The weather is getting cooler and autumn is getting stronger
It is the season when chestnuts are on the market in large numbers
Xiaobian has long been unable to hold back
So what about this year's chestnut production and what is the price?
With these questions in mind, I visited a small shop of sugar fried chestnuts on the street
How chestnuts are sold this year
Xiaobian learned from the chain chestnut brand store Xinli Wang Xinzhuang store that this year's chestnut production has generally decreased, so the price has increased compared with last year, and the average market price is about 21 yuan / 500 grams.
According to the clerk, although the chestnut is the hot season, it is not a long queue, and the evening peak time is the time when the most people buy chestnuts, and the popular shops may need to wait for a while.
It takes 40-50 minutes to fry a pot of chestnuts, and the most customers will even buy a pot of 20 pounds of chestnuts.
Excellent chestnuts what it looks like
Sugar-fried chestnuts are generally fried by machine
Add stones in a wok and stir-fry along with chestnuts
"Why do you want to put sand on fried chestnuts?"
Yeah, why?
Why don't you put sand in the pot next to the fried peanuts and melon seeds?
The reason is simple: the chestnuts are too big.
It also heats the chestnuts evenly
And excellent chestnuts need to meet the standard of soft glutinous sweetness.
Easy to peel, the flesh is not sticky to the shell
The pulp has moisture and at the same time has a chestnut aroma
The chestnut shell has a shiny but non-sticky hand
This is a standard sugar and excellent sugar fried chestnuts
In order to meet the standard of high-quality chestnuts, the method of frying chestnuts and the temperature need to be carefully controlled, which has become the signature secret recipe of every sugar roasted chestnut shop owner.
Where did the little chestnut come from
At present, the chestnuts on the market are most famous in Hebei Qianxi, and the area around Qianxi County in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, is known as the hometown of chestnuts, and has a history of chestnut cultivation for more than 2,000 years. Qianxi chestnut has a delicate shape, reddish brown, a shallow waxy layer, bright and lustrous; the nuts are beige, the inner skin is easy to peel, the flesh is delicate, the waxy sticky soft, sweet and fragrant, the quality has been recognized by the market.
Chestnut size is learned
Large chestnuts are not suitable for making sugar-fried chestnuts, but are suitable for steaming. Because in the process of stir-frying, the large chestnut is easy to open, so that although it is convenient to peel and eat, it is also easily contaminated by the stones in the wok and is not hygienic.
It is also recommended to peel chestnuts with your hands as much as possible when eating them, rather than biting them with your mouth. Make a small opening at the top of the chestnut, gently pinch the ends of the chestnut with your index finger and thumb, and the yellow chestnut flesh will come out.
Except for the fried chestnuts on the street
You can also make a chestnut soup, or a small snack or something
Oh
Come and try a snack made of chestnuts!
Osmanthus chestnut soup
· Ingredients ·
5 chestnut |
· Excipients ·
Osmanthus | 1 teaspoon
Lotus powder | 15g
| amount of rock sugar
2 bowls of water |
· Doing ·
1. Cut the top of the raw chestnut into crosses, boil in boiling water until soft, peel and cut into small particles and set aside.
2. Add water to the pot and add rock sugar and cook until melted.
3. Add osmanthus and chestnut kernels to a boil.
4. Stir the lotus powder with a small amount of cold water, pour in the lotus powder liquid while stirring, stir until it is mushy and turn off the heat.
5. The boiled osmanthus chestnut soup is sweet and sweet, so delicious!
Yam chestnut cake
Yam | 150g
Chestnut | 10 pieces
Milk | 50g
Butter | 8g
Sesame seeds | to taste
1. Peel the yam, soak in vinegar and water for 5 to 6 minutes, then cut into chunks; slice the chestnuts.
2. Bring water to a boil, add chestnuts and yam, then continue steaming for 20 minutes.
3. Stir-fry the sesame seeds over low heat until browned.
4. Pour the steamed yam into a grinder and crush it into a puree, add milk to the chestnuts and beat them into a blender.
5. Stir-fry the minced chestnuts over low heat in butter for about 3 minutes.
6. Wet your hands, take a lump of yam puree, roll into a ball and flatten it, wrap in chestnut filling and roll into a cake.
