Hi all, anyone got any ideas wot to do with chestnuts apart from the usual chuckin em on the fire to roast! if i boil them first and shell them can anything be made with them? thanx ;D
Hugh F-W, tonight Ch 4, Marron Glace, looked pretty good.
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/marrons-glace-recipe_p_1.html
You can make chestnut jam. You need the shelled flesh, well cooked, and rubbed through a sieve to make a fine puree. Add the juice of 2 large lemons to each 500g of chestnut puree, and add 500g sugar. Cook up to 105 degrees in a thick bottomed pan, preferaby with heat diffuser under.
they used to sell a mix of sprouts with chestnuts frozen. I liked the chestnuts better than the frozen sprouts.
It is supposed to be delish cooked and made into a puree sweetened to taste with ice cream (chestnuts-not-sprouts) had a recipe once and seem to remember it said mix chestnut puree with condensed milk, then make ice cream with the mix. Forgot the rest.
Chestnut stuffing for your Christmas turkey... yum, double yum... qahtan