Boiled chestnuts. How and how much to cook chestnuts

Try it once and you'll be ready to eat them daily! Ease of preparation Chestnuts are a national dish in France, and the French are known to know a lot about food. Having tried boiled chestnuts once, I am ready to eat them at least daily.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 1 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 91 % 10 g
45 kcal
GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Chestnuts are a very useful product containing vitamins A, C and group B, as well as various minerals and fiber. However, if you are watching your weight, you should not abuse chestnut dishes, because they contain a huge amount of calories.
There are several varieties of chestnut trees. Edible chestnuts grow in Europe, Asia and North America. Of course, you can not eat wild chestnuts that grow on the territory of our country – it is not only not tasty, but also unsafe.
Chestnuts intended for cooking can be purchased at a large grocery supermarket.
There are various ways of cooking chestnuts, but the simplest recipe is boiled chestnuts.
To begin with, boil water. Cut the chestnuts on both sides and throw them into boiling water. We also add spices and salt there.
It takes about 40 minutes to cook chestnuts. Then we drain the water and enjoy!

The caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Chestnut noble fresh - 194   kcal/100g
  • Dried noble chestnut - 377   kcal/100g
  • Boiled chestnuts - 131   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Rosemary - 131   kcal/100g
  • Celery - 12   kcal/100g
  • Celery Roots - 32   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g

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