7. Just wrap in sesame seeds and make the fragrant yam chestnut cake
Chestnut roasted chicken wings
Chicken wings/chestnuts/shallots, ginger and garlic
Light soy sauce / dark soy sauce / salt / cooking wine
Rock sugar/star anise/pepper/oil
1. Slice the ginger and garlic and chop the green onion.
2. Cut a knife into the chestnut shell.
3. Cook in a pot on high heat for 5 minutes, then remove, cool and peel and peel.
4. Chicken wings are all in two, afraid of chopping hands can omit this step.
5. Pour a little oil into the pan, add the chicken wings and fry over medium-low heat until brownish on both sides.
6. Add ginger, garlic, peppercorns, star anise and rock sugar and sauté until fragrant.
7. Add soy sauce, soy sauce and cooking wine.
8. Pour in the appropriate amount of boiling water, pour in the chestnuts, bring to a boil on high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer for about 30 minutes.
9. Season with salt when the soup is thick, sprinkle with green onion and out of the pan.
There are vegetables, there are soups, there are cookies
It is also necessary to raise eyebrows with the rice case
Chestnut ribs stewed rice
material
Ribs 300g / Chestnuts 300g / Dried Shiitake Mushrooms 8 pcs
1 cup rice / 1/1 cup glutinous rice / 2 dried chili peppers
1 piece of cinnamon / 1 piece of star anise / 1 piece of incense leaf
seasoning
3 scoops light soy sauce / 1 scoop of dark soy sauce / 1 scoop of cooking wine
1 scoop of oyster sauce / 1/2 tablespoon of sugar / sesame oil to taste / salt to taste
▼ 1. Steeping: After mixing glutinous rice and rice, soak in cold water, dried shiitake mushrooms and soak in water, chestnuts and water soak.
▼ 2. Blanched pork ribs: Pour cold water and add ribs to a pot and cook.
After boiling water, cook for another two minutes, remove the ribs and wash them with warm water.
▼ 3. Stir-fried pork ribs: Heat the pan with cold oil, add garlic and ginger slices and sauté until fragrant.
When you smell the aroma, pour in the blanched ribs and stir-fry.
Pour in the hot water that has not been ribs, add 3 spoonfuls of light soy sauce, 1 spoonful of dark soy sauce, 1/2 spoon of sugar, and 1 spoonful of cooking wine. Taste salty and add salt to an appropriate amount.
▼ 4. Ingredients: Add chestnuts and sliced shiitake mushrooms.
Add 1 cinnamon, 1 star anise, 1 fragrant leaf, 2 dried chili peppers (everything is 2) and cook for 15 minutes over medium heat.
▼ 5. Cooking: Drain the rice and put it in the rice cooker.
The surface is covered with ribs, shiitake mushrooms and chestnuts.
Pour in the broth.
The soup is a little less than the grain of rice, and then turn on the cooking function.
Mix well with 1 spoonful of oyster sauce and a little sesame oil and simmer for another 10 minutes.
▼ 6. Finish: Decorate with green onions and make a fragrant stew.
It is most reassuring to hand over the meat to the chestnuts
The chestnuts in the mouth are a fresh and sweet sauce
After biting open, it is powdery and sticky
It also has its own sweet taste.
Heart-warming tips:
The health benefits of chestnuts
Prevent mouth ulcers
Chestnuts contain riboflavin, and eating chestnuts often is beneficial for children with mouth and tongue sores and adult mouth ulcers that are difficult to heal.
Healthy spleen and stomach
Chestnuts are dried fruit varieties with high carbohydrate content, which can supply more heat energy to the human body, and can help fat metabolism, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and thickening the gastrointestinal tract.
Prevent osteoporosis
Chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, which can maintain the normal function of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles, can prevent and treat osteoporosis, waist and leg soreness, muscle and bone pain, fatigue, etc., delaying human aging.
Eat chestnuts to pay attention to these
Chestnuts are "extremely difficult to grow, ripe and easy to stagnate", weak spleen and stomach, indigestion or rheumatism should not eat chestnuts raw.
Do not eat too much at a time, otherwise it will cause bloating. Chestnuts are both nourishing and delicious, but do not eat too much at a time.
Fresh chestnuts are easy to deteriorate and rot, and spoiled and moldy chestnuts should not be eaten, which will cause poisoning.
When preserving chestnuts, place them in a dry and ventilated place, paying attention to prevent mildew.
Reporter: Mao Haiping
Intern: Li Wantong
Editor: Mao Haiping
Part of the content source: CCTV went home for dinner