chestnuts are fried yellow.
Put fresh soup in the pot, add meat pieces to boil, add cooking wine, skim off the foam and then add the onion and ginger soy sauce salt, simmer over low heat for eight matures, add rock sugar and chestnuts and cook together. When the chestnuts are cooked thoroughly and the soup is thick, remove the onion and ginger and put them on the plate.
Chestnuts have many therapeutic effects, can supply the human body with more heat energy, and can help fat metabolism, with the effect of strengthening the spleen and thickening the gastrointestinal tract. It is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, a variety of vitamins and minerals, which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis. Chestnuts are also rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal function of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles, and can prevent and treat osteoporosis, waist and leg soreness, muscle and bone pain, fatigue, etc., and delay human aging.
Chestnuts are known as the "King of a Thousand Fruits". When chestnuts are on the market, sweet and delicious chestnuts are not only a good food, but also a "tonic" that benefits the kidneys. Chestnuts can be eaten raw, stir-fried, stewed, etc., especially the hot sugar fried chestnuts, its aroma is more attractive. Chew the chestnuts raw and feel a sweet taste slowly spreading down your tongue in your mouth. Whether it is eaten raw or fried or simmered, it must be chewed carefully and swallowed with jin liquid to achieve a better tonic effect. It can be said that:
Do not compete for fertile soil to stand on the slope, after a hundred flowers after the summer fragrance.
The golden pole and silver branches are proud of the sun, and the chestnut purple jade is shining pearls.
The thousand-year-old city is leisurely and prosperous
About author:Ding Liping, born in 1966, graduated from Zhejiang Shangyu Fenghui Middle School, worked in Fenghui Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and is now retired.